‘The Crown’ Star Claire Foy Says She ‘Can’t Help But Feel Exploited’ While Filming Sex Scenes


Claire Foy is opening up about one of her least favorite aspects of her job: filming sex scenes

The Emmy Award-winning actor, who originated the role of Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s acclaimed royal drama, The Crown, stars in the upcoming limited series A Very British Scandal, the true story of Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll. Given the plot of the show, which explores the nude photo leak in 1963 that destroyed Campbell’s reputation, including more intimate scenes was deemed necessary. In a new interview with BBC4 Radio, Foy was honest about how uncomfortable certain moments were to shoot.

“It’s a really hard line because basically you do feel exploited when you are a woman and you are having to perform fake sex on screen. You can’t help but feel exploited,” she said, per People. “It’s grim – it’s the grimmest thing you can do.” 

“You feel exposed. Everyone can make you try to not feel that way but it’s, unfortunately, the reality,” she added, explaining, “But my thing was that I felt very strongly that it had to be in it, but I wanted it to be female. I did not want it to be that sort of awful climactic sexual experience you often see on the cinema screen.”

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Later in the interview, Claire Foy discussed a shift in the industry that she has witnessed that has helped her learn to speak up for herself and others. “I can only speak from personal experience as opposed to like a cultural revolution kind of way, but I feel like there is a room and an acceptance now that I never would have had,” she said. “There will be scenarios at work, for example, where things will be happening that I would feel were wrong, but I was told that I wasn’t right by society. And now what happens is there’s a forum for me and my friends and my colleagues where, if something’s wrong, there’s someone who goes, ‘Yes, I’m affirming that is actually wrong.'” 

The actor also denounced the term “slut-shaming” wholeheartedly during the interview, saying she believes the word “slut” shouldn’t exist in any context. 

“I hate the phrase slut-shaming, I absolutely hate it. But I think that women have basically been slut-shamed forever. I think Eve probably was slut-shamed,” she said. “There is something about it that I just hate, the rephrasing of the ownership of that title and it being used in a way which justifies it even more. Just the word ‘slut’ shouldn’t probably exist.”

You can listen to the full BBC4 interview, here.




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