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October 21, 2014

Court Okays Lawsuit Against Actress Who Refused Nude Scenes

LOS ANGELES—Hollywood actresses aren't necessarily the brightest bulbs on the tree, but Anne Greene may be the one that blew all the fuses—and now an L.A. Superior Court judge has rejected Greene's motion to strike the breach-of-contract lawsuit filed against her by the production company she says misled her about the role she was to play in the "Skinemax" series Femme Fatales. As AVN reported here, in 2012, Greene auditioned for a principal role in the second season of the continuing series, and although the producers sent her the series' "sizzle reel" and an episode, as well as casting breakdowns of her intended roles which made it clear that they required "partial nudity," she balked when it came time to doff her duds. According to Greene's complaint against series producers True Crime, Cinemax, HBO (which owns Cinemax) and Time Warner (which owns HBO), she would never have agreed to the role if she'd known it involved "soft-core porn," even though she had signed, along with her contract, a personal release and a nudity rider—and that she only performed in her episode, "Jailbreak," because of the producers' threatened $100,000-plus breach of contract suit. Greene claimed, among other things, that all this on-set strife caused a "hostile work environment," and that True Crime had violated several union rules, including failing to close the set to outsiders. The producers, who did in fact countersue, tell a different story. According to their complaint, although Greene had received her script beforehand, once on the set, she refused to do a simulated oral sex scene, forcing a last-minute script rewrite. But on day 2 of the shoot, she objected to being topless in a simulated sex scene, which the producers hoped to cure by applying pasties to her nipples—but that violated one of HBO's rules (who knew?) and forced her to be replaced with a body double, causing additional expense of both time and money, particularly during the editing stage. In any case, the producers' counterclaim "set off an angry motion to strike, essentially an effort to kill the counterclaims by dressing them up as a retaliatory action to impinge her First Amendment right to petition a hostile work environment," reported legal analyst Eriq Gardner in the Hollywood Reporter. She also used the motion to add a new claim that one of the actors with whom she was to work "wore a sock on his penis" and "allegedly began to bleed from his mouth onto Greene's face and body during the filming." But L.A. Superior Court Judge Barbara Scheper won't have any of it. Ruling that True Crimes' counterclaims are not "retaliatory," and that the producers have "provided ample evidence that [they] will prevail," with the judge "specifically mentioning the videos and scripts the actress got when auditioning," Gardner concludes, "This all sets up one potentially crazy trial that's currently scheduled to begin on Feb. 17, 2015."

 
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