Carey Mulligan has revealed that nude scenes have helped her overcome her body issues.
The Great Gatsby actress said that she found getting naked for scenes with Michael Fassbender in Shame"liberating", reports The Sun.
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"In my own life I'm very prudish about my body, or at least I have been in the past," she said.
"I'm always covering myself up rather than wearing skimpy outfits. I don't look good in very short skirts - at least I don't think so.
"I'm often terrified about different aspects of characters I'm playing."
Mulligan starred alongside Fassbender in the Steve McQueen directed film in 2011 and despite being nervous about the scenes, she insisted that it was important for the character that she do them.
"With respect to nudity, it was vital to the character in Shame, who wasn't supposed to be a very attractive character and needed to be emotionally naked and lost in different ways," she said.
"This is who she is - a character who can stand fully naked in front of her brother and not feel anything.
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"But doing the nudity for Shame was actually very liberating for me and it helped me deal with my own issues with my body."
The 27-year-old is starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. Tobey Maguire and Isla Fisher also star in the film.
Mulligan described the Twenties dresses that she wears in the movie as "stunning".
"They're quite stunning but I also made sure I was doing Pilates and going to the gym regularly, which most of us in the cast were doing so we could look our best," she said.
The actress added that it was a "dream come true" to work with DiCaprio, saying that he is "one of the greatest actors in the business".
The Great Gatsby will be released in cinemas in the US on May 10 and in the UK on May 16.
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Just watched Shame yesterday and am writing a paper on it for my film class. I loved Carey in it, she reminded me a lot of some of the crazy women I've known in my life. I was also not expecting her to have a nude scene in this movie but I liked that it wasn't done in a sexual context.
The Great Gatsby actress said that she found getting naked for scenes with Michael Fassbender in Shame"liberating", reports The Sun.
"In my own life I'm very prudish about my body, or at least I have been in the past," she said.
"I'm always covering myself up rather than wearing skimpy outfits. I don't look good in very short skirts - at least I don't think so.
"I'm often terrified about different aspects of characters I'm playing."
Mulligan starred alongside Fassbender in the Steve McQueen directed film in 2011 and despite being nervous about the scenes, she insisted that it was important for the character that she do them.
"With respect to nudity, it was vital to the character in Shame, who wasn't supposed to be a very attractive character and needed to be emotionally naked and lost in different ways," she said.
"This is who she is - a character who can stand fully naked in front of her brother and not feel anything.
"But doing the nudity for Shame was actually very liberating for me and it helped me deal with my own issues with my body."
The 27-year-old is starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. Tobey Maguire and Isla Fisher also star in the film.
Mulligan described the Twenties dresses that she wears in the movie as "stunning".
"They're quite stunning but I also made sure I was doing Pilates and going to the gym regularly, which most of us in the cast were doing so we could look our best," she said.
The actress added that it was a "dream come true" to work with DiCaprio, saying that he is "one of the greatest actors in the business".
The Great Gatsby will be released in cinemas in the US on May 10 and in the UK on May 16.
Source
Just watched Shame yesterday and am writing a paper on it for my film class. I loved Carey in it, she reminded me a lot of some of the crazy women I've known in my life. I was also not expecting her to have a nude scene in this movie but I liked that it wasn't done in a sexual context.