Bitter Parker: 'I Was Goaded Into Nude Weeds Scene'

Producer insists it showed 'vulnerability'
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted May 20, 2009 7:29 AM CDT
Bitter Parker: 'I Was Goaded Into Nude Weeds Scene'
Actress Mary Louise Parker, star of 'Weeds,' poses for a portrait earlier this year in New York.    (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)

Annoyed Weeds star Mary Louise Parker was "goaded" into a nude bathtub scene in the Showtime series about a pot-selling mom, she tells More. "I don't think I needed to be naked," she said. "I fought with the director about it, and now I am bitter. I wish I hadn't done that." A producer for Weeds, which begins its fifth season next month, insisted the scene was important to show the character's "vulnerability."

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