{"id":75209,"date":"2022-01-24T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=75209"},"modified":"2022-01-24T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:18:57","slug":"emma-thompson-confronts-nudity-and-ageing-in-sundance-sex-worker-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=75209","title":{"rendered":"Emma Thompson confronts nudity and ageing in Sundance sex worker comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Emma Thompson's naked scene in her new film about an older woman hiring a sex worker was “probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do,” she told the Sundance film festival Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Oscar-winning actress, 62, stars in “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande” as a repressed former schoolteacher who pays a handsome male escort for the sexual adventures she regrets having shunned as a younger woman.<\/p>\n

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The heartfelt comedy set almost entirely in a hotel room addresses the ethics of sex work and taboos surrounding motherhood and ageing — and sees Thompson tackle several intimate and nude scenes.<\/p>\n

The actors and director rehearsed “entirely nude” and played games that involved discussing their bodies on the scaled-down set in order to build trust.<\/p>\n

Still, “it's very challenging to be nude at 62,” said Thompson.<\/p>\n

“I don't think I could've done it before the age that I am,” she told an online panel.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

In addition to sexual scenes with Daryl McCormack, 29, Thompson's character disrobes before a mirror and looks at her body “in a completely relaxed, un-judgmental way.”<\/p>\n

“I have never done that… She doesn't alter herself, lift herself up, suck her stomach in, turn around or try to alter what she sees,” said Thompson.<\/p>\n

Despite trusting the filmmakers, Thompson said she “still found it fantastically hard to do.”<\/p>\n

“Probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do really — and that's interesting in itself.”<\/p>\n

“That tells the whole story of my life as a woman surrounded by impossible demands and images of bodies,” she said.<\/p>\n

“That's the great tragedy of the female body in the 20th and 21st centuries. And it's a narrative that we absolutely have to change.”<\/p>\n

Earlier Saturday at Sundance, new docuseries “We Need to Talk About Cosby” premiered.<\/p>\n

It focusses on the gulf between Bill Cosby's decades-long status as “America's dad” and long-simmering allegations of serial sexual assault.<\/p>\n

Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, but his conviction was overturned on a technicality last year and he is currently free.<\/p>\n

The series, described by The Hollywood Reporter as a “provocative and important” attempt to spark conversation about the scandal, airs on US network Showtime from January 30.<\/p>\n

Also premiering at Sundance on Saturday was “Sharp Stick,” the first new film in over a decade from “Girls” creator Lena Dunham.<\/p>\n

The Sundance festival runs until January 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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