Will Smith's wife helped him overcome sex scene fears

Unlike many women, Jada Pinkett-Smith actually encouraged her actor husband Will to shed all fears and get as hot and heavy as possible in his love scene for film Seven Pounds.

She did so because she wanted to protect her own reputation.

The I Am Legend actor could be seen doing a racy romp with stunning Rosario Dawson in the film.

"Jada said, 'Listen, make sure you don't embarrass me. She said women forever are going to be looking at this love scene and they're going to decide whether you can go or not. So don't be holding back, don't embarrass me,'" Fox News quoted Will Smith as telling how his wife encouraged him for the sexy scene.

The lovemaking sequence is just the second sex scene Smith has done in his entire acting career, after showing off his bedroom antics with Pinkett herself in Ali.

And thus, Smith was a bunch of nerves before going all the way to do a racy scene with Dawson.

"Will wouldn't start kissing for weeks," Dawson revealed to the L.A Times.

She added: "It would be on the schedule, we'd have lights and everything set up, and he would end up being like, 'I'm not feeling it tonight. I don't think it's going to happen. Let's wait another week.' I was checking my breath, smelling myself, trying to see Am I offending the man in some way?”