2010s Nude Scenes in Film and Television

Ella Purnell Naked – Sweetbitter – 4K Stream

We’ve only been blessed with Ella Purnell naked once, and it was back in the Starz production Sweetbitter. Starz is, of course, known for bringing us such wellsprings of nudity as Spartacus, Outlander, and Da Vinci’s Demons. Now, before everyone gets too excited, Sweetbitter is from after this fabled era, and there are significantly fewer nude scenes in it than in any of the other shows I mentioned.

What Sweetbitter does give us, however, is something that we almost certainly won’t get to see in Fallout when it hits Amazon Prime Video in a few days. Yes, Ella Purnell will be playing the lead in the ‘Zon’s adaptation of Fallout, named Lucy MacLean. That’s the character, not the show. Now, just to be clear, it has been whispered through the grapevine that Fallout has been rated for nudity, but we got that kind of talk with The Rings of Power – another Amazon production, by the way – and we know exactly how that turned out.

But whether we will get to enjoy Ella Purnell nude in Fallout isn’t a matter of life and death since we’ve already got nudity from her in Sweetbitter. Yeah, fine, it’s not the same level of gratuitous nudity as we got in Spartacus (God, I miss that show every day), but for the cynics among us who aren’t holding their breaths for tons of tits and ass in Fallout, it is a nice fallback. And really, we got just about every angle of her minus the full frontal. Even the ass men got a taste.

One thing I will seethe about is that most of Ella Purnell’s sex scenes in Sweetbitter involved her wearing a bra. Like, seriously? Who does that? We do get a lot of great reaction shots from her. These include one scene where she’s getting her pussy eaten out while balancing plates and another wherein she’s masturbating in bed so that coomers can self-insert or something. There’s also a really goofy sex scene in which she fakes an orgasm. All of these would obviously be infinitely better if she wasn’t wearing that damned bra, but I guess we take what we’re given.

The scene in Sweetbitter in which we see Ella Purnell topless takes place in some sort of dingy spa or sauna or steamy sex dungeon which her character, Tess, visits with her colleague, Simone, played by the ethereal Caitlin FitzGerald. Tess pulls her towel off so that her breasts can enjoy the hot air. Sadly, Caitlin’s Simone does not follow suit for her own boobs, but we’ve still got Masters of Sex to fap to her in, so it’s all good. I really do hope I’ll get to eat my cynicism in a day or two and that Fallout will be bursting at the seams with nudity from Lucy MacLean, but failing that, I’m comfortable in the knowledge that I’ll always have this gallery of Ella Purnell nude.

Karen Hassan Naked – Vikings – Blu ray

Seeing Karen Hassan naked in the infamous whipping scene must be the best thing to ever come out of the History Channel. Yes, I do mean that History Channel. Those who remember their series Vikings will probably remember that it had an exceptional amount of rather graphic nudity, all the way up to full frontal. Canadian television really is in a league of its own. We never got a Karen Hassan nude scene that included full frontal nudity, and in fact, we didn’t get too many of them from her as a whole, but what we did get made a lot of guys really, really happy.

For those who have been keeping up with the franchise, and I exclude myself from that, a sequel series – Vikings: Valhalla – got picked up by Netflix and aired its first season last year. I haven’t watched it, but from what I understand, even though it does have nude scenes, there are far fewer of them and they are less graphic and gratuitous compared to the ones in the original Vikings. There’s something mildly depressing about the fact that film and television nudity has become so objectionable in the 2020s that a History Channel production from less than a decade ago seems like a Jesus Franco film by comparison. Oh well, trends are cyclical, so here’s to hoping we go back to how things used to be at some point so that this era of 4K Ultra HD isn’t wasted exclusively on close-ups of rubber penises.

The first episode of Vikings in which we got to see Karen Hassan nude was the finale of Season 3, titled The Dead. This was the Belfast beauty’s third appearance on the show, having been introduced as the character Therese, the sister-lover (Lannister vibes, anyone?) of Roland. She then goes on to enter a false relationship with her brother’s rival, which she facilitates by engaging in his BDSM fetish and getting whipped with a cat o’ nine tails in his sex dungeon.

