The British actress Rachel Weisz has revealed how she „begged” Alejandro Amenabar — the director her of her 2009 movie Agora — to let her film a masturbation scene for the film — but he refused.

Weisz plays real-life fourth-century Egyptian philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria in the Spanish historical drama.

„There’s a style of acting that can come with period films where everybody just freezes up,” Rachel told Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper.

„But they were drinking and f**king and doing maths or whatever else they were doing. They were just people.

”I actually told Alejandro they should shoot a scene where she was looking at the stars and masturbating.

„I suggested a PG version, where her hand just went out of frame, and you’re watching her come, looking at the stars.

”He wouldn’t go for it. I begged him. I wanted to know about that stuff. What’s up? What’s her sexuality? Where’s her deviancy?„

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