Jana Kramer Says Husband Allan Russell Was Joking About Intimate Scene Ban
Jana Kramer is defending her husband Allan Russell after feedback he made final yr prompted controversy.
Chatting with E! Information on Friday, June 6, the One Tree Hill alum insisted that Russell wasn’t being severe when he mentioned he wouldn’t let her movie intercourse scenes with one other man.
“He was joking,” Kramer, 41, instructed the outlet. “There’s a dialog with each [job] we take. It’s the identical factor along with his line of labor.”
The actress continued, “That’s what marriage is — it’s a dialog. It’s not like, ‘No, you can’t do that.’ I don’t suppose that’s wholesome.”
Jana Kramer couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about her upcoming nuptials to fiancé Allan Russell. Kramer, 40, solely shared particulars about her wedding ceremony whereas chatting with Us Weekly on Tuesday, June 4, about her new film, Gaslit by My Husband. “[It’s going to be] very, very, very small [in Scotland],” she mentioned “Like, tremendous, tremendous, tremendous, […]
Russell, 44, initially made the feedback in December 2024 whereas discussing an intimate scene between Jamie (Wes Bentley) and Sarah (Daybreak Olivieri) featured on Yellowstone season 5.
He admitted on Kramer’s “Whine Down” podcast that he wouldn’t really feel comfy if Kramer took on a task that concerned intimate intercourse scenes.
“I used to be similar to, ‘There’s not a part of me that can ever, ever, ever enable that, ever, for a person to be that near you want that [on set],” he mentioned.
Allan Russell and Jana Kramer. (Photograph by Jason Kempin/Getty Photographs for Boot Barn)
When Russell was requested by Kramer if he would make an exception for a present similar to Yellowstone, Russell nonetheless wasn’t backing down when it got here to his opinion.
“I’ll be, like, phoning the producers and threatening the producers [like], ‘It’s good to change that scene. For the nice of your well being, it is advisable to change this scene,’” he acknowledged.
Russell additionally mentioned on the podcast that he didn’t suppose actors filming intercourse scenes was “wholesome for any relationship.”
He added: “That’s not good for a wedding, that sort of position, it’s not, particularly [for] a person who’s not within the performing world. It’s tough. So, subsequently, that’s my opinion primarily based on [the fact that] I’m not in that world.”
Nevertheless, the next week Russell appeared on the “Whine Down” podcast once more to make clear his feedback.
“If the chance is sweet on your profession, then it’s clearly a marital dialogue,” he defined. “And hear, for those who really feel it’s good on your profession, then I’m by no means gonna maintain you again from doing one thing. You realize that.”
Kramer and Russell introduced their engagement in Could 2023 — six months after they began relationship. The couple welcomed their first little one collectively, a son named Roman, in November that very same yr and tied the knot in July 2024. Kramer additionally shares two children: Jolie, 9, and Jace, 6, together with her ex-husband Mike Caussin.