For a piece in today’s Calendar section about actresses and nudity in Oscar-winning roles, the Los Angeles Times‘ Rachel Abramowitz talks to Marisa Tomei about her on-screen nudity in both Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and The Wrestler, and the well-toned actress pooh-poohs talk about a new direction for her career: “I happened to get offered The Wrestler after I did that movie,” she says. “It’s not like I’m in my nude phase now.”
Standard stuff that, somewhat refreshingly, mostly rises above knee-jerk claims of sexism, except for the factually incorrect assertion that, “Every day, actresses such as Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson and Eliza Dushku seem to be swearing off nudity like teenagers joining abstinence clubs.” Dushku in fact appears briefly nude in The Alphabet Killer, a recent DVD release.
