Jameela Jamil ‘dropped out’ of a You audition for season four because she didn’t want to film any sex scenes.
Because The Good Place actress isn’t interested in recording any type of intimate scenes, she chose against auditioning for a mystery role in the blockbuster Netflix programme.
Appearing on the Podcrushed podcast, she told host and You star Penn Badgley: ‘I don’t do sex scenes. In fact, I was supposed to audition for the most recent season of your show…
‘My character was supposed to be quite sexy, and I pulled out of the audition, because I am so shy about anything sexy that I can’t.’
Jameela, 37, did not divulge the part she was supposed to audition for.
She did, however, joke about making a mistake after hearing Penn’s wish for ‘zero’ personal scenes on film.
She said: ‘And then you f***ing came out and were like, “Yeah, I’m not doing sex scenes anymore.” And I was like, “I didn’t even know that was a boundary that we could draw.” But then I was like, I should have gone and done the f***ing show!’
Jameela admitted she ‘can’t even watch sex scenes in films’, which she put down to a sense of ‘awkwardness’ rather than ‘shame’.
‘Even on my own, I have to fast forward through sex scenes because I’ve become so shy about watching other people,’ she added. ‘It’s not a shame. I feel there’s an awkwardness around it.’
Before they discussed the aborted audition, Jameela stated that she has never loved ‘objectifying’ herself.
She explained: ‘I don’t think I’ve ever been someone who would have enjoyed objectifying myself, personally. But that’s also because I have so much deep, like, childhood sexual trauma stuff.
‘So I think that was never in the cards for me. You know, I still wear the little skirt or the busty top, but like, occasionally. But generally, I feel quite protective of myself in that way.’
Meanwhile, Penn claims that his statements about minimising sex scenes in You were ‘blown out of proportion’ during advertising.
Back in March, he told GQ: ‘What I was speaking about wasn’t actually the final product.
‘It was sort of like the culture inherent to the production of all movies, but particularly those scenes. It’s like, look, we know that Hollywood has had a history of flagrant exploitation and abuse.’
You is available to stream on Netflix.
