Christina Ricci: ‘Someone Threatened to Sue Me Because I Didn’t Want to Do a Sex Scene’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Christina Ricci revealed on a recent episode of “The View” (via Entertainment Weekly) that she once got threatened over refusing to perform a sex scene in a certain way.
The “Yellowjackets” star was asked by the talk show’s hosts how film and television sets have changed over the years for young woman, to which she said they’re heard more clearly when they state their boundaries. “It’s really great,” Ricci said. “Us older ladies talk about it all the time.
It’s amazing to see that they don’t necessarily have to go through the things we had to go through. They’re able to say, ‘I don’t want to do this sex scene,’ ‘I’m not going to be naked.’ They can set boundaries for themselves that we were never allowed to do.” Ricci added, “Someone threatened to sue me once because I didn’t want to do this sex scene in a certain way.
It’s really changed and it’s great to see.” During a conversation last year with “Euphoria” Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney as part of Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, Ricci mentioned that she was once threatened with a lawsuit on a movie set.
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