Going n-de on film can be an exposing experience, but if you're like Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley, then all you've got to do is learn from the best.
Already a hot tip to get an Oscar nomination for her break-out role as a paranoid escapee from an abusive cult in Martha Marcy May Marlene, 22-year-old Olsen has revealed that she took inspiration from The Reader Oscar-winner Kate Winslet to get through her n-de scenes in the psychological thriller.
"[Martha Marcy May Marlene] is only my second film, I got nervous. 'Wait does this set a precedent for me? Are people going to think I'm just game for that?' Because I'm not," she said. "When it's sensationalised or gratuitous, I have no interest in it. But for this movie, it's so a part of the nature theme that's exploded and the loss of identity…"
It was Winslet's performance as a woman under the spell of a cult in Holy Smoke that really gave Olsen the courage to bare all in MMMM.
"Kate Winslet in that film has much more difficult, physically vulnerable scenes than I did in this movie and it was so impactful. And I was thinking, 'Look at her career now. She's not pigeonholed, it just is the story.'"
"And that was a lesson to learn, to look up to her career as something that's pretty ideal in my mind… That gave me a type of courage of being like, 'I'm going to support the movie, this tells the story better, this is important for the story and that's that.'"
