The Crown Star Josh O'Connor Opens Up About Full-Frontal Nude Scenes In New Movie

The Crown's Josh O'Connor has addressed appearing completely naked in his new movie Mothering Sunday, which also stars Olivia Colman and Colin Firth.

With the British drama premiering at Cannes Film Festival this month, the actor caught up with Variety to discuss the narrative significance of his full-frontal nude scenes opposite Odessa Young.

'They tell so much of the story,' he commented. 'They tell stuff that no writer could write dialogue for.'

Josh O'Connor at a photocall in Cannes for Mothering Sunday

His co-star Odessa, whose character Jane casually wanders through a country house in her birthday suit during one scene, went on to add: 'I think that we, as actors, get asked to do really weird shit all the time. And in fact being nude is, like, not weird.'

Meanwhile, Mothering Sunday director Eva Husson explained why she decided not to implement intimacy co-ordinators on set for the movie's sex scenes.

'I understand the need for intimacy coordinators because there has been abuse. [But] I think that for some of us it doesn't make sense to put someone else between us and the actors.

'For me, the body is a tool, and you choreograph, you work the muscle memory, and then you move on and you work on the more emotional side of things,' she noted, 'and I don't want to have to explain that to yet another person.

"Believe me it's tiring enough to have to get things out of your brain to one person so the more intermediaries I have... I just think it's up to the level of confidence in the director and the level of trust that he creates or she creates with the actors."

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