About naked scenes in The Substance. Not only is it hard to imagine “anyone feeling okay and comfortable with being filmed like that”, we know for sure that the actress didn’t feel comfortable! From an interview with Margaret Qualley for The Sunday Times:
…A scene where her character, Sue, is wearing skimpy aerobics gear and leading a sexed-up dance class full of squats and gyrating was more challenging: “That specific kind of sexuality doesn’t lend itself to me.” She sobbed in the bathroom while first rehearsing it, then learnt the routine in private (“because I was so deeply ashamed”) before they filmed. “And still, day of, I just got wasted first thing in the morning because I was like, I can’t do this in front of everybody,” she says. A combination of weed and tequila provided Dutch courage.