Claire Danes was nervous about nude scenes

[muchlove]

Actress CLAIRE DANES was so nervous about appearing nude in sex scenes opposite STEVE MARTIN in new movie SHOPGIRL, she asked her friends to convince her to do it.

The pretty ROMEO + JULIET star's character, MIRABELLE, disrobes for her first love scene with 60-year-old Martin in the story, which was penned by the actor himself.

And Danes admits it was far from easy to bare all.

She recalls, "A friend told me, 'It's good you're doing it at 25. When you're 80, you'll look back on this and think, I was pretty firm, so there's that.'

"It was uncomfortable, I have to say, but I did think that it was relevant and useful. Also, it's erotic. There's no reason to pussyfoot around that. I thought it was vital, so I stripped."

Danes insists she had no more problems stripping in front of Martin than she would have before someone of her own age.

She adds, "You're not supposed to be kissing somebody who's not your boyfriend. You're just not. I don't know when I'll become more comfortable with it. You have to depersonalise it."

Danes also found the sex scene wasn't the only difficult thing to shoot - she also struggled with a kissing scene with pal JASON SCHWARTZMAN.

She recalls, "We both did shots of vodka before we had to kiss... It was just too creepy."

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[calendargurl]

did Steve write this movie just so he could see boobies? has it been that long old man?

She sounds silly. Actresses have to kiss people. DUH!!!!

[ourmaninBusan]

I think that's pretty goddamn low
if he IS shopping around for young
actresses like this.

I remember a TV ad for a shitty movie of his
called "Bowfinger," which featured 29-year-old
Heather Graham and I thought he was trying to
sink his talons into her. Danes can't be
over 25...

[Osakan]

Love scenes with Steve Martin? Gross!

Bowfinger was a brilliant stab at Scientology & Hollywood! BRILLIANT!

[muchlove]

He wrote Shopgirl (the book) years ago! Unless he wrote it with the plans of making it into a movie and getting some young starlet to make out with him in it... then getting to make teh sex with Danes is just a nice perk.

[muchlove]

He wrote Shopgirl (the novel) years ago! Unless he wrote it with the plans of making it into a movie and getting some young starlet to make out with him in it... then getting to make teh sex with Danes is just a nice perk.

[stargazer]

I'd be disgusted too if I had to strip in front of Steve Martin. In addition to almost being a senior citizen, he's not good-looking.