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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ellie Muir

Dame Joan Collins says she had to get ‘plastered’ before performing intimate scenes

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Dame Joan Collins has reflected on being encouraged to get “plastered” while performing sex scenes in a pre-Me Too film industry.

In a new interview, the 91-year-old actor recalled working on the 1970s films The Stud and The B****, for which she had to get “so drunk” before performing intimate scenes. The Stud, released in 1978 and written by her sister Jackie Collins, follows Fontaine Khaled (played by Collins), the wife of a wealthy businessman who spends her husband’s money on her nightclub.

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