Wednesday, August 29, 2007

21 GRAMS, 2003


Is it in all of Naomi Watts' contracts that she appear topless? Or in all of Sean Penn's contracts to portray a man with a torturted soul?

Directed by Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu.

2 comments:

Richard Mak said...

sorry, no. watts had only appeared topless in just a few of her 47 movies made. she argued with lynch and inarritu regarding this in the 2 films and succeeded in having them toned down the degree of her nudity.

compared to her peers like nicole kidman, kate winslet, julianne moore....watts is the one with the least nudity in films. she had never been full frontal or shown her posterior, opposed to those mentioned abve.

so the answer for you is NO. it's NOT in her contracts. but since you seem to be interested in this subject, for your reference, there is indeed a "voluntary nudity" clause in the agency contract signed by kate winslet.

Unknown said...

to be very specific, watts has only appeared topless (not bottomless or full frontal) in 3 films for a minute or 2 in each--21g, mulholland dr., & gross misconduct in 1993. she flashed in the outsider & ellie parker.

in fact she said she had only one argument w/david lynch & alejandro gonzales-inarritu, & that was over a nude scene. but i assume she is not sorry she agreed to compromise w/those 2 films.

even charlize theron, who knows a little about nude scenes, said she was glad naomi lost the argument because she found one in 21g one of the most moving love scenes she has ever seen on film.