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Oscar Isaaccaused quite a stir on social media when he went full frontal in his HBO Max limited seriesScenes from a Marriage.
“I’m feeling objectified right now. So she gets all the deep questions? What the hell is going on here?” Isaacjokedwhen the topic came up.
The now infamous scene occurred in episode four, which aired last week. The show’s troubled spouses Jonathan (Isaac) and Mira (Chastain) had some breakup sex before signing their divorce papers. According to Chastain, fans have her to thank for the revealing scene.
“I said to Hagai [Levi] who wrote and directed the series, in the very beginning, I said, ‘I’m comfortable with all the nudity but any part of my body that you show, you’re going to have to show the same with Oscar,'” Chastain, 44, recounted. “So there’s a shower scene that I have in episode two, and you see my body. So now you see his body. So for me, I wanted it to be balanced.”
Last month, the actress and Isaac previously created another viral moment when theylit up social media with their red carpet chemistryat the Venice Film Festival, where they promoted the project, which is based on the 1973 Swedish miniseries of the same name.
Chastain, whotrained with Isaac at Juilliardand previously played his onscreen wife in 2014’sA Most Violent Year, recently opened up to PEOPLE aboutworking with her longtime friend again.
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“Oscar I’ve known for 20 years. We went to college together,” she said in September. “We have the same process. When I got the scripts, I knew immediately it was going to be like a play, because most of it’s just him and I talking for an hour, sometimes not calm.”
Chastain added, “Prep for me, I had to see Oscar in a different way, which was complicated because these characters are best friends, and they know so much about each other. They know everything about each other, so that was easy. But then I was like, ‘Okay, how am I going to switch [Oscar] in my mind? Because he’s literally not Jonathan at all.’ So I had to, I literally changed his name in my phone to Jonathan. I did. Because every time he texted me, I wanted it to say ‘Jonathan,’ so it could just remind me of the project, you know?”
All episodes ofScenes from a Marriageare streaming now on HBO Max.
source: people.com
