Expect Gwyneth Paltrow to adhere to her principles.

While she and Ethan Hawke share several tender moments, including some that could be considered intimate, in Alfonso Cuarón‘s 1998 adaptation of Great Expectations, Paltrow declined to participate in what would have been—as the actors described it 27 years later—a much more explicit love scene.

“Do you remember Alfonso pitching you the love scene?” Hawke asked Paltrow in a December conversation for Vanity Fair.

“Oh my god,” she recalled, “he’s like [in the Mexican director’s accent], ‘And then he’s going to go down on you,’ and I was like, ‘Oh my god, my father’s going to have a heart attack!'” (Paltrow was very close to her father, Bruce Paltrow, who passed away in 2002.)

Hawke continued, also mimicking Cuarón (whom he referred to as a “wonderful lunatic”), “‘He’s going to go down on you, the camera’s going to go down your belly, and then it’s going to go up your breasts! And then it’s going to go in your face as you reach ecstasy! And when you reach ecstasy, the light will explode like to the sun!'”

“And,” the Blue Moon star added, “I remember Gwyneth saying, ‘Alfonso, I’m never going to do that.'”