Jodie Comer “really wanted to go for” nude scenes in her upcoming movie The End We Start From. Starring alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Fry and Mark Strong, Jodie plays a character only known as ‘Mother’, who gives birth as the UK is ravaged by a climate crisis.
In the end of the world drama, Mother is forced to fend for her and her newborn child in flood-ravaged streets. And the role required nudity and a labour scene – plenty of “intimate moments”, Jodie told HuffPost UK.
She explained: “When I met [director Mahalia Belo] early on, we kind of chatted in depth about those more intimate moments, the nudity and the depiction of showing a woman’s body in this way, and we both really wanted to go for it.
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“We had an intimacy coordinator… but I feel like she had more trepidation than I did.. I was just so ready to do it!” She confessed that she “didn’t need” someone to coordinate the more intimate scenes, even when it required using a prosthetic vulva to cover her own.
Jodie explained: “It was amazing… I loved having that prosthetic on. I have so many amazing pictures which I’m definitely going to post when the film’s out. But it also felt to me like an armour.” She said the scenes are “significant” to the story – but she was reassured that if she changed her mind about the nude scenes after they were filmed, they could all be cut out.
Mahalia confessed she knows actors who have been “slightly misused by nudity” and wanted to avoid being “sensationalist” – despite the scenes being “a major part” of the film overall.
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Jodie previously explained on The Graham Norton Show that the fake vagina was covered by a bin bag, explaining: “That’s a bin bag that was hiding the modesty between takes.” Fellow guests Kevin Hart and Sofia Vergara were baffled as they questioned why she was protecting the fake genitals, but Jodie said: “Yeah, but it was out! It made me feel better. I felt less exposed.”
She went on to explain: “Everyone was looking after me – bringing me coffee and stuff, to keep me awake.” Comedian Kevin refused to even glance at the picture, quipping: “Clearly an attempt to take a Black man down. That’s what this is. As soon as I look at that, ‘what are you doing, Kevin?’ I know what this is, Jodie. I didn’t fall for the trap. I sat and drank my wine.”
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Jodie worked with 15 different babies for the role, aged from just eight weeks old to young toddlers. She told the BBC: “A lot of my younger cousins have grown up now, so I haven’t spent a lot of time around young babies. My hands were visibly shaking when I met an eight-week-old on set. I was like, ‘Oh my god, what have I done?’”
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