"Her nakedness is also her emotional nakedness, kind of her raw state of being." "There's reason for it, you know? I wanted it to be challenging for myself, and I wanted women to believe me," she says. But the nudity that comes with the role didn't bother Juri it felt natural for her character to embrace that part of her humanity. "When I heard that, I thought, OK, that's a story to be told!"Īnd it certainly proves to be quite the coming-of-age narrative to tell, often confronting the audience with uncomfortable sexual and emotional scenarios. "I never thought Helen was this horrible thing that everyone said she was," the 29-year-old says, explaining just how much the press loathed the novel and claimed whoever played the role was a disgrace to human beings. Speaking to the talented actress Carla Juri, who plays the teenage lead, we discussed a lot of what made Helen an interesting character to dive into. It's a story about a young woman named Helen who has a rather strange perspective on how sexuality and hygiene should work, but it's far deeper than what all the shocking images and a few negative reviews might have you think.Īs abundant in sexuality as Wetlands is, it's a rare film that actually places a young woman's body in her own command, never succumbing to the male gaze and remaining refreshingly sex-positive.
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The Wetlands film poster proudly states it's "the most WTF, NSFW movie at this year's Sundance Film Festival." The mind jumps to curiosity or disgust almost immediately, but that's unsurprising coming from David Wnendt's film based on Charlotte Roche's sexually charged novel of the same name.
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