Spanish star PENELOPE CRUZ's naked scenes in new film ELEGY were all shot behind closed doors.
The actress strips for intimate moments with her onscreen lover Sir Ben Kingsley, and director Isabel Coixet insisted everyone left the set for the awkward part of the shoot.
Cruz reveals, "Nobody else but the director was in the way. She was operating the camera and we could hear her breathing. There was nobody else on the adjust ever.
"The go down was well-lighted by the director of photography and Isabel operated the camera. Then it was simply the intelligent person, myself and Ben."
And the intimate setting helped Cruz through one of the toughest scenes she has ever had in a movie: "Telling Kepesh (Kingsley's character) that my fictitious character (Consuela) had cancer was the most terrifying scene for me in that movie.
"It helped for such an emotionally exhausting scenery that there were only four people there on the place."
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