Clare O’Kane naked in WADDLE “a new short by me, Clare O’Kane” (2026)

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1. I’ve got a certain amount of respect for small-time artists who just embrace their weird and are all, “Here’s this strange little short film, which I wrote and directed, in which I get naked.” There’s something interesting that they’re clearly not being pressured or doing it for the money, it was just a personal For The Art Of It. Even if it’s weird and I don’t care for it, I’m glad they’re doing their thing. Good for them.

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   1. “Writer/actor/director getting themselves nude in a film” is one of my fave niche sub-sub-sub-genres. (Although maybe it’s not that niche anymore with Alison Brie having done it a couple of years ago as co-writer of that nudist movie…)

      Actors suggesting that an already-written scene be performed nude is great too (eg. Margot Robbie in Wolf of Wall Street).

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      1. I never heard this claim about Margot Robbie’s scene in Wolf of Wall Street, when did she say this?

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         1. I do vaguely recall reading something about that, when she comes back out and she’s completely naked, it was supposed to be in lingerie, but SUPPOSEDLY she was the one that pitched completely naked is more powerful, but that could well be lore concocted after the fact.

            I wonder, sometimes, if the PR teams put out stories like that to be all, “It was their idea! The director you love is not just a perv!” Because certainly, especially now, people like to create narratives about creators being pervs or deviants based on what they make. I saw plenty of comments about Sam Levine after stories about the second season of Euphoria, where scenes that were written as nude were changed to dressed on actress request, and how he was all, “Yeah, sure, however you’re comfortable”, and folks were being all “But he’s still an abusive perv who wants to see those actresses naked because he wrote it that way.”

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         2. Found a source

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         3. Turns out I was slightly mistaken about how it played out. In the book the film is adapted from the character is nude in that scene. Scorsese intended for Robbie to wear a robe or lingerie for the scene but she was like hell naw, that’d be out of character and insisted on shooting the scene nude. Very much the actress’ own agency which is really what I was driving at!

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      2. And usually in that niche, it’s “I’m naked here because it’s funny” rather than necessarily “sexy” . Or, many times, just weird. But I respect Just Weird.

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2. Britt Lower did one before she broke out on Severance

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