Mary Louise Parker doesn’t think the world needs to see her nipples, said Margaret Lyons in Entertainment Weekly, but she’s wrong. Parker told More magazine that the director of the Showtime hit series Weeds goaded her into doing a nude scene last season, and now she regrets going through with it. But the scene wasn't gratuitous—baring all while she glumly soaked in a bathtub showed that her character—a pot-dealing suburban mom—had hit bottom.
Director Roberto Benabib won out, said celebrity blog The Hollywood Gossip, by insisting that the nude scene would show the vulnerability of Mary Louise Parker’s character, Nancy. Parker’s argument was that the video clip would end up all over the Internet, prompting creepy ogling of her nipples—and she was right, of course. It’s easy enough to understand why she says she’s “bitter.”
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