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| A new documentary called "Body Parts" explores the behind-the-scenes problems with shooting sex and nudity in Hollywood films. |
The NY Post wrote an article about the dark side of the Hollywood film industry, how sex scenes are shot and directed. Here is what NY Post reports :
A new
documentary called “Body Parts” that premiered Sunday at the Tribeca Film
Festival exposes the frightening and vulnerable position actresses have been
put in for decades on sets run by powerful male directors.
Steamy sex
scenes, they insist, are anything but sexy.
Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna
Arquette recalled that her first nude shoot, in the 1981 comedy “S.O.B.,” was
never meant to happen. When she took the role, the actress said, the intimate
moment was not mentioned in her contract.
Then the
cameras rolled.
“Let’s just
lose the bikini top,” Arquette, 62, remembers famed director Blake Edwards,
whose wife Julie Andrews also went topless in the movie, telling her surrounded
by crew and fellow actors, such as William Holden and Robert Preston. She
added: “I was 19 at the time.”
Rose McGowan
said that it was completely normal for filmmakers to even hold day-long bikini
casting calls.
“They would
write a role for a girl in a bikini for no apparent reason,” the actress, 48,
said, adding that it was a pervy excuse for the creative team to get together
and watch a parade of scantily clad women.
Jane Fonda was forced to be nuder than she wanted to be in the sexually charged 1968 film “Barbarella.”
Jane Fonda
remembered that she first personally dealt with on-screen nudity when she moved
to more permissive France in the 1960s.
There she
met director Roger Vadim, who directed 1960’s “Blood and Roses” and was
previously married to Brigitte Bardot and partnered with Catherine Deneuve.
Vadim and Fonda wedded in 1965 and three years later, he cast her in
“Barbarella,” a sexually charged film about an astronaut. Lines of trust were
crossed, she said, even for a husband and wife.
“Roger
promised me that he would use the letters in the titles to cover the important
things,” Fonda, 84, said of the risque opening credit sequence in which she
strips. “Which was only partly [true].”
As the
actress floats in midair, viewers can clearly see her breasts. “I was 30 — I
should’ve known better,” she added. The pair divorced in 1973.
Another
little-known fact about Tinseltown’s titillating moments is that body doubles
often stand in for a star’s naked persona. One double says in the movie that
“America would be shocked” by how often audiences are not actually seeing the
celeb’s actual skin.
Another
double is still in a lather over history’s most famous shower scene.
Marli
Renfro, 84, played a clothes-less Marion Crane (otherwise performed by Janet
Leigh) in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” in 1960.
“That’s the
back of my head, my hands, my arms, my belly button,” she fumed in the doc.
“Janet Leigh wrote her autobiography and let on that she did the whole thing.
Pissed me off!”
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