British actress Kate Beckinsale has declared that she won’t go nude in any of her film roles. A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but I really appreciate it when actresses say they won’t do nude scenes. I’m no prude, for me it’s more a matter of equality. The ratio of naked women to naked men onscreen must be 25 to 1 or something. Let’s at least have a little parity here. Frankly if I were a man I’d feel a little insulted: the MPAA seems to find your equipment a lot more offensive to the senses than a woman’s comparable parts. Just a hint of the manly goods sends movie ratings sky high. And I don’t mean “ratings” in the sense of reviews. Kate Beckinsale’s reasons for keeping her panties on are a lot more logical than my equality-based nonsense: she was traumatized as a young girl when her actress mother went nude and kids taunted her. So she’s promised she won’t do the same to her nine-year-old daughter.
Kate Beckinsale has vowed never to appear naked in a movie, after she was bullied at school when her actress mum stripped on TV. The episode traumatised Beckinsale - whose mother is veteran British TV star Judy Loe - and she is determined not to subject her nine-year-old daughter Lily to the same humiliation. She tells AOL Movies, "My mum was an actress, and she did a nude scene on television when I was about 9 or 10, and the crisis I had when everyone came to school the next day and told me they'd seen my mother naked just makes me kind of, you know I'm not in a big rush to do that to my child. "She's embarrassed enough that I'm an actress at all, without me being naked as well."
[From Contact Music]
Looking out for the mental health/social well-being of your child is a pretty good reason to keep your clothes on. Men just don’t seem to face anywhere near the same amount of pressure. I love the excuse that sometimes a role just calls for nudity, and it has to be done. Alright then, but why is it always calling just for naked women? Hmm, something to ponder of dinner tonight. Reese Witherspoon recently made the same comments as Kate, and has pledge that she’ll keep her clothes on. I totally support this move. Of course if at any point the gentlemen would like to contribute to some equality, I’ll support that too.
Here’s Kate Beckinsale at the Los Angeles Premiere of "Snow Angels" on February 28th, 2008. Images thanks to PR Photos.
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