{"id":893845,"date":"2021-10-18T12:29:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=893845"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:29:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:29:26","slug":"actress-takes-feminist-stand-by-going-nude-but-making-male-costar-do-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-takes-feminist-stand-by-going-nude-but-making-male-costar-do-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Takes \u2018Feminist\u2019 Stand By Going Nude, But Making Male Costar Do The Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factress-takes-feminist-stand-by-going-nude-but-making-male-costar-do-the-same%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=893845&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actress Jessica Chastain said she had no problem going nude for her role in \u201cScenes of a Marriage,\u201d but had one requirement: her male costar Oscar Isaac must go nude, too.<\/p>\n<p>Chastain rationalized that her stipulation for taking off her clothes on camera was a way to create gender \u201cbalance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to Hagai [Levi], who wrote and directed the series, in the very beginning, \u2018I\u2019m comfortable with all the nudity, but any part of my body that you show, you\u2019re going to have to show the same with Oscar,&#8217;\u201d the actress said during an appearance on \u201cThe View.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chastain noted that there\u2019s a shower scene in episode two when she has to show intimate parts of her body for the camera \u2014 so Isaac had to, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo there\u2019s a shower scene that I have in episode two, and you see my body. So now you see his body,\u201d the 44-year-old said. \u201cSo for me, I wanted it to be balanced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe View\u201d co-host Joy Behar chimed in that it\u2019s \u201ctypical for women\u2019s bodies\u201d to have to show nudity, seemingly offering support for Chastain\u2019s \u201cbalance\u201d stipulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScenes of a Marriage\u201d also shows Chastain\u2019s character having an affair, reversing the \u201cgender stereotypes\u201d from the original version, which aired in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>The series, when it aired in 1973, \u201creportedly caused divorce rates in Sweden to skyrocket,\u201d one of the \u201cView\u201d cohosts said. \u201cIn this new version, the gender roles are swapped. So, now you have the wife (Chastain) as the primary breadwinner and is also the spouse who has the affair. So why was that important?\u201d she asked Chastain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it was exciting to me, because, I think in our society, we acknowledge that men are complicated and have flaws and have sexual desires and needs and can be selfish, and we don\u2019t acknowledge those things in women,\u201d the actress replied. \u201cAnd I like to play women who are fully-fledged human beings, and I love the idea of showing women in their sexual desires and their wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chastain also noted that there is far more \u201cshock\u201d over the female character having an affair than there was when the roles were reversed in the \u201973 version, apparently underscoring society\u2019s negative gender stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac said he wasn\u2019t aware of just how much nudity there was for him on-screen until people started to talk about it online, Cosmo&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/autos\/jessica-chastain-wanted-balanced-nude-180200300.html\">highlighted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou get sent the stuff to look at to be like, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m fine with that,\u2019\u201d the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Jessica Chastain said she had no problem going nude for her role in \u201cScenes of a Marriage,\u201d but had one requirement: her male costar Oscar Isaac must go nude, too.Chastain rationalized that her stipulation for taking off her clothes on camera was a way to create gender \u201cbalance.\u201d\u201cI said to Hagai [Levi], who wrote and directed the series, in the very beginning, \u2018I\u2019m comfortable with all the nudity, but any part of my body that you show, you\u2019re going to have to show the same with Oscar,&#8217;\u201d the actress said during an appearance on \u201cThe View.\u201dChastain noted that there\u2019s a shower scene in episode two when she has to show intimate parts of her body for the camera \u2014 so Isaac had to, too.\u201cSo there\u2019s a shower scene that I have in episode two, and you see my body. So now you see his body,\u201d the 44-year-old said. \u201cSo for me, I wanted it to be balanced.\u201d\u201cThe View\u201d co-host Joy Behar chimed in that it\u2019s \u201ctypical for women\u2019s bodies\u201d to have to show nudity, seemingly offering support for Chastain\u2019s \u201cbalance\u201d stipulation.\u201cScenes of a Marriage\u201d also shows Chastain\u2019s character having an affair, reversing the \u201cgender stereotypes\u201d from the original version, which aired in 1973.The series, when it aired in 1973, \u201creportedly caused divorce rates in Sweden to skyrocket,\u201d one of the \u201cView\u201d cohosts said. \u201cIn this new version, the gender roles are swapped. So, now you have the wife (Chastain) as the primary breadwinner and is also the spouse who has the affair. So why was that important?\u201d she asked Chastain.\u201cWell, it was exciting to me, because, I think in our society, we acknowledge that men are complicated and have flaws and have sexual desires and needs and can be selfish, and we don\u2019t acknowledge those things in women,\u201d the actress replied. \u201cAnd I like to play women who are fully-fledged human beings, and I love the idea of showing women in their sexual desires and their wants.\u201dChastain also noted that there is far more \u201cshock\u201d over the female character having an affair than there was when the roles were reversed in the \u201973 version, apparently underscoring society\u2019s negative gender stereotypes.Isaac said he wasn\u2019t aware of just how much nudity there was for him on-screen until people started to talk about it online, Cosmo\u00a0highlighted.\u201cYou get sent the stuff to look at to be like, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m fine with that,\u2019\u201d the actor said, appearing alongside Chastain on \u201cThe View.\u201d \u201cBut I saw it on a laptop quite dark and I didn\u2019t notice what was happening down there. It was a surprise when I started seeing all these things like, \u2018It\u2019s full-frontal.\u2019 I was like, \u2018No, what are you talking about?\u2019 And I saw it, and clear as day on the big TV there, it\u2019s there for everyone to see.\u201dAccording to piece in The Atlantic, (which ripped the series apart), Chastain plays a woman named\u00a0Mira, \u201ca high-strung tech-company executive wrestling with the guilt of being more available for her job than for her daughter.\u201d And Isaac is cast as Jonathan, \u201ca philosophy professor and the family\u2019s homemaker struggling with his unconventional role. Together, they deliver anguished, nuanced portraits that are diminished by Levi\u2019s interruptions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}