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."
"There was nothing about that that you could possibly fake," said Corrin, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. "It felt really bold — and it felt terrifying — but very enticing."
After an award-winning turn as Princess Diana on the fourth season of "The Crown," Corrin is now appearing in their first major film roles. This fall, they appear in two movies: "Lady Chatterley's Lover," a fresh adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's 1928 tale of an unhappily married woman who begins a clandestine affair, and "My Policeman," where their character is the one being cheated on by a husband grappling with his sexuality in 1950s Britain.
In late October, Corrin joined five peers on The Envelope's Actress Roundtable to discuss their turns in some of the season's most acclaimed films. The young star was joined by Angela Bassett, the veteran 64-year-old performer who reprises her role as the Queen of Wakanda in the sequel "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" — this time grieving the loss of her son with the death of Chadwick Boseman; the Ireland-bred Kerry Condon, 39, who plays
