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Actress regrets not stripping on camera when younger

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Updated on June 17, 2023

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Andie MacDowell, the 61-year-old actress, has expressed regret over not having done a n^de scene earlier in her career.

She said she wished she had stripped off in movies when she was younger, so that she could have shown her children that they should never “feel any shame about their bodies”.

MacDowell bares all for the first time in the 2017 film Love After Love, and while she is “proud” of taking chances in her career at this time, she is sorry that she didn’t do it sooner.

MacDowell has three children: Justin, 33, Rainey, 29, and 24-year-old Sarah with ex-husband Paul Qualley.

“I grew up in a conservative family and, in my generation, most actresses hired body doubles for those scenes,” she told the i newspaper.

“I took my clothes off in front of him and said, ‘What do you think?’ He kept saying, ‘You are so beautiful, oh that’s beautiful, that’s beautiful,’ It made me calm,” she said.
“Although there is n^dty throughout the whole film, it’s done in such an artistic way that it makes the story that much richer because you just feel like you are watching these people’s lives.”

MacDowell feels that the n^dty in Love After Love depicts “real” life, rather than objectifying women as is often the case in films.

“I think women have quite often been used in movies as an object for men,” she said.

“n^dty in this film feels human and similar in the way male and female bodies are depicted.

The forms and the shapes and how we were laying on the bed.

It’s shown as being real and a part of life.”
The actress also shot a s** scene in the film.

However, MacDowell insists that there was nothing objectifying about it.

“It’s shown as being real and a part of life,” she said.
In the movie, MacDowell plays Chris O’Dowd’s character’s mother.

However, she doesn’t feel offended being asked to play someone significantly older than herself.

“I am old enough to be his mother!” she said.

“And I just played another character recently, where I tried to look even older.

I don’t have a problem with looking older.

I think I can play 10 years older and 10 years younger.