As said earlier, we don’t actually get to see the full frontal, but there is a great shot of Karen Hassan’s ass and sideboob, so it is implied (about as heavily as is visually possible) that she is indeed completely naked during Count Odo’s floggings of her. The bad news kicks in with the fact that we are only treated to two of these, and in the second one, she is almost fully dressed. I’m talking about the one that comes in during the sixth episode of the fourth season. Therese even asks him if he wants her to get undressed, but he declines, instead opting to simply pull the back of her dress up, exposing her ass for a bit of butt punishment.

Outside of the dungeon antics, we do get to see Karen Hassan topless once more, and it’s during a sex scene with her brother in the third episode of the fourth season. Unfortunately, the lighting in this scene is even more coy than in her nude scenes that are literally set in a windowless basement, so there’s no more than a few blurry flashes of nipple to fap to. All that said, if you’ve enjoyed the Northern Irish actress’ lewd scene in Hollyoaks – the one with Lynsey Nolan’s wet shirt – this is a huge step up. Considering Vikings contained the actress’ nude debut and her only nude scenes, given how much time has passed, it seems like we may not ever get to see Karen Hassan nude again, but at least we can enjoy all three of her newly color corrected scenes from that series below.

Perdita Weeks Naked – Flight of the Storks – Blu ray

In celebration of the recent resurrection of Magnum P.I., I’m happy to present a project I started a while back: the scenes featuring Perdita Weeks naked in Flight of the Storks. What’s the connection? None whatsoever. But our chances of seeing the Welsh actress nude in Magnum P.I. are about zero-to-none, so naturally, we must look elsewhere. As it happens, there is only one place to look. Yes, it’s one of those. The actress seems to drag the dreaded no-nudity policy wherever she goes and whatever she acts in, but there is one and only one feature in which we get to enjoy a Perdita Weeks nude scene, and it’s this one.

As for Magnum P.I., for those that haven’t heard some recent news, the show was cancelled by CBS after four very successful seasons. And for those who haven’t heard some slightly more recent news, it was picked up by NBC after its cancellation for a further two seasons. And for those who haven’t heard the most recent news, Season 5 of Magnum P.I. aired on NBC on Sunday, February 19. How much Perdita Weeks bikini footage it will give use to gawk at as her character Juliet Higgins galivants around the scenic locations of Hawaii, as MI6 operatives are known to do, we may never know.

What we do know, however, is that we can enjoy Perdita Weeks nude in Flight of the Storks, a film that seems to have slipped under quite a lot of folks’ radars. In that movie, she plays an Israeli… something. You know, I don’t actually remember what her role was. It seems like she appears for a bit, spends a few days having sex with the main character, and then disappears again. It’s like some benevolent deity knew that she’d never do a nude scene and decided to just bless us with one because we’ve all suffered too much in this cruel world already.

I mean, you would have thought we’d at least have gotten to see Perdita Weeks topless in The Tudors, right? Who the hell didn’t get naked in that. We got some Tamzin Merchant nude scenes there, which we recently discussed when we covered her two nude scenes in the first season of Carnival Row. We got to see Natalie Dormer nude in The Tudors as well, and for the very first time too. And yet nothing from our Cardiff girl.

I imagine the more-than-four-minute-long Perdita Weeks sex scene came as a surprise to people when Flight of the Storks came out back in 2013, but to be fair, it’s an even bigger surprise to us now in retrospect, given how it was preceded by a long era of no nudity and succeeded by the same. Weird. Weird, but not bad. Certainly better than nothing, which is likely what we’ll get from here on out, although I’m happy to be proven wrong in the years to come. Who knows, maybe Magnum P.I. will have a full episode of Juliet Higgins and Thomas Magnum fucking in some demented Hawaiian beach orgy. NBC have a reputation for graphic and gratuitous nudity, right? Until that fateful day happens, we can stick to enjoying Perdita Weeks nude in Flight of the Storks.

Tamzin Merchant Naked – Carnival Row – 4K Stream

The two scenes featuring Tamzin Merchant naked bring us to the end of our journey of covering all of the nudity in the first season of Carnival Row and getting us ready for the second and final season. This second season will begin to air on February 17, 2023, so only a week and a half from time of me writing this. The release schedule is going to be a bit different. As I’ve said in each of the other posts for the series, Season 1 released all in one go, which meant that the show staggering Cara Delevingne’s two nude scenes to the third and fourth episodes did nothing to dampen any spotlight monopolization that may – and definitely did – occur.

