Debra Messing Was Tricked into Nude Scene by Movie Director

It didn't take very long for Will & Grace star Debra Messing to realize that she couldn't trust anyone in Hollywood. Messing says that she was mislead when she was told to sign a nudity waiver for her very first movie role. She got an even bigger shock when she confronted the movie's director about the issue. Read on to find out what happened.

Via People.

Debra Messing revealed that she was sexually harassed on her very first Hollywood film.

Speaking at a roundtable hosted by The Hollywood Reporter, Messing recalled a disturbing series of incidents on the set of 1995’s A Walk in the Clouds.

“It wasn’t until we started having these conversations that I realized I had been sexually harassed,” the Will & Grace star, 49, began. “I had said, ‘Oh, that’s the business. And then all of a sudden, I was like, ‘Wait a minute, no, that’s not the business. I was sexually harassed.’ ”

When she arrived on set for the scene, Messing said the producers changed their story. “They said, ‘OK, this is your lingerie for the first part and this is your nude scene.’ And I said, ‘Nude scene?’ They’re like, ‘Oh, yeah.’ And the producers were there and I went in and I was like, ‘Wait a minute, we talked on the phone, you said that it wasn’t gonna happen, it’s PG-13.’ And they’re like, ‘Not in international.’ ”

Messing said things “got worse” when she asked director Alfonso Arau how the scene would be shot. “I’m like, ‘You know, I like to be prepared, can you tell me where the angles are?’ And [Arau] literally said, ‘How dare you ask me to tell you what my shot is going to be? You are an actress, it’s your job to get naked.’ ”

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