Nollywood actress and model, Nancy Isime has shared her thoughts on actors and actresses playing roles for nude scenes.
In an interview on TV3’s The Afternoon Show, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, Nancy said casting roles for nude scenes is a matter of personal choice for actors.
She explained that creatives need not to abandon their values and morals because of the space they find themselves, urging them to consider these factors in choosing roles to play in movies.
Nancy Isime noted that several actors have been successful in their careers without acting nude scenes just as others have also been successful despite acting nude scenes.
“The beautiful thing about being a creative is your unique experience and everything has to be in it. Your nature, your moral background, your likes, your do’s and don’ts, as a human being you have to come with that so when you enter into a career either, a photographer, videographer, as a cameraman, whatever work you have to take that with you.
“You don’t have to abandon that because you work in a certain space. There are actors who have never ever gone nude and have been so successful in their careers up until old age and there are actors who have gone nude and still have been successful and so it’s a personal choice,” she explained.
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“If you feel like okay, I can bear it all for my craft, go ahead and do it. But if you feel like you know what I’m a little too shy, maybe I have body discomfort, maybe I’m not confident about my body, maybe I don’t like how it looks and I don’t want to show it to the world that’s okay. So, I don’t think there’s a hook to it, just act how you want and if you can’t handle it, allow somebody else to do it, so don’t bring half bread,” Nancy said.
When asked if she would accept such a role if it were to be a movie like Game of Thrones, she replied: “Maybe with the right atmosphere, the right directive, the right project, maybe for a right course. If it is really important in telling the story and moving the story forward, I would not mind.”
Nancy has delivered stellar performances in blockbuster films such as Everybody Loves Jenifa (2024), Queen Lateefah (2024), Omo Ghetto: The Saga (2021), and globally streamed hits like Shanty Town (2023) and Blood Sisters (2022).
