Jessica Biel’s ‘Close Encounter’ With Adam Sandler

When you play someone who’s pretending to be gay, like Adam Sandler does in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry,” you can stare at Jessica Biel all you want.

In fact, you can do more than that!

Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson spoke to Jessica about a comical scene in “Chuck & Larry,” in which Sandler gets a “handful” of Jessica’s anatomy.

“You know, I didn’t really have to do any sort of mental preparation for that scene because we became such nice friends,” said Jessica. “It was funny and it was silly and we knew what was gonna happen.”

Laughter proved to be the perfect distraction for Sandler and Biel when they shot the scene.

“We just laughed our way through the day, basically,” Jessica said. “He was feeling weird, and I was feeling weird, and, I mean literally we just giggled.”

The laughing didn’t stop there, as Sandler joked to Shaun, “I’m kind of a germ freak, so I had gloves on the whole time. On camera it looks fine, but mentally I never got a hold of ‘em.”

“He’s wonderful, he’s like the most lovely guy,” Biel said of her co-star. “If anyone’s gonna have to do that to you, it might as well be him.”

And since she had to show some skin in the movie, Biel said she kept in shape by doing lots of yoga and cardio, and worked out with a trainer a couple times a week.

But did Sandler and co-star Kevin James join her in her routines?

“No, I was working out on my own,” she laughed. “I think those guys were playing a lot of basketball. They play a lot of ball.”

Kevin admitted to Access that although he wasn’t in the scene himself, he was “feeling the heat” watching Biel’s scene with Sandler.

“That’s not to say I wasn’t somewhere in the rafters with a pair of binoculars,” he joked.

“I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” opens in theaters on July 20.

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