Samuel L. Jackson upset over lack of nudity in upcoming film
September 12th, 2008 by Scott Marks
Samuel L. Jackson in “Lakeview Terrace”
Samuel L. Jackson is outraged over a scene in the upcoming Lakeview Terrace that involves clothed strippers. The cop thriller is written and directed by Neil Labute whose In the Company of Men delivered the type of verbal venality one often associates with Nick St. John or Paul Schrader.
The reason for watering down the sex, violence and profanity is simple. There is more money to be made with a PG-13 rating.
Jackson told Showbiz Spy, “There is a big scene in this movie that is really great. It is a bachelor party, and we have three strippers at the party. But it is a PG movie, so there aren’t any titties. We have three strippers at the party, and none of them have their top off.
“How does that work? I’m like, come on! You could show the girl from the back, with her back bare. At least it gives a sense that she was naked.
“You can’t just show them in their bras and panties. You have forty drunken cops in a house with three strippers? And nobody is naked? I don’t f***ing think so!”
A source close to Emulsion Compulsion (God, how I’ve always wanted to write that) confirms Jackson’s ire. “Neil Labute did not want to make a PG-13,” the booking agent informed me. “The script I read was a hard R, but Sony decided they could make more money if it was PG-13.
“My client was supposed to do nudity, but when she got on set, they told her they changed it to a PG-13, so she would keep her clothes on. She was relieved.
“I told her about the Sam Jackson lack of boobage article and she said, ‘Sam was pissed off at me for the two days I was shooting, and I couldn’t figure out why. Now I know. It’s probably because I wouldn’t get naked.’”
Rumor has it that when Sam got ready to shoot the scene, he exclaimed, “HEY, WHERE ARE THE WHITE WOMEN AT???”
The film is produced by role model Will Smith which might explain the R avoidance.
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