Aubrey Plaza claims the director told her to masturbate ‘as it says in the script’ in 2013

Aubrey Plaza claimed a director told her to actually masturbate while filming a scene for a 2013 movie.

The actress – now 38 years old – opened up about the awkward experience on the set of The To Do List during an interview with Conan O’Brien as of July 2013 who was recently unearthed following her fame with The White Lotus.

Since standard practice on movie sets would be the use of modesty barriers or even the use of prosthetics when actors simulate intimate scenes, Aubrey insisted she was a little surprised when writer and director Maggie Carey reportedly wrote in the script to actually do it.

She explained in the rediscovered interview, “In my mind I imagined a beautiful scene where you see my hand slowly moving out of the frame.

“I thought about that, but when I showed up, the camera was on the ceiling, I was wearing my underwear and a Clinton T-shirt, and there were a bunch of old men smoking, you know, the crew members. And then I started touching myself.’

Interesting: The actress – now 38 years old – opened up about the awkward experience on the set of The To Do List when she insisted she was a little surprised when writer and director Maggie Carey reportedly wrote in the script to actually do it

Aubrey — who wore a white T-shirt that read “Pro-choice Pro-Clinton” on it — insisted she had a different idea of ​​how the intimate scene would be filmed.

She explained, “I thought I was doing one thing and when I showed up it was something completely different, it was a full body shot.

“And I asked the director, ‘What should I do?’ And she said, “Masturbate like it’s in the script.”

Aubrey admitted at the time that she was afraid of filming the scene in an interview with Oregon Live.

She said, “Looking back on it, I feel like the masturbation scene was kind of the most nerve-wracking. Just because in my head I thought, “Oh, we’ll probably record this in a way where I don’t really have to.” But when we did and I was like, ‘Oh no, we’re going to shoot it where I’m doing it.

‘Even when my top fell off and I was running around with all those kids. You know I’m a method actor, so I was really topless, and I think I scarred some of those kids for life. So that was more nerve wracking for them, but they deserved it. ‘

The to-do list was centered around Aubrey’s character Brandy Klark, who makes a list of things to accomplish before entering college in the fall after feeling pressured to gain more sexual experience.

Aubrey recently reached the pinnacle of her fame when she was one of the main stars of the second season of the highly popular HBO series The White Lotus.

“In my head I imagined a beautiful scene where you see my hand slowly moving out of the frame”: she made the admission during a July 2013 interview with Conan O’Brien, recently unearthed following her fame with The White Lotus

‘I thought I was doing one thing and when I showed up it was something completely different, it was a full body shot’: Aubrey – who wore a white T-shirt that read ‘Pro-choice Pro-Clinton on it – claimed she had a different idea of ​​how the intimate scene would be filmed

Synopsis: The To Do List was centered around Aubrey’s character Brandy Klark, who makes a list of things to accomplish before entering college in the fall after feeling pressured to gain more sexual experience

Signature Role: Aubrey has recently reached the pinnacle of her fame as she was one of the main stars of the second season of the highly popular HBO series The White Lotus

She played Harper Spiller, a straightforward employment attorney married to tech entrepreneur Ethan (Will Sharpe) as they take their strained relationship to an Italian vacation with his college friend Cameron (Theo James) and Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy) and things sure get interesting. become.

The Wilmington, Delaware native has five upcoming projects, including starring in the Marvel series Agatha: Coven Of Chaos, which will stream on Disney+ later this year.