Mind you, the Tamzin Merchant nude scenes – which appear in the penultimate and final episodes of the first season – fared a bit better. They don’t get nearly as much mention as Cara’s, but they certainly get a lot more press than Orlandlo Bloom ploughing his landlady played by Maeve Dermody or the fantastical fae brothel scene featuring Karla Crome. All that said, Season 2 is unlikely to suffer from the same problem because it has now been confirmed that the new episodes of Carnival Row will release two at a time over a five week period between February 17 and March 17. Well, 29 days, technically, but you know what I mean.

The question on everyone’s lips is obviously whether we will see Tamzin Merchant nude again in the new season, and since this will be the end of the show, for the last time as Imogen Spurnrose. I will obviously be monitoring the situation and reporting on it as it goes in the same way that I did for House of the Dragon and (less fruitfully) for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Tamzin is certainly no stranger to nudity, but at the same time, she doesn’t exactly have that Eva Green or post-Twilight Kristen Stewart energy of being naked in absolutely everything she’s in.

We first saw Tamzin Merchant topless in The Tudors, which I suppose wasn’t unusual for that show. My most evergreen celebrity crush Natalie Dormer notably also had her nude debut in that show. The only other time we’ve gotten to enjoy Tamzin Merchant naked was in the French film The Dancer / La Danseuse. We could have seen her naked a whole lot more over the past decade and a bit since Tamzin Merchant was the original actress to play Daenerys Targaryen. Seriously, they filmed a whole pilot and everything, including the infamous wedding scenes with Khal Drogo. The original pilot was almost completely scrapped for being crap, and part of the rework involved significant recasting, one expression of which was replacing Tamzin with Emilia Clarke. I can’t tell you how often I hope to wake up and find out that the original Game of Thrones pilot has leaked.

I also feel like we could have gotten a Tamzin Merchant sex scene or 20 in her debut-ish role as Margo Durrell in BBC’s 2005 adaptation of My Family and Other Animals, given the character’s proclivities. In spite of its image, the network is no stranger to that kind of thing, as we have seen time and time again, and yet, no luck. Nor was there when ITV adapted the same books as The Durrells with Daisy Waterstone as Margo Durrell. The good news there is that Daisy had a certain very early role that will now scratch that itch for us forever. Bless independent short films.

For all the speculation we’ve been through, I do believe there actually is a good chance that we’ll be blessed with Tamzin Merchant’s tits again in Season 2 of Carnival Row. Why do I say this? Well, information has been scant until now, but our English rose did say in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that Imogen Spurnrose stops wearing a corset partway through the second season. Make of that what you will, but in the meantime, enjoy all of the Tamzin Merchant nude scenes from Carnival Row Season 1 below.

Maeve Dermody Naked – Carnival Row – 4K Stream

The scene in which we saw Maeve Dermody naked in Carnival Row is a bit of a stealth nude scene. We discussed the irony of this briefly in the previous post for the series, the one for Karla Crome, but to reiterate now that we’re on the scene itself, the part where we see Maeve Dermody nude in Carnival Row is literally the very first nude scene in the entire series. A blessed position to hold, but that didn’t stop it from getting overshadowed by the pair of nude scenes we got from Cara Delevingne later in the season.

That said, connoisseurs of celebrity nudity aren’t known for missing a trick, so in anticipation of Season 2 of Carnival Row, which is due to release on February 17, 2023 – only about a fortnight from now, as I write – I’m sweeping up with the nude scenes that I didn’t address when I covered Cara as Vignette Stonemoss back in November. We did Karla’s nude scene a few days ago, and we’ve got the Tamzin Merchant nude scenes to close the series off. Then when the second and final season rolls out, we can start afresh and hopefully with continuing nude scenes from the cast.

As for the first season, we get treated to the Maeve Dermody nude scene about half an hour into the pilot episode. The Australian actress plays Portia Fyfe, the landlady to Orlando Bloom’s Minecraft Ryprostate. As in every landlady-tenant relationship, they are also having sex on the side. Maybe this is why Philo’s rent was attainable, though how he still couldn’t afford better digs on a military officer’s pension and a police inspector’s salary, I’m not entirely sure. Maybe he was paying Maeve for the pleasure. Who knows? I would. The good news in all of that is we get to enjoy seeing Maeve Dermody nude in a great, albeit perhaps too clothed, sex scene, the gallery of which is below.