Sonya Cassidy (Sexy) in Humans [S2E5]
Sonya Cassidy (Sexy), Gemma Chan, Emily Berrington, Katherine Parkinson, Lucy Carless, Letitia Wright, Carrie-Anne Moss, Claudia Harrison, Ruth Bradley, Ritu Arya & Lauren Carse in Humans [S2E5]
Charity Wakefield (Breasts) in Close to the Enemy [S1E2]
My mum always made a point of being open with me about everything, including growing up, boys and sex. She taught me that knowledge is free and should be shared, and I really love her for that.’The two have discussed the pressure faced by young actresses to sign up for ever-more-explicit love scenes. ‘I do think far too much story these days is being told through the medium of two people having sex, and it’s actually quite boring and regressive.’
‘But I have done love scenes before. In Any Human Heart, for example, I didn’t think twice about it because it was integral to the story and I’d had a conversation with the director beforehand about how it would be shot and how much I’d be exposed. And I trusted him.’
Charity is not opposed to sex in art, she says: ‘Sex is part of life, but I do think that actresses often get the raw end of the deal because they’re generally more exposed than actors. And I’m not a fan of the way that every young woman on screen must be thin and oiled up with no hint of cellulite, which is completely unrealistic and damaging to other “normal looking” young women.
I think we should have more diversity on screen in terms of women’s bodies, and if I’m honest there is a part of me that – when I read a script in which I’m meant to be naked or taking part in a sex scene – worries about how I’m going to look on screen and how my imperfections are going to be judged by people.
Hollywood Casting Diversification