Minnie Driver claims producers for 1998’s Arduous Rain advised her she couldn’t put on a wetsuit as a result of “they needed to see my nipples.”
The Good Will Searching actress mentioned on Mondays’ episode of the I Weigh with Jameela Jamil podcast that she was made to really feel like “an fool” when she pushed again on a fancy dress resolution for the catastrophe motion thriller, regardless of filming in “20 million gallons of water.”
“It’s set throughout this large storm,” she defined. “There have been big rain machines. We shot loopy hours. It was powerful. … Everyone else may put on a wetsuit beneath their costume, and I used to be advised by the producers that I couldn’t as a result of they needed to see my nipples, and that there was no level in having the moist T-shirt for those who couldn’t have what was beneath it.”
Arduous Rain costume designer Kathleen Detoro advised The Hollywood Reporter in an announcement Wednesday that “the costume division ordered customized made to order wets fits for all solid (together with Minnie Driver) and crew,” including that “solid had many wetsuits, full, shorties, tops bottoms and booties.” She concluded, “No expense was spared. The movie occurred within the water and flood for nearly the complete movie.”
Driver didn’t identify the producers in her feedback on Monday, however added that she didn’t “perceive that that is what’s happening” when she challenged the choice on the time and was in the end “punished” for it.
“I bear in mind saying that is fallacious. I bear in mind calling my agent,” the Speechless actress mentioned. “I then bear in mind it being like, boy, folks wouldn’t converse to me on the set. I used to be so punished for it. It was leaked to the press that I known as and complained about circumstances, but it surely was as if there was nothing to complain about and I used to be simply complaining. It’s this gaslighting. Media gaslighting that’s supported by the surroundings that you just’re in. … So ultimately, you do activate your self, you do go, ‘It’s my fault for saying something, you silly massive mouth. It’s best to’ve shut up.’”
Arduous Rain, directed by Mikael Salomon and starring Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater, sees a small city pressured to evacuate when torrential rains deliver rising flooding waters. Nevertheless, native residents be taught a bunch is planning a heist of $3 million from native banks in the course of the catastrophe and work to cease it.
The movie’s producers Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon and Gary Levinsohn couldn’t be reached for remark.