Dame Helen: I hate nude scenes being posted online
DAME Helen Mirren has hit out at people posting images of her nude scenes online and claimed that “privacy is completely gone”.
The Oscar-winning actress has stripped off for many roles throughout her career, in films such as Caligula (1979), Hussy (1980), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) and Calendar Girls (2003).
But now the 72-year-old has shared her anger over studio bosses no longer appearing to care about stars’ privacy.
“There used to be an understanding of privacy. There is no understanding now. Privacy is completely gone,” said the star of The Queen. Random people taking photos, emails being people doing screen grabs…”
“It used to be if you did a nude scene, for example, closed set, no photography. Now they take a screenshot from the movie and put it on the internet for everybody to see.”
Despite the number of times she has disrobed on-camera, Dame Helen insisted she has never made a conscious choice to pick roles that call for raunchy scenes. “I always hated doing sex scenes,” she said.
She also said the increasing popularity of streaming giants such as Netflix hacked, Long exposure... from left to right, Dame Helen in Caligula, Hussy, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Nude scenes are now ‘put on the internet for everyone to see’, says the Oscar winner, inset and Amazon has had a “devastating” impact on filmmakers.
It has hit particularly close to home for Dame Helen, who has been married to Oscar-winning director Taylor Hackford for more than two decades.
“It’s devastating for people like my husband because they want their movies to be watched in a cinema with a group of people,” she said.
She will next been seen in The Leisure Seeker, playing Ella Spencer, a woman with a terminal illness.
She said the tough role opened her eyes to confronting death, emphasising her point to say: “We’re all headed in that direction, sorry to tell you!”