Dave Franco and Alison Brie Reveal Their Weirdest Notes from Directors During Sex Scenes: 'More Jackrabbit' (Exclusive)
The two premiered their new horror movie 'Together' at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
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Alison Brie and Dave Franco visit the IMDb Portrait Studio at Acura House of Energy on location at Sundance 2025 on Jan. 26, 2025 in Park City, UtahDave Franco and Alison Brie are sharing the last memorable note they received from a director.
The couple recently caught up with PEOPLE at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, ahead of the premiere of their movie Together.
"On Neighbors, I had a sex scene where the director, after the first take, he comes in, he pokes his head in," Franco begins in his recollection.
The actor, 39, remembers being "fully nude" with a sock to maintain his modesty while filming the scene in the all-star 2014 comedy movie directed by Nicholas Stoller.
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Alison Brie and Dave Franco attend the "Together" Premiere during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre on Jan. 26, 2025 in Park City, Utah"He pokes his head and he goes, 'More jackrabbit,' " he continues of the feedback.
Brie chimes in, saying that the note resulted in "a very funny scene."
The Community alum, 42, adds that she received similar feedback from a director while shooting the Netflix comedy series Glow.
"I have to say that actually is funny because in the very first episode of Glow, season one, episode one, the first scene that we ever shot was a sex scene where I, similarly, was fully nude and the note was kind of the same," she says.
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Brie goes on to explain that director Jenji Kohan didn’t necessarily tell her to "jackrabbit," but gave her notes like, "faster, comedy sex." She suspects that her acting was a "little too dramatic" for the scene in the earlier takes.
Together, directed by Michael Shanks, premiered at the film festival on Sunday, Jan. 26.
The horror movie follows Franco and Brie as a couple that moves to the countryside and "triggers a supernatural incident that drastically alters their relationship, existence, and physical form," according to a synopsis.
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Alison Brie and Dave Franco appear in 'Together'The flick marks the duo’s first onscreen return since co-starring in 2017’s The Little Hours and The Disaster Artist. Franco also directed his wife in the 2023 film Somebody I Used to Know.
The pair, who tied the knot in 2017, are no stranger to discussing onscreen sex scenes with one another, as Franco’s 2023 movie ventured into NSFW territory.
Brie explained in a February 2023 interview with Jezebel that having her husband direct her sex scenes "doesn't make Dave and I uncomfortable."
She continued, "We've worked together enough now. The second movie that we did together ever, as actors, was Jeff Baena's The Little Hours, and in that movie, Dave has make-out or sex scenes with three other actors and me. So, I just feel like that was the ripping of the band-aid."
Together does not yet have a release date.
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