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![The machine-battling Moon Bloodgood explains why she fought for the right to go nude in Terminator Salvation. By <a href="http://sharpformen.com/author/cliff-ford/">Cliff Ford</a><div id='nr_fo_top_of_post'></div><p><b>While most Hollywood actresses dread stripping their clothes for the cameras, when the striking Moon Bloodgood discovered that the topless scene she had shot for <i>Terminator Salvation</i> was destined for the cutting room floor, the film’s director, McG, said that the 38-year-old, multi-ethnic (Korean, Irish and Dutch) veteran of several hit crime TV series (<i>Burn Notice, Monk, C.S.I., Journeyman</i>) vigorously campaigned for the reinstatement of the sequence.</b> “Wait, let me clarify, I wasn’t exactly fighting for it,” the SoCal-native says with a smile. “I just don’t like to feel that as a woman I should be apologetic about my sexuality or that I made a choice because I was forced into it. I thought the scene was appropriate. I thought it was beautiful. I have a very European feel about nudity. I just don’t, as a woman, feel that I ever have to confine myself and be a certain way when sexuality is a part of me. So I didn’t fight for it, but I didn’t fight against it. I just said, ‘If it’s right for the scene, it’s fine with me.’</p>
<p>“It’s a moment where I’m cleaning off a wound,” she continues, “and I feel Sam [costar Sam Worthington], the presence of him staring at me, and I just kind of turn back. They were scenes where I did it with hands over my boobs, but it’s literally a quick silhouette. It’s just not gross or in your face. It’s just a moment when you’re feeling naked, like, ‘This is my sexuality. Here I am. I’m a strong woman and can you handle it?’ I mean, I showed my boob to Robert De Niro [in <i>What Just Happened?</i>]. I mean, it’s a boob. Why do we make such a big deal about it? After all of that, I think they cut the scene out.”</p>
<p>Indeed. While there is plenty of action, jaw-dropping CGI-effects and Christian Bale fighting that old, familiar TA-100 robot in the latest<i> Terminator</i> installment, the scene was ultimately left out of the theatrical release. However, McG promises it will probably end up on the DVD and/or Blu-ray version of the film later this year. “I hope it does,” Bloodgood insists.</p>
<p>Starring alongside the temperamental Bale (whose now notorious <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrvMTv_r8sA" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.youtube.com']);">on-set tirade</a> against a crew member went viral not long ago), Bloodgood plays Blair Williams, one of the few surviving human resistance fighters. Appropriately, she confesses to be a hardcore sci-fi fan, with an intense love for anything futuristic.</p>
<p>“I love anything about the future, about artificial intelligence,” she says. “You watch a movie like Blade Runner or something and you go, ‘Is that it? Is that our future? Is it all going to be Japanese signs and we’re all floating? Where are we all going to be?’ Those kinds of movies I’ve always been compelled by.”</p>
<p>However, Bloodgood describes the latest chapter of the John Connor story as a genre-crossing epic.</p>
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