Jessica Chastain has revealed she had one condition for appearing nude in her TV show, Scenes From A Marriage.
Chastain is seen fully in the nude in a shower scene in episode two of the new HBO limited series - and she recently revealed that her condition to go through with the scene was that her co-star Oscar Isaac also go nude on the show, which he did in episode four.
The actress explained her thinking behind the proposition during an appearance on The View, alongside Isaac.
She said: "I said to Hagai [Levi], who wrote and directed the series, in the very beginning, I said, 'I'm comfortable with all the nudity but any part of my body that you show, you're going to have to show the same with Oscar.'"
Check out the interview here:Chastain added: "So there's a shower scene that I have in Episode two, and you see my body. So now you see his body. So for me, I wanted it to be balanced."
Isaac, who plays Chastain's husband on the show, told the hosts of The View that he only found out that his nude scene had made it into the final cut of the show when the episode aired.
He said: "You get sent the stuff to look at to be like, 'OK, I'm fine with that'. But I saw it on a laptop quite dark and I didn't notice what was happening down there.
"It was a surprise when I started seeing all these things like, 'It's full-frontal.' I was like, 'No, what are you talking about?' And I saw it, and clear as day on the big TV there, it's there for everyone to see."
In recent years, Chastain has spoken out about the sexualization and objectification of actresses who perform nude scenes.
Speaking to Vulture in 2018, she said: "I have no issues with nudity, especially in a lot of European cinema that I adore, but I find that in American cinema, the idea of nudity has always bothered me.
"I realized why: For me, I'm uncomfortable with nudity when it feels like it's not the person's decision to be naked when it's something that has been put upon them. In a way, I see that as like a victimization."
She continued: "It trains an audience that exploiting someone in their body should be normal for nudity when I think the opposite.
"When people are completely in control of their decisions, that is a really exciting thing. I love the human form — male nudity, female nudity, I'm all about it. I had to get to that place where, for me, it was my decision."
