Emma Thompson: Its Very Challenging to Be Nude at 62

June 2024 · 3 minute read

Stripping down in her sixties. Emma Thompson got real about embracing nude scenes for her new movie, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. 

“It’s very challenging to be nude at 62,” the actress mentioned all over a Cinema Cafe livestream for Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, January 22. 

But given that her personality, Nancy Stokes, is a “widow yearning for some journey, human connections and just right sex,” getting naked was once inherent to the script. “She stands in front a replicate alone and she drops her gown,” Thompson recalled. 

While the superstar defined that rehearsing within the nude and being open about her dating with her frame used to be helpful, she shared that the “dreadful demands” on ladies — in the real global and in Hollywood — don’t make nude scenes any more uncomplicated. 

“This thing of having to be skinny is still the similar as it ever was and if truth be told, in some ways, I think it’s worse now,” the actress said.  

But even with external components to care for and expectancies from society, Thompson doesn’t assume she would have embraced nudity on display at some other degree in her lifestyles. 

“I don’t assume I could’ve executed it sooner than the age that I am,” she mentioned within the interview. “And but, of course, the age that I am makes it extraordinarily challenging because we aren’t used to seeing untreated bodies at the screen.” 

While the actress made some degree to strip down sans filters for her 2022 movie, which is these days in theaters, she had the other revel in while filming Cruella. 

In fact, Thompson had to put on so much shapewear and such excessive undergarments for the role, that she likened her outfit to a real “torture item.” 

The celebrity, who played Baroness in the Disney movie, used to be dressed in “business” underwear that helped shape her figure a definite means. 

“I mean I don’t like undies complete forestall. I mean, I stopped wearing it a very long time ago. It’s no longer my scene,” she joked in a May 2021 interview with Lorraine. “I don’t like comfy lingerie. I to find comfortable undies uncomfortable.” 

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Given her aversion to undergarments, the super-charged variations she was once anticipated to wear were the equivalent of “the fourth bridge” to Thompson. 

“It’s like squeezing a tube of toothpaste in the center. If you squeeze it hard sufficient then issues will arise and go down and mark the shapes,” she explained. “It’s like you’re coping with a plasticine individual.” 

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