The 37-year-old actress Jessica Chastain appears alongside the Scottish actor in 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby'.
She said that she felt working with him was like ‘celebrating life’. She apparently got a case of he giggles while she was shooitng sceens with him, however tried her best to hod it in as it added to their on screen rapport.
She recalled: "I actually had difficulty keeping a straight face especially because James McAvoy is super, super funny, and he improvs a lot.
"There's a lot of me breaking, but doing it in character that actually made it into the film. There's a scene where we're kissing in the car and he's putting my bra on me. He says something like, 'I think I've been programmed to not be able to do this.' And he starts going off about how he only knows how to take off a bra.
"I looked at him, like, 'You're so stupid,' and started laughing. That's in the film. James has so much lightness and love around him that, even when we were working on the difficult, sad scenes, between takes we had a feeling of celebrating life."
Chastain is notorious for her darker roles in films such as Zero Dark Thirty and The Debt, and often carries the emotion she is experiencing on set through to her characters.
She told Interview magazine: "With any kind of acting, you're basically living the emotion that you're going to work in every day, so sometimes I'm like, 'I am so tired of crying, how great would it be to experience joy and laughter every day?'."
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