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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Amy Kaufman

Angela Bassett, Laura Dern talk nudity on set post-#MeToo, learning how to slow down

LOS ANGELES — When a role in a film requires nudity, many performers hesitate to take on the part. Can we use a body double? What if the revealing scene is captured online and becomes easily searchable? What will my parents think!?

And imagine that the part in question doesn't just call for showing, say, the top third of one's buttocks. What if the script includes a sequence where a character dances fully naked in the rain? No nipple covers, no body stockings, no nothing.

Yes, Emma Corrin found this very prospect "completely terrifying." But it was also the precise reason they signed on to make "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

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