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Samuel L. Jackson apologized to Naomi Watts during s-x scene

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Updated on July 6, 2023

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Despite having appeared in over 100 films over the course of three decades, Samuel L. Jackson still has reservations about filming intimate scenes. Most recently, he apologized to Naomi Watts, his “Mother and Child” co-star, for his “excitement” – or lack thereof.

In the film, the actor plays Paul, while Naomi plays Elizabeth. Elizabeth seduces Paul in this film about three women and their attitudes toward children.

“We did our scene the first day, we kind of knew each other because I know Liev [Schreiber, Watt’s partner], but we’d never really interacted. Our first interaction was that particular scene where she seduces me,” he explained to FOX News Pop Tarts.

“For me as an actor, I don’t know how to do that sort of thing in a room full of people, and I tend to ask a lot of questions. Where can I touch you? Where can I not touch you? I’m sorry if I get excited, I’m sorry if I don’t.. But Naomi really took charge.”

In the film, which also stars Annette Bening and Kerry Washington, Naomi, who is married to actor Liev Schreiber, delivers a full-frontal flash as her character seduces several unlucky guys.

So, while Watts’ character’s sexual aggression is necessary for the R-rated picture, it raises the question of how far women must go in Hollywood to get jobs. We didn’t witness Jackson exposing himself while being romantic, and we didn’t see a n-ked Leonardo DiCaprio in “Titanic” although co-star Kate Winslet was. In “The Break Up,” Jennifer Aniston exposed her bottom, while Vince Vaughn did not. In “Thirteen,” Holly Hunter was also exposed in the shower, although Jeremy Sisto was not. In “Beowulf,” even an animated Angelina Jolie was sculpted full-frontal, but male co-stars John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins, and Ray Winstone didn’t need to go that way.

“There is pressure for women to do nudity; there is no doubt about that. But I don’t think the pressure is anything new,” Matt Atchity, the Editor-in-Chief of Rotten Tomatoes, told Pop Tarts. “It’s been happening for arguably 30 or 40 years, but do I think there’s probably unfairness there. Harvey Keitel famously has got n-ked in a couple of his films and its like, really, who cares? But when Halle Berry did ‘Swordfish,’ that was a big deal.”

However, James Berardinelli, a film reviewer for ReelViews, argues that sequences involving male nud!ty are becoming increasingly common in mainstream Hollywood.

Berardinelli remarked, “Most of the female nud!ty I see these days is in smaller indie productions and foreign films. With respect to Hollywood films, the overwhelming goal of getting a PG-13 rating pretty much takes nudity out of the equation. But with R-rated features, there has been more male nudity in recent years. The difference is that female nudity is often used to titillate whereas male nudity is used almost exclusively for comedic purposes.”