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"I felt part of the solution every single day."
Thandie Newton could be forgiven for freaking out when she was first handed the details of her Westworld role.
"They said, 'So, you're going to play a madam in a brothel and you're going to do a lot of it naked. Is that cool with you?' she told audience members at the Paleyfest Q&A in Los Angeles. "I said, 'Do you know that I fight violence against women? That's what I do in my spare time. You know, I like to feel that it's not gratuitous, being without clothes on.'"
Playing Maeve Millay, a (mostly naked) robot 'host' in the HBO show about a fantasy theme park, might have seemed challenging enough for anyone. But given Newton's passionate activism it might have been even less of a viable choice for the actress. But then she saw how the show cleverly empowered her character and others, like Evan Rachel Wood's Dolores, who suffer violence and oppression.
"They told me the reason why the set-up had to be as extreme as it is," Newton said. "The point we're trying to make is: Look where we are, and is there a way out from here? So I was just thrilled with excitement, with where the show could not only take us as actors, but the audience, and—it's hyperbolic—but the world." Hinting at the current political climate, she added, "Here we are right now at a crossroads, and Westworld , for me anyway, is going to be part of the solution, not the problem, and that's the exciting thing about playing this character."
Unfortunately, not every role on offer is as complex and satisfying, Newton said. But the Westworld role actually ended up being a perfect blend of both Newton's on-screen acting work and her off-screen drive to empower women. "With roles for women, it's tough out there, and very often I feel like I have to put my activism behind when I go to work. I have to just be the actor and do what I have to do. I was an activist every single day I went to work [on]. I felt part of the solution every single day."
With Season 2 slated for next year, we have a while to wait for the next installment. Sadly, Newton wasn't giving us any clues. She said she has "no idea" what's coming up. "Rather than expending energy trying to imagine what it's going to be, I'm just chilling right now."

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If HBO had a tagline, it'd probably be: "We have the nudity." Shows like Game of Thrones and True Blood have used nudity, often female, often sexual, without hesitation. But it was the network's latest smash hit, sci-fi show Westworld , that got audiences thinking about the naked body in a new way. (Spoilers for *Westworld ahead!)
When we meet Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton), she's a savvy woman making money the only way she knows how in a small Old West town: as a brothel owner. We soon find out she also takes clients herself, but moreover, she's really a humanoid robot working at an amusement park. Before she was programmed for sex work, she'd had a "daughter" and a whole other "life." Eventually Maeve figures this out too and fights back against her captors, usually while she's being "reprogrammed" at night…when she's naked. The symbolism here is stark. In the park, when clothed in the outfit of a sex worker, Maeve is literally a sex object, being controlled by a computer that is in turn controlled by, usually (but not always), men . Underground, when she's in her "natural" state (though in this case it's unnatural; she was built, not born), she's free to act on her "animal" (robot) instincts. To put it bluntly, she's naked when she does most of her murdering, and it's totally badass.
Now actress Thandie Newton has made it clear that, yes, doing those naked scenes is more empowering than playing the theme park version of Maeve. "I was more comfortable naked because the costume was the most potent objectification of a woman, with the boobs pushed right up, the tiny waist. It's an invitation for sex," Newton said in a conversation with Jed Mercurio, per Us Weekly . "The fishnet tights, the little heels with the laces…It's all about sensuality. It's about eroticism. It's about, 'Look, but don't touch.' It's all there to make the invitation for sex as provocative as possible and then the promise of satisfaction is practically just there."
She also said, in an earlier conversation with The Daily Beast , that she wore a robe between takes so she could talk to the crew without it being any kind of distraction, and that the atmosphere on set was completely professional. “People treated me with respect, like they were grateful for how committed I was to trying to tell the story right," she said. "When you truly expose yourself, when you truly show that you have nothing to hide, people are tender towards you.”
She also added that some of her character's most emotional moments came when she was unclothed, and it was a welcome break from the usual raunchy TV fare: “We associate nudity with sex," she said. "Not with vulnerability. Not with tenderness.” Season one explored that problem with great dexterity; we can only hope season two gives us even more.
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Remember earlier today, when HBO sounded like the most cavalier non-porn entertainment hub in the U.S. after it was reported that the upcoming sci-fi thriller Westworld had some particularly ridiculous stipulations in the contracts for the show’s extras? It’s not every day you read the words “genital-to-genital touching.” As it turns out, though, the network was not actually behind those descriptions, and even though we’ll probably get our fair share of sex scenes in the show, it probably won’t be quite as graphic as we were led to believe.
After all the genital demands hit the fan, HBO started the finger pointing, and the company getting the blame is the network’s extras agency Central Casting, which is responsible for putting together all of the non-major players for the show. Here’s how HBO put it.
The document that the background actors were given was created by an outside extras casting vendor. It was not requested, written or approved by HBO, Warner Bros. Television, or the producers, and contains situations that we do not require of any actor. We are rectifying immediately the discrepancies in this vendor’s document with our actual on-set practices, which provide a professional and comfortable working environment for all performers.
