British actress Helen Mirren may have won accolades for her innumerable performances and earned the title of a Dame of the British Empire, but she still regrets stripping off for nude movie scenes, insisting it has saddled her with a racy reputation.
The Calendar Girls star is embarrassed by her raunchy filmography and maintains she only ever stripped to avoid appearing a prude.
And she confesses that she was never comfortable with the nudity, despite claiming in 2004 that appearing nude was "so easy - like drinking a glass of orange on set".
"I might seem uninhibited but believe me, I'm not. I've always had a problem doing nudity. In fact, I hated it. It has never been a comfortable thing. I've never enjoyed it. It's always mortifying,” she was quoted by Contactmusic,as saying.
"I've never thought it necessary, ever. But I always felt it was something I should get over. I did those scenes because I didn't want to be uptight. Now I have got stuck in a way with a reputation for doing nude scenes," she added.
Helen Mirren regrets her onscreen stripping
