Actress Raeden Greer claims she was sacked from True Detective after refusing to appear topless for a sequence, even after being pressured into it by director Cary Joji Fukunaga.

Greer stated in an interview with The Daily Beast that going topless was not in her contract, and that she was repeatedly told that she would not have to go n-ked for her str!pper part.

“I kept getting the answer from my agent and from casting — no, that would be absolutely unheard of if they asked you to do nud!ty after it wasn’t disclosed,” she stated.

“‘There was no rider, there was no negotiating this into your contract, that would not happen, so stop asking about it because it’s making you look amateurish.’ So, I was like, ‘OK, I’m gonna quit worrying about it’.”

Greer, on the other hand, was startled when she arrived on set and discovered her clothing consisted of a n-ked th0ng and pasties.

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Greer claims that when she objected to the costume, Fukunaga and another producer on the program approached her for a talk in an attempt to persuade her.

‘Cary said to me at that moment, “Everybody on this show goes topless. All the women on the show go topless. Your character is a str!pper, so you have to,”‘ Greer remembered Fukunaga telling her.

“He was trying different things to convince me that it’s not a big deal,” she continued. “It [was] going to be very tasteful, or it’s just gonna be really insignificant in the background. I was like, ‘Well, if it’s so insignificant, why is he so insistent that I have to do this?’ It was just on and on and on with no budging.”

Greer claims she held firm in her beliefs and was later sacked from the part, with Fukunaga replacing her with a background artist on set.

“It was degrading. It was humiliating and made me feel terrible,” she stated. “As soon as I got in my car, I started crying and I called my agent and I told her what happened and she couldn’t believe it.”

After watching Fukunaga give interviews while promoting his current picture, No Time To Die, in which he proposes introducing a female angle to the James Bond series, the actress felt compelled to speak up.

Cary Joji Fukunaga previously revealed to The Hollywood Reporter how he enlisted Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a co-writer for No Time to Die and gave Lashana Lynch’s Nomi the 007 moniker in Bond’s absence early in the film.

“From my very first conversations with [producer Barbara Broccoli], that was a very strong drive,” he remarked. “You can’t change Bond overnight into a different person. But you can definitely change the world around him and the way he has to function in that world.”

“It’s a story about a white man as a spy in this world, but you have to be willing to lean in and do the work to make the female characters more than just contrivances.”