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Samantha Morton has revealed she was branded ‘difficult’ for refusing to do sex scenes as a teenager.
The actress, 47, was just 16-years-old when she was asked by directors to strip for the camera and show her breasts on set of ITV’s Band Of Gold.
But as she felt ‘massively uncomfortable’ to do so, she would then get considered difficult.
Six years later, Samantha broke down in tears after a male director told her ‘Take off your bra, I want to see your nipples’ in front of the whole crew on set of a new movie when she was 23-years-old.
After suffering two memorable and uncomfortable incidents, Samatha claims that ‘it wouldn’t happen today’ because of ‘how far we’ve come’.
Samantha Morton, 47, has revealed she was branded ‘difficult’ for refusing to do sex scenes as a teenager
The actress was just 16-years-old when she was asked by directors to strip for the camera and show her breasts on set of ITV ‘s Band Of Gold (pictured on the programme in 1996)
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Samantha said: I’d been working since I was 12 and did Band Of Gold at 16, where there were sex scenes I was massively uncomfortable about.
‘Directors would ask me to get my breasts out and I didn’t want to so I was considered difficult.’
She added: ‘When I was 23 I was on a movie and the director said through his megaphone, “Take off your bra, I want to see your nipples”, in front of the whole crew. I burst into tears. I didn’t see how it would make the film better. We’ve come a long way, that wouldn’t happen today.’
Last year, Samantha claimed Harvey Weinstein tried to destroy her career when she was in her early twenties.
Harvey is currently in jail after being found guilty of sex crimes and rape charges in February 2020.
She accused the disgraced producer of threatening to make sure she would ‘not work again’ after she turned down an approach to be in his 2000 romantic comedy About Adam, which starred Kate Hudson, Stuart Townsend and Frances O’Connor.
She recalled on The Louis Theroux Podcast: ‘I said, “I don’t like it. I think the film is really misogynistic and I don’t want to be part of it”.’
The Minority Report actress said the casting director then told her: ‘You don’t say no to Harvey.’
Six years later, Samantha broke down in tears after a male director told her ‘Take off your bra, I want to see your nipples’ in front of the whole crew on set of a new movie when she was 23
After suffering two memorable and uncomfortable incidents, Samatha claims that ‘it wouldn’t happen today’ because of ‘how far we’ve come’.
Samantha said: I’d been working since I was 12 and did Band Of Gold at 16, where there were sex scenes I was massively uncomfortable about. Directors would ask me to get my breasts out and I didn’t want to so I was considered difficult’
She added: ‘When I was 23 I was on a movie and the director said through his megaphone, “Take off your bra, I want to see your nipples”, in front of the whole crew. I burst into tears’ (pictured on Band Of Gold in 1995)
But Samantha stressed she wasn’t rejecting the producer, just the film – and was issued with a chilling warning when she refused to change her stance.
She said: ‘I had just worked with Stuart Townsend on Under The Skin. It was just not interesting to me. I was uber-polite.
‘I [then] had a phone call saying, “You can’t say no.” The “no” wasn’t being listened to. So they kept coming back with this role and I was told unequivocally,
‘You’re not going to work again unless you do this role. I’m going to make your life hell. You will not work again.’
The Whale actress refused to give in and admitted she felt her decision cost her roles on some of Weinstein’s later films, including being passed in favour of Lena Headey for a role in 2005’s The Brothers Grimm opposite Matt Damon and Heath Ledger after the producer deemed her ‘unf****able’.
Throughout her early childhood, Samantha grew up in various children’s homes. At 13 years old, during her stay at one of her homes, she was abused by her care workers who she trusted and the police did nothing about her case.
In her view the care system for young people is still ‘completely broken’, ‘beyond repair’ and ‘has to be completely re-thought from the ground up’.
Because of her experience, she confesses that she ‘always felt like an outsider, being and growing up in care, being a child of the state’.
She says she loved living in New York because she felt as though everyone was accepted there, a feeling that she never experienced in the UK as a child.
Going on to discuss her love of America, Samantha admits how she also preferred working in the US and how the sets always felt ‘more comfortable’.
She comments that, as a young woman on film sets in the UK, she was often asked to do things that ‘wouldn’t happen now’ and got a reputation for being ‘tricky’.
She states ‘I didn’t have the skillset to articulate when I was uncomfortable or when something didn’t feel right’. She said that she ‘never had these problems in America’.
