Emma Thompson, 62, Says Shooting Nude Scenes Is ‘Very Challenging’
24.01.2022 - 21:49
/ usmagazine.com
Stripping down in her sixties. Emma Thompson got real about embracing nude scenes for her new movie, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.
“It’s very challenging to be nude at 62,” the actress said during a Cinema Cafe livestream for Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, January 22.
But given that her character, Nancy Stokes, is a “widow yearning for some adventure, human connections and good sex,” getting naked was inherent to the script. “She stands in front a mirror alone and she drops her robe,” Thompson recalled.
While the star explained that rehearsing in the nude and being open about her relationship with her body was helpful, she shared that the “dreadful demands” on women — in the real world and in Hollywood — don’t make nude scenes any easier.
“This thing of having to be thin is still the same as it ever was and actually, in some ways, I think it’s worse now,” the actress said.
But even with external factors to deal with and expectations from society, Thompson doesn’t think she would have embraced nudity on screen at any other stage in her life.
“I don’t think I could’ve done it before the age that I am,” she said in the interview. “And yet, of course, the age that I am makes it extremely challenging because we aren’t used to seeing untreated bodies on the screen.”
While the actress made a point to strip down sans filters for her 2022 movie, which is currently in theaters, she had the opposite experience while filming Cruella.
In fact, Thompson had to wear so much shapewear and such extreme undergarments for the role, that she likened her outfit to an actual “torture item.”
The star, who played Baroness in the Disney film, was dressed in “industrial” underwear that helped shape her figure a certain way.
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