Producers Of ‘Femme Fatales’ Are Going To Sue This Actress For Refusing To Get Nude

The producers of the Cinemax series Femme Fatales have been given the go-ahead to file a countersuit against Anne Lee Greene, an actress who is suing them for a multitude of indiscretions including bullying, sexual harassment, and an unsafe work environment. Those seem like legitimate reasons to sue, so why are they countersuing? Because she refused to get nude.

According to The Hollywood Reporter (link below), producers allege that Greene breached her "nudity rider" because she refused to film a nude sex scene. Now Greene has technically never appeared nude in a film, though the top of her areola popped out--as seen above--when she was getting sliced in half in 2010's Saw 3D. So why'd she take the role in Femme Fatales?

Greene says she never would have agreed to the job if she knew it involved "soft-core porn." She says she only went ahead with simulated sexual intercourse "under duress," the result of a $100,000-plus threat for breaching her contract, and that the producers violated multiple union rules and regulations, including the requirement to have a closed set and a requirement to make the performer aware in writing to any script changes involving explicit nudity and depiction of sexual intercourse.

Okay, so she was mislead? Not so, say the producers.

Greene never expressed reservations when she agreed to play the part of Kendra for a Femme Fatales episode entitled "Jailbreak." Her contract included a personal release and nudity rider. She was given a DVD copy of a prequel episode.

It was only at the last moment, according to True Crime, that Greene expressed her discomfort with a scene featuring simulated oral sex. The producer says it "accommodated Greene's concern and revised the script" and didn't "attempt to convince, persuade or coerce Greene to perform any scenes against her will or to which she expressed objection or discomfort."

Then, on the second day of shooting, before Greene was to simulate nude sex with a male actor, she objected to being topless. With no time to replace her, she was fitted with "pasties" to obscure her nipples. But this allegedly violated an HBO rule.

Wait a second, HBO has a no pasties rule? I love that network for so many reasons. 

"The True Crime representative knew the 'Pasties' would show on film and therefore require True Crime to hire a body double and spend substantial time editing (both at significant unbudgeted expense) just to get the frontal partially nude shots called for in the scene, and would not be compliant with HBO's policy prohibiting the use of 'Pasties' in sex scenes," stated the counterclaims. "Nevertheless, the True Crime representative agreed to accommodate Greene's wishes in order to mitigate and minimize True Crime's losses."

What a twisted, sordid affair. Can't wait to see how it all shakes out. 

Via The Hollywood Reporter