Claire Foy against sex scenes: “I feel exploited”

Although Hollywood is increasingly engaged in the creation of sex scenes that are very attentive to the psychological balance of the performers, many of them continue to have strong reservations about filming them. One of them is Claire Foy, famous for having lent her face to Queen Elizabeth in the first two seasons of The Crown and now ready to play Margaret Campbell in the BBC series A Very British Scandal. The series, which will see her starring opposite Paul Bettany, chronicles one of the most famous and controversial divorces the UK has ever seen in its history. Story that has, however, forced Foy to indulge in many risqué scenes that she doesn’t seem to have liked.

“I feel exposed,” the actress said in an interview with BBC Radio 4, revealing her embarrassment on set. “It’s really hard, because you basically feel exploited when you are a woman and you have to pretend sex on screen. You can’t help but feel exploited. It’s the hardest thing you can do, ”said Foy, who added that he is aware that he wants to act in certain scenes, but that he wants to do them according to his rules. “You feel exposed. Everyone tries not to make you feel that way but, unfortunately, this is the truth, ”he added.

In A Very British Scandal, Foy plays one of the first women to be publicly offended and branded a slut because of her sex life: a practice known as’slut-shaming» that the actress feels the need to condemn. “I hate that language, to be called a ‘slut’, but I think women have been subjected to certain things all along. Perhaps since Eve in the Bible. Lthe word “slut” simply shouldn’t exist “, he said. At the end of the interview, however, the actress also emphasized the great changes that, fortunately, are involving female representation in cinema and on TV. “The genie has been brought out of the lamp and things can never go back. I feel that now there is more space and more acceptance ».