Mary Louise Parker Still Fuming Over Nude Scene In Weeds
Posted by Karl Erikson at 10:45 AM on May 19, 2009
The new season of Weeds begins in a few weeks, but star Mary-Louise Parker is still angry about the nude scene she did for last season’s finale. She talked to MORE about that, being a single mom in the dating scene, and cosmetic surgery.
Regarding that infamous nude scene, Mary-Louise says she was okay with the sex scenes before that episode. It was the bathtub scene she had a problem with. “I didn’t think I needed to be naked, and I fought with the director about it, and now I’m bitter,” she says. “I knew it was going to be on the Internet: ‘Mary Louise shows off her big nipples.’ I wish I hadn’t done that. I was goaded into it.”
For their part, Weeds’ exec producer (Roberto Benabib), defends the scene. He claims the nudity was necessary. “We felt at that point in her life, her defenses had been so thoroughly stripped away, there was a nonchalance to the nudity that informed the scene.” Um yeah, that’s producer speak for, “She’s got great cans.”
All that isn’t to say Mary-Louise doesn’t love her character, playing a widowed mom who deals drugs to make ends meet. “I like it the more extreme it is,” she says. “Jenji Kohan [series’ creator] has been amazing in surprising me. But I don’t like it when it’s crass and crude for humor’s sake. And I don’t like it when it’s sentimental, when she’s a sweet mother. To me, she’s not that.”
Talking about dating, Mary-Louise says that there are men who are scared of the single parent thing. “I had someone ask, ‘Does this mean we can’t go out anytime we want?’ And I said, ‘Yes, that’s exactly what it means. It means you come fourth, because it’s my kids, my job, my family.’ I don’t ever want to come first to anyone. It’s too much pressure.”
Mary-Louise has two children: William Atticus Parker, 5, and Caroline, who she adopted a couple of years ago from Ethiopia. William’s dad is actor Billy Crudup.
She’s also very anti-cosmetic-surgery. She’s refused Botox or plastic surgery, even though she’s 44, an age which Hollywood starts balking at the “older women.”
“Somebody told me that they’d read that I had all this work done and showed me a picture, and it was totally airbrushed,” Mary-Louise said. “It made me so mad. I don’t like what that says to other women. I’m 44, and I look OK for 44. I’m not trying to look 34.”
OK? Mary-Louise, you look far better than OK. You’re gorgeous. Don’t change a thing.
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