An actress who alleged she was pressured to do semi- nude scenes while working on an episode of the Cinemax series “Femme Fatales” in 2011 has dropped her lawsuit against a production company.
Lawyers for Anne Greene filed court papers on June 27 with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Barbara Scheper asking that her complaint against True Crime LLC be dismissed. The documents did not state whether a settlement was reached or if Greene is not pursuing the case for other reasons.
Greene sued in December 2012, alleged she was not told when she auditioned or when she was hired under an AFTRA contract that she would be required to be nude and simulate sex scenes.
On the first day of shooting in December 2011, the actress was “blindsided with rewrite after rewrite,” which required her character to simulate sex and appear nude except for “pasties on her nipples and a sticker on her private parts,” the suit says.
The plaintiff says she “made it clear prior to booking, as well as during the initial phases of production, that she was not willing or comfortable to engage in scenes requiring explicit nudity and/or scenes which required graphic sexual intercourse.”
When Greene complained, the producers told her that if she refused, they could sue for $100,000; so she agreed to do the scenes, according to her suit.
But court papers filed by the production company’s attorneys said Greene and her agent were notified in writing that her character, Kendra, in an episode entitled “Jailbreak,” required “chest and behind” nudity and a simulated sex scene.
“At no time did True Crime … attempt to convince, persuade or coerce Greene to perform any scenes against her will…,” according to a countersuit filed by True Crime against the actress. On the second day of production, when the simulated sex scene with the actor was scheduled, Greene expressed for the first time that she objected to “allowing herself to be filmed topless,” according to the countersuit.
The countersuit alleged True Crime was surprised by Greene’s objections to the scenes.
“Had Greene expressed such concerns prior to the start of production, True Crime either would have cast another actress or would have worked out an accommodation in order to avoid delaying the production schedule and/or hiring a body double,” according to the countersuit,
“Femme Fatales” began production in May 2011 and is billed as a series about “powerful, sexy and dangerous women.”
—City News Service
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