Dame Joanna Lumley wants to ban sex scenes on TV: 'They're rude and horrible!'
Dame Joanna Lumley wants to ban sex scenes.
The 77-year-old actress loathes the idea of performing in the nude and admitted that if she had her way, she would "cut" all intimate scenes for good because they tend to distract the audience from the story.
She told the Radio Times: "The second you take your clothes off, the audience looks at you, the actor, and your attributes - what your breasts and genitals are like. You’ve immediately lost the character you’ve built.
“There’s a playground element to it - pull your pants down and let’s see what you’ve got. I’d cut them altogether. They slow things down.
“They’re rude and horrible. I don’t watch people on the lavatory!”
Meanwhile, the 'Fool Me Once' actress is now appearing in a Radio 4 sitcom 'Conversations from a Long Marriage' alongside Roger Allam and admitted that taking part in the show has made her realise that even though she is getting older she still feels young at heart.
She said: "I think people like to listen because it sounds like their own lives. It’s funny and light-hearted and also profound,” she said.
“There’s love and loss. Our characters realise they’re getting older - as do a lot of our listeners. I feel young but I know, by years, that I’m getting older!"
Joanna is best known for her role in 'Absolutely Fabulous' and starred as boozy fashion editor Patsy Stone in the classic BBC sitcom alongside Jennifer Saunders as hapless PR guru Edina Monsoon but recently admitted that the idea of a reboot would be "impossible" because of how the "world has changed" since it was aired in the 1990s.
She told Metro: "It’s entirely up to Jennifer and she’s said she doesn’t want to do anymore. Things have their time. It would be impossible to make that series now, if you think of Edina’s ghastly take on the world, her appalling snobbery and racism, their drug-taking, heavy drinking and Patsy’s chain-smoking and the fact they have the morals of alley cats.
“It was funny because we used to laugh at those things. Now people are very strict and they go, ‘This is setting a bad example’ couldn’t get away with it now – the world has changed."
