Posted on 05/17/2020 8:22:42 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
Melisandre actress Carice Van Houten told Insider that she now questions her nude scenes in "Game of Thrones" because of the Me Too Movement.
Insider spoke to the Red Witch via Zoom in lockdown, which Van Houten is spending with her three-year-old son in Amsterdam. And Van Houten said that while her opinion on the divisive final season of the HBO show hasn't changed — she loved it — she has rethought the necessity of the nudity in the show.
"When the Me Too movement started, that's when it started sinking in for me," Van Houten told Insider. "And it did sort of change my perspective on my whole career, not just 'Game of Thrones.'"
"In retrospect, I thought, 'Why did that scene have to be nude? Why was that normal?' I did question things and it was not so much that I was blaming anyone, but that's just how we evolved, and just how the movement affected me.
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I remember her from 2006 movie BLACK BOOK...
It was a World War 2 movie...It was about Dutch Resistance during the war...Her character, a Jewish woman, fell in love with the German officer...The movie starts with a scene in Israel...She meets her old friend who came to Israel with her Canadian husband...The old friend married the Canadian soldier who was part of the Canadian army which occupied Netherlands after the German surrender...
She was nude very frequently in that movie...
I think some of you watched GAME OF THRONES on HBO?
I can see the thought bubble now. "Golly. Should I take my top off or should I continue collecting a paycheck? I'll ask myself again later."
[She is done with nudity for herself, however]
#TooLate
Speak for yourself. Perhaps my standards are slipping in my old age but I consider her to be very much not guilty.
PoundMeToo has done sooooo much for the women’s movement.
Well she’s got the high beams on!
I missed the whole GOT series; shame on me.
she’s like Eva Green from James Bond etc. She’s nude or in sex scenes right afterwards and the ending where she, the red witch, dies walking into the snow, was “needed”. If she had any clout on set, she would have said “why cant you just CGI me melting?”
Then she should give paycheck and royalties back. Fruit of the poisoned tree
> “In retrospect, I thought, ‘Why did that scene have to be nude? Why was that normal?’... <
In all seriousness, she does have a point. All those great movies from the 1940s and 50s, none of them required their female leads to strip down. It really is exploitive. It would be like a store owner requiring his check-out clerks to work topless. It just isn’t necessary.
On the other hand, it’s a free country. You don’t like the script, you don’t take the role. So while I kinda agree with Van Houten, I won’t be protesting anywhere about it.
“At 43, that’s probably wise.”
I’ve met, seen 43-45 year old’s who would shame any 25 year old in my lifetime. There are just genetically beautiful women who age after 30, which in most cases are the reverse. Plus I’m in Hollywood and know who are natural beauties.
Even back in college, I dated this redhead, went to meet her folks and the 41 year old mom was effing’ hotter than the daughter. I wanted to ‘switch” being the young buck I was lol
Agreed, and send me the clips of her scenes I missed.
Well, remember back in the forties and fifties the movie industry was governed by the Hays code , so nudity was prohibited anyway. So was profanity.
Yes dear you were manipulated/paid to be a Great Actress and do Art as though these guys are at all interested in THAT.
THEY ARENT. it’s just a more sophisticated way than feeling you up in a crowded bus.
Sure you are an adult but adults fall for lots of cons.
You’re famous now and made a lot of money. You were also sexually exploited.
I agree.
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