“I take my clothes off for a minute and a half and everyone suddenly goes, ‘Oh great, she’s an actress who will take her clothes off. We can’t get Kate Winslet. Let’s see if Lara Pulver will do a swinger movie.’”
Pulver laughs, plainly more tickled than irked. Leading ladies often look reassuringly ordinary out of professional make-up and flattering camera angles. Not Lara Pulver. Even early on a damp Monday morning, raindrops frizzing her inky locks, she looks as stunning as she does on screen, if more demurely dressed than in the role that’s precipitated the flood of swinger movie scripts: as whip-wielding dominatrix Irene Adler in Sherlock.
As well as job offers, Pulver’s performance as the Baker Street sleuth’s sultry adversary earned her a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for best actress (co-star Benedict Cumberbatch and Sherlock itself both won awards) and a Twitter appreciation society – “The Whip Hand” – that’s as devoted as Benedict’s “Cumberbitches”. It’s also kept her episode at the top of the iPlayer charts, making it the most watched programme this year.
That last honour probably has something to do with that 90 seconds where Pulver wears only a pair of Louboutin heels, diamond earrings and lipstick, which provoked more than 100 complaints when it was broadcast before the watershed.
When she subsequently revealed in Radio Times that she dispensed with the stick-on bra and diminutive drawers (“Imagine a sanitary towel made of tan lycra”) provided to protect her modesty, and found filming naked “empowering”, her confession caused even more of a stir.
“I feel like I’ve been slightly misquoted,” she says now, keen to clarify.
“I was in my rawest, most vulnerable physical form and to be standing there like that and still doing my job and doing it well. That’s what was empowering, realising: ‘I’m not crumbling; I’m not freaking out; I’m not shaking; I’m not not able to say my lines.’ I had no idea what was actually going to happen so it was empowering and reassuring to know that Lara in her most vulnerable physical state was OK.”
READ MORE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-07-02/sherlocks-lara-pulver-i-found-filming-naked-empowering
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