Aubrey Plaza has claimed a Hollywood director told her to “masturbate for real” while filming a raunchy film scene.
Though the movie industry has plenty of tricks up its sleeve when it comes to preserving actors’ modesty during sex scenes, it seems nothing quite lives up to the real thing.
Usually sex is simply a simulation, interrupted by modesty barriers, intimacy coordinators and even false nipples to ensure an actor’s body is never fully naked for real.
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Margot Robbie was even treated to a room full of genital wigs for her role on The Wolf of Wall Street, where she filmed a sex scene with Leonardo DiCaprio.
But Aubrey was more than willing to go further for her 2013 flick The To-Do List.
She played nerdy teen Brandy Klark in the comedy flick, who is determined to tick things off her bucket list before she heads off to college.
And one scene sees the sexually inexperienced character get up close and intimate with herself.
Though Aubrey reckoned she’d just be acting the scene out, it turns out director Maggie Carey wanted things to go a step further.
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The White Lotus star told Conan O’Brien: “In my head, I envisioned a nice scene where you see my hand slowly go out of frame.
“That’s what I thought I was going into, but then when I showed up, the camera was mounted on the ceiling, I was in my underwear and a Clinton t-shirt, and there were a bunch of old men smoking, ya know, the crew guys.
“And then I went and touched myself.”
Though she was joking about the men smoking, Aubrey went on to say: “I thought I was doing one thing and then when I showed up, it was a whole different thing, it was a full body shot.
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“And I asked the director, ‘What should I do?’ And she said, ‘Masturbate, like it says in the script’.”
She later branded the scene “the most nerve-wracking”, as she explained: “Just because in my head I thought, ‘Oh, we’ll probably shoot this in a way where I don’t really have to really do it’.
“But then when we did it and I was like, ‘Oh no, we’re going to shoot it where I do it’.”
Daily Star has contacted Maggie Carey’s representatives for comment.
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