Jennifer Lawrence says male co-stars she 'didn't want to sleep with' would 'punish' her

Jennifer Lawrence has made a bombshell claim about some of the male actors she's worked with throughout her film career, revealing they would 'punish' her for not wanting to be intimate with them.

The Hunger Games actress opened up about her experiences working on set with male co-stars while discussing her new movie Die My Love, in which she stars opposite Twilight actor Robert Pattinson.

Lawrence and Pattison portray couple, Grace and Jackson, in the dark comedy-drama, which explores the early days of parenthood and the difficulty of keeping a relationship afloat after starting a family.

The 35-year-old actress explained why an intimacy coordinator wasn't necessary on the set of Die My Love, before praising Pattison, 39, for not being like other male actors she has encountered, who turned on her when she expressed no desire to sleep with them.

Lawrence told the Las Culturistas podcast: "We did not have [an intimacy coordinator], or maybe we did but we didn’t really… I felt really safe with Rob. He is not pervy and very in love with Suki [Waterhouse].

"We mostly were just talking about our kids and our relationships."

She went on to reveal that an intimacy coordinator probably would have been introduced had there been any feeling of discomfort between her and Pattison while filming, before then proceeding to drop her major bombshell.

"So there wasn’t any weird like, 'Does he think I like him?' If there was a little bit of that I would probably have an intimacy coordinator," Lawrence continued.

Jennifer Lawrence has opened up about the male co-stars she's worked with in the past (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

"A lot of male actors get offended if you don’t want to f**k them, and then the punishment starts.

"He was not like that."

Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, hosts of Las Culturistas, were understandably stunned by Lawrence's shock confession on the podcast, with Rogers jokingly saying it is 'just a little cute social experiment'.

This prompted mum-of-two Lawrence to take on an exaggerated serious tone and quip: "I've just heard of this, I've never experienced it..."

Lawrence stars in Die My Love with Robert Pattinson (Valerie Terranova/WireImage)

Elsewhere during the interview, the Die My Love actress revealed she and co-star Pattison didn't really know one another before shooting the new movie together.

However, he seemed to have left a positive impression on the star.

The X-Men star said Batman actor Pattison was 'exactly what you would imagine', describing him as a 'folksy British guy' who is 'sweet' and 'not dramatic', adding that he is 'laid back'.

Die My Love, directed and written by Lynne Ramsay, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and was released in UK cinemas on 7 November.