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Þegar það gerist (TV) (1998)

In one scene 12-year-old actor Steinar Torfi Vilhjalmsson, playing Krumma, watches her real-life mother Unnur Steinsson, playing Lilju, naked and having sex with Bjarna's character. Steinsson said, "I think it was very hard for him. I do not remember him feeling uncomfortable seeing his mother in the arms of a stranger. But he had been dreaming of acting in a movie for a long time and it was certainly significant for him."

https://timarit.is/page/1921765#page/n57/mode/2up
1998 December, 6
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Apt Pupil (1998)

April 16 was not a good day for director Bryan Singer. On his way to the Sherman Oaks, Calif., set of Apt Pupil, his first film since The Usual Suspects, he got a flat tire on the Pacific Coast Highway. He dragged himself through a long shooting day while suffering from the flu and didn’t take a break until 6 p.m. And when he sat down to dinner with screenwriter Brandon Boyce, a crew member whispered some very bad news in his ear: A 14-year-old extra named Devin St. Albin had filed a lawsuit claiming that the filmmakers had ordered him and other minors to strip for a scene that was shot in the showers of a school locker room.
Singer excused himself from the table, conferred with the producers, and decided to return to work. But a few hours later, after trying to film a technically difficult shot, he gave up. ”I’m about to die,” he said.
Two weeks earlier, on the morning of April 2, a dozen-odd extras had arrived at the gymnasium of Altadena’s Elliot Middle School to shoot a scene from Apt Pupil, the Stephen King adaptation starring Brad Renfro as a teenager obsessed with a Nazi war criminal (Ian McKellen). What actually happened after the extras entered the locker room has now become the subject of two lawsuits — two more boys are now supporting St. Albin’s claim — and the centerpiece of an ongoing argument about the rights and welfare of child actors.
According to St. Albin, a 17-year-old plaintiff named Ryan Glomboske, and Peter Gordon, the attorney for a third minor, 16-year-old David Stockdale, the boys — local high school athletes recruited by the production — were asked to bring bathrobes to the set to film a nightmare sequence in which shower stalls turn into gas chambers. While the parents of the minors sat in the gym, the extras — who ranged in age from adolescents to geriatrics — were led into a locker room and instructed to change into sheer peach-colored G-strings provided by the wardrobe department. ”Nobody really said anything, but we looked at each other. We were uncomfortable,” says St. Albin. ”You could hear everyone saying ‘What the heck is that?”’ Glomboske remembers. ”People were nervous.”
According to St. Albin and Glomboske (who is joining his suit), the extras, wearing their robes over the G-strings, were ushered past the parents into the shower-room set, where they were told to take off their bathrobes. Then, say St. Albin and Glomboske, they were asked by assistant directors Fernando Altschul and Tom DeSantos to remove their G-strings.
”I looked around for help, for someone to say, ‘There are minors here,”’ says St. Albin. ”I raised my hand and said I wasn’t comfortable. The assistant director looked very upset and said, ‘I guess we can switch you with this other kid.’ They gave me a towel to put on over the G-string” and moved him out of clear sight, next to the lockers.
Glomboske says that he moved closer to a shower head to shield himself but, unlike the other extras, did not remove his G-string. After filming the scene, Glomboske says he was approached by a frustrated assistant director, who asked him why he hadn’t undressed. ”I said I was a minor,” says Glomboske, who asserts that after an informal conference between crew members about what one of them called ”a minor problem,” he was assured that it was not illegal for him to be filmed nude.
But Glomboske says legalities weren’t foremost on his mind at the moment he was asked to unclothe. “If they had taken me aside, it would have been one thing,” says Glomboske. But “they got frustrated and came back and asked me in front of everyone if I minded taking it off. I felt like I would have been a wuss if I hadn’t.” All three teenagers are claiming trauma from the experience, charging the filmmakers with, among other things, infliction of emotional distress, negligence, and invasion of privacy.

https://ew.com/article/1997/05/02/indecent-proposal-set-apt-pupil/
1997 May, 2
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Nena (1998)

Nerea Barros's debut. She was 15 years old when Xavier Bermúdez chose her for this film, in which she had to play a scene totally naked. "Xabier explained to me and my parents what the role consisted of and that everything was justified and necessary for the film. It was a character who was far away from me because I never fell in love with a person much older than me, but every boy has platonic loves and that could happen," Barros said. But there was a misunderstanding at school with nudity. "The director and the head of studies called my house so that my parents could talk to them because they thought I was going to make a porn movie..."

