Julie Andrews Discusses Her “Legitimate” Topless Scene

Screen legend Julie Andrews was a guest on The Graham Norton Show recently alongside Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, and Pharrell Williams, leaving us to wonder what the booking agent for the show was smoking the day he set this lineup. 

Norton asked her about one of the most shocking moments in Julie's career, which was her topless scene in her late husband Blake Edwards' 1981 film S.O.B. Julie had done some accidental nudity prior to this is 1970's Darling Lili, but never anything like the brazen nudity she agreed to for her husband's film. Andrews aims to set the record straight however, declaring the nudity to be "legitimate."

"I had to go topless but it was very legitimate," Andrews said, to which Hill rebutted, "super legitimate." "It was legitimately in the script is what I'm saying," Andrews replied to a lot of laughter, and Tatum summed it up best by saying, "beautiful movie."

When pressed further by Norton as to whether or not people had told her not to do the nudity, she rebuffed. "No, no, no. I'd done an awful lot by then. It took ten years to get the film made, so I had ten years to think about it, and it was in the script, and it was, as I said, quite legitimate. It just can be cold in the studio," she says turning to Tatum, "didn't you find that?" "And it's a lot worse when it's cold for us," Tatum replied.

Well played, sir. Well played.