Showbiz: Totally upfront about her 'not so good' intentions

 

Sunday Mercury ; Birmingham, England

February 3, 2002

 

RAVEN-haired Jennifer Connelly, currently taking Hollywood by storm for her stunning performance as Russell Crowe's wife in A Beautiful Mind, is increasingly treating her fans to no-holds-barred sights of her beautiful body.

Jennifer, who last month won a Golden Globe Award, says it's a good way of getting rid of her 'good girl' inhibitions.

Her most shocking performance came last year, when she did more than flaunt full-frontal nudity. The 31-year-old single mother of one played a drug addict prostitute, Marion Silver, who does a naked lesbian show for a roomful of cheering yuppie businessmen.

The scene was in the art movie Requiem For A Dream, set in the nightmare world of drug addiction. Marion takes part in the sleazy sex romp to earn money to feed her habit.

Jennifer also bared parts of her body in the movies Waking The Dead, Inventing The Abbotts and The Hot Spot.

The actress, who has a four-year-old son, declared: 'I don't regret anything. Those were formative experiences. I used to be shy and timid, I was a good kid and I wanted to be one.

'But this can lead to a reserve that can be a little hampering. It has been a gradual unleashing.'

To give her role as Marion a gritty reality, Jennifer took to the street's with the film's 32-year-old director Darren Aronofsky to mix with drug addicts.

He said: 'The sex scene is taken from something I witnessed. A lot of people who haven't been to bachelor parties don't realise that this is happening behind closed doors every day in America.

'It was meant to show the destruction of the human spirit and the depths to which humanity will go to feed addiction. Her eyes tell you she is already dead inside. It is tragic.'