Mary-Louise Parker is bitter over baring it all.
The 44-year-old actress, who plays Nancy Botwin, a marijuana-selling mom on the Showtime series "Weeds," is reportedly upset over a recent nude bathtub scene. Although the actress says she's always been fine doing steamy sex scenes, she felt her nudity in the powder room took things too far.
"I didn't think I needed to be naked," Mary-Louise says More magazine's June issue. "I fought with the director about it, and now I am bitter. I knew it was going to be on the Internet: 'Mary-Louise shows off her big nipples.' I wish I hadn't done that. I was goaded into it."
But the co-executive producer of the series, Roberto Benabib, defended the nudity, saying, "We felt, at that point in her life, (Nancy's) defenses had been so thoroughly stripped away. There was a nonchalance to the nudity that informed the scene."
Roberto added, "I thought it was wonderful, one of the five best scenes Mary-Louise has ever done (on 'Weeds')."
Despite the disagreement, Mary-Louise insists she enjoys playing the character. "I like it the more extreme it is," she says. "But I don't like it when it's crass and crude for humor's sake, and I don't like when it's sentimental, when she's a sweet mother. To me, she's not that."
Mary-Louise also said that while she felt the pressure from Hollywood to stay youthful, she wouldn't be trading in her body anytime soon. "I'm 44, and I look OK for 44," the actress says. "I'm not trying to look 34."
