Los Angeles (THR) -- Nudity is big this summer on the big screen.
First, there is the whole Colin Farrell of it all with his new movie "A Home at the End of the World." Then there's the upcoming gratuitous Will Smith shower scene in "I, Robot." And Wednesday, Focus Features' "The Door in the Floor" delivers a whole lot of bare-it-all scenes for a few members of its cast, most importantly Kim Basinger, Mimi Rogers and Jeff Bridges.
But leave the full-frontal to Rogers, 48, who plays the other woman to Bridges' character in the film based on a John Irving novel. And while she admits it was "a little scary," once she worked out all the particulars with helmer Tod Williams, the clothes came right off.
"When I met with Tod initially, we talked a lot about it, because the way that it's written, it comes at a time when the relationship (between their characters) is entering a darker, uglier phase," Rogers says. "And I wanted to know how he saw it and how he intended to shoot it. It's not particularly objectionable to me, because it's not nudity in a sexual context per se because it's during an art scene and is more relevant to the storytelling as opposed to it being gratuitous, 'OK, now, here's the sex scene.' But it did require me to be there, full on starkers as they say."
Obviously, there's a lot more going on in the film than skin -- Rogers boasts that Bridges brings his best work, saying, "He deserves the Oscar for his performance in this movie, he's spectacular."
But back to the bare facts. "The thing that's cool about this movie is that Kim and I both have a lot of nudity -- two hot ladies over 40," Rogers says with a laugh. "We're going to set the industry on its ear, 'Don't forget about us, boys.' And Kim, she's like freakishly beautiful. It all helps reinforce the idea that age doesn't have that much to do with beauty. Over 40 is a state of mind."