In an interview with TV3’s The Afternoon Show on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, Nollywood actress and model Nancy Isime discussed her opinions about actors and actresses portraying parts in naked scenes.
Nancy stated that it is up to the performers to decide whether or not to cast them in naked scenes. She urged creatives to take these things into account while selecting parts to play in films, explaining that they do not have to compromise their principles and ideals because of the situation they find themselves in.
According to Nancy Isime, some performers have achieved professional success without doing nude sequences, while others have achieved success despite performing nude scenes.
She said:
“The beautiful thing about being a creative is your unique experience, and everything has to be in it. Your nature, your moral background, your likes, your dos and don’ts— as a human being, you have to come with that, so when you enter into a career, whether as a photographer, videographer, cameraman, or whatever work, you have to take that with you.”
“You don’t have to abandon that because you work in a certain space. Some actors have never ever gone nude and have been so successful in their careers up until old age, and some actors have gone nude and still have been successful, and so it’s a personal choice.”
“If you feel like okay, I can bear it all for my craft, go ahead and do it. But if you feel like you know that I’m a little too shy, maybe I have body discomfort, maybe I’m not confident about my body, maybe I don’t like how it looks, and I don’t want to show it to the world, that’s okay. So, I don’t think there’s a hook to it, just act how you want and if you can’t handle it, allow somebody else to do it, so don’t bring half bread”.
