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Call The Midwife star says she would appear naked on screen aged 60

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Jenny Agutter, star of Call The Midwife, has insisted that she would still consider appearing naked on screen at the age of 60. The Taunton-born actress, who plays Sister Julienne in the BBC drama, said she was inspired by other older actresses undressing on camera. Miss Agutter, who first stripped off for the camera at 16 when she played a teenage schoolgirl in Walkabout, told the Evening Standard that she would not let age prevent her from doing so again. "Look at Stanley Kubrick's The Shining — there's an elderly woman naked in that," she added. "Would one say no to that? I might but someone else might not. "I watched the film and I didn't think, 'Whoa, naked woman who's older!' I just think it's part of the story." Miss Agutter, who lives on The Lizard in Cornwall, spoke in defence of older actresses baring their flesh after fellow actress Kim Cattrall, who played Samantha Jones in Sex and the City, voiced concerns that older women are never seen naked in British films. Ms Cattrall, 56, said other cultures celebrate the older female form in paintings and statues, but that in showbusiness, the moment women failed to be considered sexually attractive, they disappeared from public view. Miss Agutter said that when she made Walkabout she was uncomfortable being naked in front of strangers and got dressed "very, very fast" when the camera stopped rolling. She disclosed that when she was in her twenties, she rejected an offer of "several thousand pounds" to pose nude for Playboy because the magazine did not represent her values. The married mother-of-one, who was recognised with an OBE last year for her charitable work, suggested that one was only old as one felt. "If you don't spend your time looking in the mirror, you don't realise you are older — it's whatever age you feel and I've not really got past 35," she added. "I don't feel any different. One of the good things about playing a nun is that I don't have to spend a lot of time looking in the mirror."

Call The Midwife star says she would appear naked on screen aged 60


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