Rapace had no idea she had to be nude

Noomi Rapace told IndieWire she had no idea she had to be nude for her role until director Goran Stolevski asked her about her comfort level with it the night before production began. It caught her totally off guard.

Then he pointed out the part of the script that described her character as appearing “as she was on the day she was born” and said that meant she would be naked. Rapace thought to herself, “Oh my god, what have I gotten myself into?” But she couldn’t back out and had to do it.

Her fears quickly subsided the next day when she began filming. The location scenery, combined with the fact that Stolevski “did not feel like a first-time director,” allowed her to immerse herself in the scene and the nudity, which, to her, made sense for her character.