Gina Gershon is no stranger to showing skin on camera, but she doesn’t agree with the need for gratuitous onscreen nudity.
In her new memoir AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs, the actress recalled learning to “trust my gut” when she turned down a topless role in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981).
“At the time, those kinds of slasher movies always had girls dying with their breasts exposed,” she wrote. “My character would be killed by a stake through the heart, blood dripping down her tits. That seemed pretty lame to me: exploitation 101.”
Gershon added, “My dad may have died too soon, but he taught me many valuable lessons in the 19 years I had with him. Mainly, he taught me to trust myself in making my own decisions.”
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