Anne Hathaway wasn’t the least bit taken aback when her ‘Brokeback Mountain’ co-star Jake Gyllenhaal asked if he could get more intimate with her onscreen – because he wanted the shot to look real.

Hathaway, in an interview with radio station Heart revealed that like most male stars, Gyllenhaal had wanted to make their love scene in the movie as real as possible.

"Sometimes you work with actors, and they can be lovely guys, but they have kind of dodgy instincts when it comes to kissing in scenes. They want to try to make it look a bit too real if you know what I mean," The Sun quoted her, telling the station.

"There was this scene in Brokeback Mountain where I get my kit off and I'm in the car with Jake Gyllenhaal and he's touched my shoulder and he's touched my stomach and he's touched around my back. Everywhere except for, you know, 'the girls'.

"So the director yells cut and we go behind a screen and I'm putting my clothes back on and Jake comes up to me and says: 'Annie, the thing is, the scene, in real life I would… and the director's not yelling cut, so… can I?'

"I just turned to him and said: 'It's okay Jake, yes, you can touch my boobs,'" she said.

However, one actor with whom she had a far different experience was her ‘Becoming Jane’ co-star James McAvoy.

"With James, right before we started he turned to me and said 'closed mouths, no tongue' and that's what I normally say to people - so it was a pleasure," she said.