Alexandra Daddario was surprised by her sex scene in True Detective – and not in the way you might expect.
The 37-year-old actress bagged an Emmy nomination for her performance as Rachel Patton in the first series of The White Lotus. But before that, she played Woody Harrelson’s on-screen mistress in HBO crime hit True Detective.
She appeared as Lisa Tragnetti, who gets a visit from Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) at her house in the second episode of the show. Marty gifts Daddario’s character a pair of handcuffs and she proceeds to use them as a kinky toy.
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Lisa cuffs the cop and whips off all of her clothes before straddling him and playfully reads him his rights. The explicit scene involved Daddario getting naked on set for real, and she decided to embrace it.
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But the actresses admitted she wasn’t too aware of her “sex appeal” before doing the scene. She told Men’s Journal: “I have a lot of thoughts on this topic, but for example, when True Detective came out and I was naked on the show, and it was huge for my career and the phone was ringing and I got some work off of it.
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“I think that I hadn’t been that aware of my sex appeal prior to that. I tried not to take it too seriously. I really love acting, in my heart I’m just a theater nerd, and I sort of took that and said, ‘This is good for my career,’ and embraced it.”
Daddario flaunted her body again by wearing a bikini in The White Lotus, when Rachel showed off in front of Olivia and Paula. Although she’s happier to lean into sexier moments on screen and it’s been great for her career, Daddario doesn’t always find it easy.
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She added: “I really love what I do. I happen to have a lot of fun with getting dressed up and playing roles, and even on red carpets, I’m kind of playing a role. And it’s great, it’s fun, but I think it can be negative, some of the attention, and so I try to ignore some of the more negative aspects of it.”
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