Christina Ricci Says She Was As soon as Threatened With a Lawsuit for Not Eager to Do a Intercourse Scene in a Film — GeekTyrant

Actress Christina Ricci has been in Hollywood for a very long time, kicking off her profession in 1990 on the age of 10 when she starred within the movie Mermaids alongside Cher and Winona Ryder. The subsequent 12 months she made her mark as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Household, and starred in coming of age films like Now and Then and Casper within the following years. She spent the following twenty years in indie dramas and is again within the highlight the previous couple of years starring within the two hit sequence Yellowjackets and Wednesday.

As an actress over three a long time, Ricci has seen the trade change, and he or she is now talking out about an expertise she had some time again, which she feels wouldn’t occur now.

In a current interview on The View (by way of EW), Ricci defined that she as soon as was threatened over refusing to carry out a intercourse scene in a sure method. She was requested by the discuss present’s hosts how movie and tv units have modified over time for younger lady, to which she mentioned they’re heard extra clearly after they state their boundaries.

“It’s actually nice. Us older girls discuss it on a regular basis. It’s wonderful to see that they don’t essentially must undergo the issues we needed to undergo. They’re in a position to say, ‘I don’t wish to do that intercourse scene,’ ‘I’m not going to be bare.’ They’ll set boundaries for themselves that we have been by no means allowed to do. Somebody threatened to sue me as soon as as a result of I didn’t wish to do that intercourse scene in a sure method. It’s actually modified and it’s nice to see.”

Throughout a dialog final 12 months with Euphoria Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney as a part of Selection’s “Actors on Actors” sequence, Ricci talked about that she was as soon as threatened with a lawsuit on a film set. She didn’t reveal on the time that it was over refusing to do a intercourse scene.

“I bear in mind as soon as on a film saying I wasn’t comfy with one thing and so they threatened to sue me if I didn’t do it. That will by no means occur now. I didn’t do it anyway. And so they didn’t sue me.”

Speaking to Sweeney about performing nude scenes, Ricci added:

“The factor that made me extra uncomfortable was different folks being uncomfortable with me being bare. So what I did, and also you most likely wouldn’t be allowed to do that now — I simply stayed bare. I used to be like, ‘Don’t make me really feel bizarre, like I’m the one who needs to be ashamed.’…I haven’t completed a intercourse scene in a pair years. I’m at that age the place they don’t ask you to do them a lot anymore. I imply, I don’t actually get pleasure from them.”

It’s a bummer that it took so lengthy for ladies to have a voice in Hollywood, and we nonetheless have a methods to go, however it’s nice that actresses can really feel extra comfy in voicing their opinions and considerations in terms of how their our bodies are considered on display screen.

Christina Ricci may be seen subsequent in Yellowjackets Season 2 on Showtime on March twenty fourth.