https://issuu.com/santiagosiete/docs/090925_santiagosiete_126/24
2009 September, 30
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Für immer und immer (1997)

In this adoption drama Lili Bohm plays an adopted girl. In real life she is an adoptive daughter of director and actor Hark Bohm. He is father of four adoptive children and two foster children.

https://www.berliner-kurier.de/archiv/wie-die-vaeter-so-auch-die-toechter-li.1459026
1999 September, 22
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Sara (1997)

Agnieszka Włodarczyk, to appear nude in the film "Sara", needed the consent of her mother Anny Stasiukiewicz. She was her who persuaded her daughter to play in the film and began her career in show business. - My mother led me to the castings when I was still a child. I wanted to sing, play, so that everything would revolve around me. I think I wanted to be famous. (...) Mom always walked on high heels and in mini. When I was 14 years old, she told me to dress like that - once the actress told in the magazine "Glamor".
Before Agnieszka Włodarczyk played in "Sara" she appeared in the contest Miss Poland Teen. At the age of 15, she played in the Metro musical at the Studio Buffo theater. Unfortunately, after the participation in the film between Agnieszka Włodarczyk and her mother, a conflict began...
Fortunately, after many years, mother and daughter reconciled. Agnieszka Włodarczyk tried to explain her mother. - Rather, she wanted me to become financially independent, so that I would not count, like other women, only for their husbands or lovers - said the actress in "Vivie."
Agnieszka Włodarczyk very rarely mentions the scenes taken apart in "Sara". - I am reluctant to talk about "Sara" and undressing on the screen. It was unnecessary, I was experiencing it too much. On the other hand, if I did not play in "Sara", my career would not have been so fast - she said.

https://www.fakt.pl/kobieta/plotki/zadebiutowala-nago-na-ekranie-agnieszka-wlodarczyk-sara/kzgelnq
2017 May, 23
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La bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996)

- In La Bouche de Jean-Pierre, there are certain rather "complex" sequences to shoot, whether for adults or for you. I am thinking more particularly of the touching of the famous Jean-Pierre. How did you approach them?
-Regarding the famous scene of the living room I am sure with hindsight that this scene was harder for Michel than for me! He was filming with his adult spirit and he must have dreaded this scene ... I had no text to learn, nor any particular gestures to adopt, I was quite free. Ten minutes before I still didn't know what the next scene was going to be, I didn't have to prepare for a particularly difficult scene and it was explained to me like a child! A bit like a game ... No one has ever spoken to me brutally saying "this is a touching scene, you are facing a pedophile, it will be hard"! That's why I had no apprehension, some embarrassment to be sure, but (I repeat) for me it was all just a game !!

Interview with Sandra Sammartino at

https://www.letempsdetruittout.net/sandra-sammartino-en
2005 September, 4
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

Ron Eldard spent a lot of time playing sports with Jena Malone so they would both feel comfortable performing the scenes in which he is physically abusing her. He claimed that in no scene did inappropriate contact with Malone take place, and that for scenes in which he appears to grab her by the throat, he is actually only holding her by his fingertips. Eldard was adamant that the graphic depiction of sexual abuse and rape was a necessity for the film.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115633/trivia/
added: 2024 November, 9
Ggotip (1996)

Lee Jung-hyun was 15 years old during filming and her full nude scenes became a social controversy at the time in South Korea. At the time the actress said, "It's natural as an actor to work hard to do well because film is an art and nude exposure is a scene of that art."

https://www.sportsseoul.com/news/read/325547
2015 November, 27
added: 2024 November, 9
Søndagsengler (1996)

Some Americans guaranteed to notice as Theisen in "Søndagsengler" - as the most natural thing in the world - is nude in a forest pond . Presenting a young actor this way - she was 15 years old during the filming - never happens in serious American movies.
- They are a little stricter with nudity here, and maybe this scene may be a bit difficult for them. But it is well done and absolutely necessary for the context of "Søndagsengler," Theisen says.

https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/oscar-marie---her-bor-jeg-gjerne/65408382
1997 March, 21
added: 2024 November, 9
Stealing Beauty (1996)

Liv Tyler admitted she bitterly fought against appearing topless in this movie. “I was like, ‘No way, sorry,” she had said after reading the “Stealing Beauty” script calling for her to appear au natural.
“Of course the thought of showing your body parts is a terrifying thought-I find it terrifying. Let alone the whole world. And I fought it until the very end,” she said. However, this time Tyler eventually lost her argument and lost her top in Bernardo Bertolucci’s coming of age film.

https://archive.siasat.com/news/liv-tyler-goes-nude-196070/
2011 May, 27
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