She also recalled an audition in which she was asked to fondle her breasts while holding a camera between her legs, later learning that the director played the footage at private parties. The 45-year-old star, with more than 40 combined film and television credits over her 25-plus-year career in Hollywood, told the story of a director who once gave her a false promise to shoot a frame above her bare breasts. “The number of people who want to distance themselves from me because of how much I’m willing to say is an example of how much is occurring.” Abuse and exploitation is rife,” she told the Guardian in 2016, ahead of the premiere of Westworld season one. On Thursday she discussed doing a lot of semi-nude and nude scenes throughout her career and feeling like “ a prisoner” in her own body during her long journey as a famed actress. Newton herself is an accomplished actress who’s certainly comfortable in her own skin despite overcoming the adversity of being both black and a woman in an industry often hostile to both. “It’s a very vulnerable position for men to be in as well.” “We talk about these things in a gendered way because often it is only women who get naked and only women who are vulnerable,” Westworld producer, co-creator and writer Lisa Joy explained during the post-screening Q&A session at the show’s season two New York City premiere in the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Thursday night.
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