Naomi Watts Nude Scenes

Naomi Watts built her career on a reputation for fearless, emotionally raw performances, from her breakthrough in Mulholland Drive to prestige turns in King Kong and The Impossible, and she hasn't shied away from nude work when a role called for it. On CelebMasta, her presence is limited to a single video, but it counts for plenty. That entry comes from her run on the series Gypsy, where she plays a therapist unraveling into an affair, and the archive captures a same sex encounter shared with Sophie Cookson alongside a separate underwear scene from the same show. The pairing gives fans two angles on Watts in this era of her career: the quiet intimacy of the lesbian sequence and the more voyeuristic glimpse of her stripped down to lingerie between takes of the drama. Gypsy itself leaned heavily on Watts's willingness to play morally ambiguous, sexually charged characters, and this clip stands as the clearest documentation of that side of her work available here. For a performer usually associated with awards-season restraint, the footage offers something rarer, a look at Watts embracing a script that asked her to bare far more than her usual range of controlled, dramatic intensity.

Naomi Watts shares scenes with Sophie Cookson on CelebMasta.