Julie Andrews and orgy are not words anyone expects to hear in the same sentence. But the clean-cut star of family films like The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins had a far more outrageous career than many realise these days. As well as topless scenes in S.O.B. and a striptease in 1970’s Darling Lili, she also watched an orgy being filmed. Dame Julie was far too polite to describe the participants but simply said there were “an awful lot of people who really are very at ease doing orgy films.”
The actress’s director husband Blake Edwards was shooting a scene for their adult comedy Ten with Dudley Moore.
Julie described the moment: “He said, ‘Julie, you’ve just gotta come on over here, it’s an unbelievable sight.’ So I went dashing over.
“What Blake had done was hire an awful lot of people who really are very at ease doing orgy films, I guess. I walked in and everyone was stark naked and lying around, very happily and casually, treating it totally normally.”
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Julie plays the film star wife of a Hollywood producer who has just made the biggest flop of his career. Losing his sanity he spends his fortune buying the rights to the movie and remaking it as a soft-core pornographic musical
In the climactic moment of the movie within the movie, Julie’s character Sally Miles pulls down the top of her dress and reveals all.
As always, she was not fazed at all and found the humour in the situation.
Talking about it on the Graham Norton show, she said: “I had to go topless, but it was very legitimate in the script.”
Norton suggested everyone must have told the Oscar-winning legend not to do it, but she said: ‘I’d done an awful lot by then and it took ten years to get the movie made, so I’d had ten years to think about it.”
Andrews admitted that there was one downside, though, to stripping on camera.
Andrews was on the sofa with Hollywood stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.
Tatum also has experience of stripping off on camera and pointed out the cold is worse for men’s private parts.
Andrews gestured to her chest and laughed, saying: “It was very cold in the studio, goosebumps don’t look particularly good on camera, do they?”
