Star Trek: Does a man really need to apologize for Alice Eve's underwear scene?

From The Telegraph

Although the Oxford-educated actress would have known what she was doing in that underwear scene, Katy Brand says she would've also been aware of the fate of actresses before her who had insisted on keeping their clothes on.

Who was it that said, ‘it’s better to beg forgiveness than ask permission’? Well, that little maxim for life must have been at the very forefront of Star Trek: Into The Darkness writer and producer Damon Lindelof’s mind this week when he issued a heartfelt apology for including a scene featuring Alice Eve in her underwear. Needless to say, Alice Eve looks very good in her underwear, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she has to conduct an entire scene in it.

What prompted this mea culpa? An increasing awareness of the gender imbalance in big budget films? It was revealed this week in Cannes that just 28pc of speaking roles go to women. A burning sense of injustice at the treatment of young actresses? A visitation by an alien space Queen (perhaps even a lesbian Queen), to inform him that her armies of outraged Extra-Terrestrial Fembots were coming to get him?

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Alice Eve on her new Star Trek adventure

From The Telegraph (UK)

It’s been a long road to Hollywood, but Alice Eve never really doubted she’d get there. For as the latest recruit to Star Trek tells John Preston, there’s only one way to boldly go. And that’s up.

The first time Alice Eve was beamed aboard the Starship Enterprise things didn’t go entirely to plan. Clad in her skin-tight uniform, her thick, blonde hair freshly coiffed, she ran on to the set of JJ Abrams’ £120 million production of Star Trek Into Darkness – and promptly fell on her bottom.

‘Literally, this was the first take of the first day’s shooting’, she says. ‘It was pretty bad for me, but everyone else seemed to find it very funny.’

You might assume that this would have rather knocked the stuffing out of her – except that Alice Eve isn’t like that. If she does self-doubt, she keeps it more deeply buried than anyone else I’ve ever met.

Instead, self-possession comes off her in waves. As we sit in a club in Soho, she even manages to eat a mouthful of very gloopy hummus in a way that is as controlled as it is delicate.

The daughter of the actors Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan, Eve knew pretty much from the moment she could walk that she wanted to be an actress.

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