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Olivia Colman

posted 18 years ago by sad_antoine
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I love this actress - since she came to national attention as "Bev" in the AA car insurance advert! ("We used to have one of those" *wiggles nose*). It's a travesty they replaced her - then again she probably outgrew the role.

Since then she's done great work in Green Wing (with Stephen Mangan), Peep Show (with Robert Webb) etc.

The trailer caught me completely by surprise! She's NAKED! In a 12-rated trailer! Proper naked! I couldn't concentrate on the first hour of the movie after that.

Its nice to see name actors taking on naturist characters in a mainstream movie - I hope they are portrayed relatively sympathetically, naturism is too much fun to just be mocked and laughed at all the time. And hopefully it won't have a bad effect on their careers - it didn't hurt Alexander Armstrong, Ben Miller or Green Wing co-star Sarah Alexander when they appeared naked in Armstrong & Miller a decade ago.

[–] AlbinoBadBob 18 years ago

I love Her,She's really naked in this then?

Look what your brother did to the door!

[–] lister_larger 18 years ago

Yeah completly naked you can see her minge.

[–] AlbinoBadBob 18 years ago

Thats got to be worth the price of the dvd!

Look what your brother did to the door!

[–] JoeJoe_Productions 18 years ago

Ahahahahahaha....

Never Trust a Preist with a Boner...

[–] RainingCatsAndBlogs 18 years ago

It's a 15

THE BETTER YOU LOOK THE MORE YOU SEE

[–] NazT 17 years ago

Sarah Alexander has been naked !?!?! What on?!?! anyone got any links?!!

"The Master"

[–] kelticman 17 years ago

olivia was gloriously naked. LOVED her.

bonk!

[–] whatleym 16 years ago

Sarah Alexander has appeared full frontal in an early episode from the 'Armstrong & Miller' comedy series. She plays one of the naked vets; Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller are also nude. Unfortunately only one of the 5 series is available on DVD and it's a recent series, not using Sarah. Clips of this scene are available however as VHS rips if you search for them.

[–] mazunderscore 17 years ago

She's brilliant and has SO much courage for doing what she did. I could NEVER do anything like that.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~did you see that film last night, "gay lords say no?"

[–] ayan_ibs 16 years ago

Okay fair enough I could NEVER dot hat but she didn't look that great naked.
IMO of course.

[–] mazunderscore 16 years ago

Do you think that she SHOULD have? Do you think the film would have been better if she looked like a plastic tanned perfect model????? What is even the point of saying she didn't look great. People like you make me sick mate.

[–] sweiland75 15 years ago

You're all talk and no action. Until you get rid of your own irrational fear of nudity, your words mean nothing.

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[–] KAnnD86 15 years ago

I just watched this on TV and (obviously) they blurred out all the nudity. I mistakenly assumed the blurring was part of the film. It's pretty funny to hear they were actually nude.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

[–] red_red_robyn 15 years ago

Out of interest, which country are you in? I just watched it on the BBC (it started at 10pm) and there was no blurring, no cutting, no editing - just full-on nudity! Respect to them I say - they all looked fab!

"You people. If there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowing about, is it" - Dogma

[–] KAnnD86 15 years ago

The US. It was on the Lifetime channel which is basic cable. They'd never allow full frontal nudity, male or female, on television during the day like that, even if it's not in a sexual situation. It's rather stupid.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

[–] ed-parlett 15 years ago

Well yes she's naked, as all of us have been at some time in our lives. It's hardly a pornagraphic, let's all wank over this kind of naked, they're naturists so it's about as erotic as a limp cucumber.

Just thought i'd warn the puerile dirty mac brigade before they pass out anticipating more than it is.

[–] aliw135 15 years ago

She wasn't as excited as you lot about being naked, she commented that the nudity in this film was handled really badly and that she and Webb exposed more than they thought they would have to.

[–] Gaz911 14 years ago

Yes they were told that it would all be blurred out and only found out on the opening night that it wasn't.The director flat out lied to them and Olivia Colman was very upset and to think the director was a woman and willing to put another through that.

[–] MrTelly 13 years ago

As @Gaz911 states above, Olivia Colman calls the film "the worst experience of my life."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jun/18/comedy.arts

The experience, according to an uncharacteristically grumpy Colman, remains a source of broiling horror. "There were certain chats that took place for an entire year before filming which suggested the nudity wouldn't be quite as awful as it was. I would have felt better about it had I been aware how much was actually going to be on display. It was," she says, glaring at the coffee table, "the worst experience of my life."

[–] Nriks 10 years ago

They were both very naïve. If they were told the nudity would be pixelated in the final cut, they should have worn a flesh coloured speedo and pasties. To be filmed completely naked and not expect the footage to be used or released was very silly of them.

Not taking anything away from the director and producers as being responsible for exploiting their actors, but c'mon.

[–] Gaz911 10 years ago

You have a point it was very naive not wearing speedos/pasties or getting a no nudity contact or something of the like.But its an Unbelievable breaking of trust between actors and the director/Producers.I can't understand why other actors would work with the director and producers of this film when you clearly can't trust them.

[–] Prismark10 10 years ago

I get the feeling that the actors knew how much nudity there would be, its just Coleman's star has risen a lot since then.

Its that man again!!