“It was out of pity and I was, like, the 45th actor to be offered the role. After everyone heard they had to be naked with Annie they just started turning it down… just kidding.

“It was just a lot of different things [that drew me to it]. I’ve always wanted to get naked in a movie with Annie again and I felt like this was an opportunity to help her.”

Gyllenhaal, 29, stars with the actress in new flick ‘Love and Other Drugs,’ where they play a pair of mismatched lovers who end up in bed for a large part of the movie.

He said to UK’s Esquire magazine: “We talked about what we thought was sexy, about what were the things that interested us, and through the discussion became pretty intimate with each other.”

He added: “There’s something about the way Annie and I both work which is inherently very musical. It’s all about rhythm. There’s a rhythm to writing, there’s a rhythm to sports, there’s a rhythm to sex.”

Source : HollywoodNews.com