LOS ANGELES, Oct 6 — Jessica Chastain found James McAvoy “super, super funny” on the set of their new movie.

The 37-year-old co-stars with the Scottish actor in “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby”. But despite the film being a drama, Jessica sometimes felt she was in a comedy because of the 35-year-old.

“I actually had difficulty keeping a straight face [on set] especially because James McAvoy is super, super funny, and he improvises a lot,” she explained to the October issue of Interview magazine. “There’s a lot of me breaking, but doing it in character that actually made it into the film.”

The “Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” is broken into three films, Him, Her and Them. All of them follow the same time period, but are told from the differing perspectives of Connor Ludlow (James) and Eleanor Rigby (Jessica), a young married couple living in New York.

For Jessica, who is best known for serious roles in films like “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Debt”, it was great to work with someone like James who put the fun into every scene they did together.

“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,” she recalled. “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.” — Cover Media