This too. Plus, Skald’s “a lot of skin” clause is pretty ambiguous. Jessica Alba has shown “a lot of skin” in plenty of movies but she’s never gone topless.
Your talented, beautiful actress friend asks your advice about sexing up her image. What do you say?
That would be my advice- if you want to show skin and you think it’s a necessary part of telling the story in a movie, then go for it. Nothing wrong with it.
But… if you think that “sexing” your image up and showing more skin is going to make you more successful before you’re established, I’d think twice. That’s more likely to run you down the career path of acting in movies that show on Cinemax after 11 pm.
Basically, it comes down to whether they’re doing sexy scenes as part of an otherwise normal movie- plenty of highly regarded actresses have done nude and sex scenes in their movies. But if you’re hoping that you’ll become successful as a result of nude and sexy scenes, you’re probably going to get your hopes dashed.
Don’t foul up your own career to protect the profession. If you don’t want to do it because it would cheapen YOU, that’s fine, but to not do it because it would cheapen the profession of acting, that’s just silliness. You’re not even making a living and you’re refusing a role because it’s not arty enough?
Taking yourself a bit less seriously and striking while you’re likely to be in most demand, is excellent advice. Whether the best way to do this is Maxim and a Skin movie is up for debate.
My advice: “accidental” paparazzi shot of her coming out of a car, full snootch and anus, and double nip-slip. She’s limber, it can be done.
Yes, I hate Karen. I pretend to be her friend, but ever since she rejected my clumsy drunken advances, I seethe in frustrated hatred.
Its just too pat, too smarmy, and too vile for you to be talking about yourself… which probably paints a horrifyingly worse picture of you.
Happy Halloween…? Woosh…?
If not… You Sir, need to start a whole new thread… or a blog… and possibly some very intense daily therapy…
I don’t think Majim Byalik will ever have the opportunity to model lingerie.
Mark Evanier had the final word on this.
That’s fantastic. 
Good article and very on point.
I don’t buy the scenario. Not for a second.
Actresses who can act are scarcer than actresses willing to take their clothes off. Anyone who has spend any time in casting directors waiting rooms knows that beauty is not rare there.
The question to ask is, what auditions is she getting and what is her callback rate?
If she is not getting good auditions, then the advice to fire her agent and get one who will work for her is the best one. If she is getting auditions and not getting any callbacks (and 10% is an excellent callback rate) then maybe she isn’t quite as talented as you think. She might want to try an acting coach then, or at least get an honest evaluation.
Now, if it winds up that she doesn’t have that much talent and wants to be in the business anyway, then she might listen to the agent. Or she might not. But I doubt any agent who really believed in a client would give this advice.
So she has talked about this with exactly one person in the industry? If she doesn’t get out there and network, she’s not going to be very successful regardless of her ability or what jobs she accepts.
Put me in as another vote for this one, insofar as the merits of appearing in a particular scene or portrayal (and IMO it applies to nudity/sexual situations as well as to violence, language, or portrayal of stereotyped characters).
In that article the character at one point thinks “another one my agent did not tell me about” which brings up another element in the OP scenario, which Voyager’s comment takes up:
Indeed if the OP facts are as presented, it may be the fault of an agent using a shotgun strategy for auditions and not caring enough to focus on her strengths.
The scenario in the OP hypothetical is not that she may be called with a fair and square offer of a mature-audiences role or an ad gig for the Four Square Inches Of Fabric Boutique, but that she’s being advised to deliberately adopt a “sexed up image” as a *marketing *tactic to increase her visibility by doing racy shoots in lad mags and deliberately participating in Lezploitation scenes in B-vids. ( Seeing as how she is also a singer that agent may also want her to record a track with M.C. DatAss containing very explicit language and a music video featuring the latest dance trend, the “cameltwerk”. )
It’s one thing if that’s a direction Karen chooses to explore; it’s another thing if she’s being offered essentially a desperation move because the agent wants to be able to collect a commission, ANY commission.
The linked article talks about deciding whether to take a serious role in a serious play with some nudity. That she got the role without taking her clothes off says a lot about where the priorities of the director are. It is a lot different from the scenario in the OP.