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In a recent interview with W Magazine, rising star Carey Mulligan opened up about the nude scene in her latest movie, the gritty Steve McQueen-directed film "Shame."
In "Shame," Mulligan takes on the role of troubled, provocative Sissy, the younger sister of a sex addict played by Michael Fassbender.
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Mulligan's role in the NC-17 film required her to act out a suicide attempt, have an almost incestuous bond to her fake-sibling... and go completely nude on screen for the first time.
Going nude for 'Shame'
At first, Carey Mulligan was reluctant to do a nude scene on film, especially if it was a sex scene.
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"I've always been sort of staunchly feminist about it," Mulligan, 26, told W. "I've never relished the idea of doing it, and never if it was inappropriate or gratuitous in any way."
The role itself was also quite a departure from Mulligan's roles in the past. Though the actress has done some "semi-nude," "very innocent" shots before, she'd never felt comfortable with the idea of going full nude on-screen.
Once she was pushed into it by director Steve McQueen, however, Carey Mulligan discovered something she hadn't expected: that nude scenes are "kind of fun."
'I'm naked, ha, ha, ha.'
It helped that Sissy, the character Mulligan plays in "Shame," has the exact opposite view about going nude that Mulligan does.
"It was absolutely right," the actress said, recalling when she stripped down. "She wanted to be seen, she's an exhibitionist and she's provocative."
She even took a moment to bask in the freedom of nudity on-set. "You take your clothes off, and you're like, 'Ah, all of you are wearing clothes and I'm naked, ha, ha, ha," Mulligan laughed.
Mulligan is careful, however, to say that one nude scene won't open the door to gratuitous sex scenes in the future. "Not that I would continue to do that [go naked]," Mulligan said. "The nudity helped me dive into who she was."
'It wasn't about whether I looked good naked.'
