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Aubrey Plaza<\/a> said she was told to actually masturbate on camera while filming The To Do List<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a newly resurfaced interview<\/a> from 2013, the White Lotus <\/em>star told Tonight Show <\/em>host Conan O’Brien<\/a> about filming a self-pleasure scene for director Maggie Carey<\/a>‘s R-rated comedy, in which she plays a high schooler who wants to become more sexually experienced before heading off to college.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIn my head, I envisioned a nice scene where you just see my hand slowly go out of frame. That’s what I thought I was going into. But then when I showed up, the camera was mounted on the ceiling,” Plaza said. \u201cI was in my underwear and a Clinton t-shirt.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The actress then snuck in a quick joke about there being “a bunch of old men smoking” in the room, who she later clarified were crew members. However, things took a more serious turn when she began to describe her confusion, saying that she “thought I was doing one thing and then when I showed up, it was a whole different thing.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “It was a full body shot. And I asked the director, \u2018What should I do?,'” she recalled before Carey instructed her to “‘masturbate \u2014 like it says in the script.'”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Plaza continued, \u201cAnd then I did that.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Additionally, the Parks and Recreation <\/em>star also talked about the experience in an interview with The Oregonian<\/em><\/a>, in which she called it the “most nerve-wracking” part of the movie. Reiterating that she believed that Carey was planning on a cutaway scene, she remembered thinking they would “‘probably shoot this in a way where I don\u2019t really have to really do it.\u2019”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “But then when we did it and I was like, \u2018Oh no, we\u2019re going to shoot it where I do it,’\u201d she said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Granted, Carey previously claimed that Plaza came up with the idea to hump a pillow during the scene in an interview with Vulture<\/em><\/a> from 2013. Describing it as “a lot different” than Natalie Portman<\/a>‘s masturbation scene in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan<\/a>, <\/em>the filmmaker also went on to praise Plaza’s willingness to be “game for anything,” adding that “she\u2019s not afraid to be vulnerable or put herself in awkward positions.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
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