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‘The audience just looks at what your genitals are like’: why Joanna Lumley thinks we should axe sex scenes | Television

It’s rude, distracting – and the acting equivalent of having your pants pulled down in a playground. Should we call time on them?

A veteran performer, who has lived through several cycles of onscreen permissiveness, and holds a greater understanding than most of the cynical impulses that call for an actor to disrobe in the name of art. Where once directors would think nothing of making a star whip her top off for nothing more than a gratuitous moment of titillation, performers now have to contend with the fact that all their nude scenes will live for ever on the internet. Despite the long and arduous debate about how misogynistic it is/isn’t, Poor Things is a story about a woman who used sex to build an entire personality, so removing its nudity would strip the heart from the film.

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