Patricia Arquette reflected on filming the nude scene in “Lost Highway” in a new interview.
The actress, 55, opened up about the concerns she had during an appearance at the Series Mania Festival in France on Thursday.
“I was so extremely modest — I would take a bath in the dark,” Arquette recalled, according to Variety. “The scene when my character had to strip was terrifying to me.”
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“Lost Highway” director David Lynch apparently stepped in after Arquette expressed her discomfort.
“Some of the guys were saying crude things and I told David: ‘I am not comfortable,'” she admitted. “‘They are saying gross things.'”
“He said, ‘You read the script. Wait, who said what?’ When I came back, all these men were looking at their feet, all apologetic,” Arquette continued.
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The actress also found herself feeling uncomfortable while filming a sex scene.
“It was supposed to be a closed set,” she explained. “I said, ‘If I take this robe off, and I look at you and I know you don’t have to be there, I am going to punch you in the face.’ Later, I told [costar] Balthazar [Getty], ‘Just keep your hands on my tits. I would rather you hold them than the whole world saw them.'”
Arquette starred in the 1997 film as Renee Madison. The star-studded cast included Bill Pullman, Robert Blake, Gary Busey, Giovanni Ribisi and Richard Pryor.
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Arquette previously opened up about her “phobia of nudity” in an 2022 interview with The Guardian.
“One of the reasons I took the role was my phobia of nudity, but doing all those nude scenes didn’t cure it,” she said. “I had to peek through my fingers when I watched those moments in the film.”
Arquette also revealed that she visited dominatrix clubs to prepare for the role, saying: “I visited some weird clubs to prepare for the part, including this dominatrix place where some customers paid to be used as tables. I tried to study what the power dynamics were in there, the microexpressions in people’s faces.”