What, being “on all fours while others who are fully nude ride on your back” doesn’t count as a comfortable working environment these days? In all seriousness, if these contractual obligations really are so far off of the mark, it seems likely that HBO would react strongly to Central Casting, either by ending their terms with them or suing them or something. But at this point, the network hasn’t announced how they’ll be moving forward with that partnership.
But just because HBO has not-really-apologized and agreed to rectify the situation, that doesn’t mean it’s totally out of the woods for having its name attached to wearing a pubic hair patch as a job requirement. According to Deadline , SAG-AFTRA is saying that while its members are pleased that HBO has taken at least one step in the right direction, it took far too long for the network to react to the sex act consent form being out there.
Here’s what a SAG-AFTRA spokesman had to say.
SAG-AFTRA sent the consent form to HBO [Tuesday] afternoon and requested that the document be changed to more accurately reflect the contractual provisions. HBO had every opportunity to rectify this situation, and it was only after their direct refusal to remedy this that we posted the notice on our website. The union is very pleased to hear that HBO is doing the right thing now, but it is disappointing that we had to take such public measures to ensure compliance with our contracts and protect our background actors.
That definitely adds an interesting wrinkle to this entire affair, and it seems possible that HBO really didn’t care if this was the list going out to potential extras. After all, if the people agreed to this stuff, they’d agree to anything that Westworld ’s creative team asked them to do. What do you guys think?
Based on the Michael Crichton movie and developed by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Westworld will star Anthony Hopkins , Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright and many more, and it'll center on an android-filled theme park where everyone's darkest sins can be realized. It's set to premiere in 2016.
Nick is a Cajun Country native, and is often asked why he doesn't sound like that's the case. His love for his wife and daughters is almost equaled by his love of gasp-for-breath laughter and gasp-for-breath horror. A lifetime spent in the vicinity of a television screen led to his current dream job, as well as his knowledge of too many TV themes and ad jingles.
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Remember earlier today, when HBO sounded like the most cavalier non-porn entertainment hub in the U.S. after it was reported that the upcoming sci-fi thriller Westworld had some particularly ridiculous stipulations in the contracts for the show’s extras? It’s not every day you read the words “genital-to-genital touching.” As it turns out, though, the network was not actually behind those descriptions, and even though we’ll probably get our fair share of sex scenes in the show, it probably won’t be quite as graphic as we were led to believe.
After all the genital demands hit the fan, HBO started the finger pointing, and the company getting the blame is the network’s extras agency Central Casting, which is responsible for putting together all of the non-major players for the show. Here’s how HBO put it.
The document that the background actors were given was created by an outside extras casting vendor. It was not requested, written or approved by HBO, Warner Bros. Television, or the producers, and contains situations that we do not require of any actor. We are rectifying immediately the discrepancies in this vendor’s document with our actual on-set practices, which provide a professional and comfortable working environment for all performers.
What, being “on all fours while others who are fully nude ride on your back” doesn’t count as a comfortable working environment these days? In all seriousness, if these contractual obligations really are so far off of the mark, it seems likely that HBO would react strongly to Central Casting, either by ending their terms with them or suing them or something. But at this point, the network hasn’t announced how they’ll be moving forward with that partnership.
But just because HBO has not-really-apologized and agreed to rectify the situation, that doesn’t mean it’s totally out of the woods for having its name attached to wearing a pubic hair patch as a job requirement. According to Deadline , SAG-AFTRA is saying that while its members are pleased that HBO has taken at least one step in the right direction, it took far too long for the network to react to the sex act consent form being out there.
Here’s what a SAG-AFTRA spokesman had to say.
SAG-AFTRA sent the consent form to HBO [Tuesday] afternoon and requested that the document be changed to more accurately reflect the contractual provisions. HBO had every opportunity to rectify this situation, and it was only after their direct refusal to remedy this that we posted the notice on our website. The union is very pleased to hear that HBO is doing the right thing now, but it is disappointing that we had to take such public measures to ensure compliance with our contracts and protect our background actors.
That definitely adds an interesting wrinkle to this entire affair, and it seems possible that HBO really didn’t care if this was the list going out to potential extras. After all, if the people agreed to this stuff, they’d agree to anything that Westworld ’s creative team asked them to do. What do you guys think?
Based on the Michael Crichton movie and developed by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Westworld will star Anthony Hopkins , Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright and many more, and it'll center on an android-filled theme park where everyone's darkest sins can be realized. It's set to premiere in 2016.
Nick is a Cajun Country native, and is often asked why he doesn't sound like that's the case. His love for his wife and daughters is almost equaled by his love of gasp-for-breath laughter and gasp-for-breath horror. A lifetime spent in the vicinity of a television screen led to his current dream job, as well as his knowledge of too many TV themes and ad jingles.
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