“And he’s learned that it’s really tough, and the more men that do it… And men are also really worried about how their bodies look. “To see this man terrified of being naked when Evan Rachel Wood and I have grown accustomed to it, sitting there, having a chat, a glass of water, totally naked, it was very touching,” she said. The actress also pointed out that in contrast to her female costars, when many of the men on Westworld are asked to do a nude scene, they are comfortable vocalizing any insecurities they have concerning their bodies. “I’ve had terrible things happen, so to be able to say to the showrunners of Westworld, ‘I am willing to stand for 75 percent of this season totally naked’ because it wasn’t a sexual context ,” Newton declared. “When in fact they’re shooting from here,” she said, indicating her entire body, “so you see everything.” “I’ve been objectified, I’ve had directors lie to me when I’m in a naked situation on a movie and been told that they’re cutting here,” Newton explained, motioning from her bust to the top of her head. “But that’s why I took the show,” she continued. “And just being aware of his vulnerability … What I love about Westworld is that it’s showing the vulnerability and the objectification of a person, and if you see a person naked and not in a sexual context, suddenly you don’t want to look.” He decided to go for it,” Newton explained to the table. “With the season premiere, Simon Quarterman was completely naked, and he was terrified. When responding to the moderator’s question of what it is like to be a woman who is constantly asked to perform scenes in the nude, Newton shared an anecdote from the set of season two of Westworld, on which the actress plays an extremely humanlike “host” robot named Maeve (her character is introduced to audiences as a brothel madam and subsequently appears in many scenes with few or no clothes), and how her experience has differed from that of her male costars. The likelihood of a woman appearing nude onscreen is almost three times as likely as a man appearing nude in Hollywood films, according to a report from The Guardian. Hear, hear.On Wednesday, Thandie Newton, the highlight of HBO’s mystifying Westworld, was featured in The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual roundtable conversation for dramatic actresses, and she shared some tough truths about gender bias in Hollywood.Īs part of a conversation that included Angela Bassett, Claire Foy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Elisabeth Moss, and Sandra Oh, Newton joined her fellow actresses to participate in a dialogue about inequality in the industry-particularly discussing the wage gap for television actresses and the thorny intricacies of onscreen nudity. "They weren’t waxing and stripping and plucking!"Īnother reason? Apparently it takes 45 minutes to apply a merkin, and Newton just wants to head home to chill with her 2-year-old. "The prairie, the wide-open prairie!" Newton said. No one was getting waxed back in those wild days, and when characters are seen nude, it's with full-on pubic hair-or, yep, in some cases, a merkin. She also rightly pointed out that hey, the show is set in the Old West. "I didn’t need the merkin because I don’t alter anything-full ‘70s bush," she announced on the show. Handy, that is, unless you're Newton, the proud owner of a bush all her own. Should a lady choose to go bare down there but then need to have a little bush going on for, say, their character's nude scene on a hit HBO show, a merkin comes in handy. In case you don't know what this delightful word means, it is a pubic wig. But she hilariously opened up on the BBC's The Graham Norton Show on Friday about one aspect of her costume: namely, her merkin-or lack thereof. Westworld is now on season two, and because this is HBO and nudity is a given, Newton still does nude scenes in the show. Coincidentally, this happens to be when she's nude-her "natural state"-versus the brothel-madam costume designed to objectify her for the park's visitors. After becoming sentient, aware of her status as a robot and that, in her previous "life," she'd had a "daughter," she begins to rebel while she's being "reprogrammed" at night. During the first season, she plays Maeve, a humanoid robot who was programmed to be a brothel owner and sex worker in the very weird Old West town/amusement park. Thandie Newton isn't afraid of nude scenes on her show, HBO's hit Westworld.
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