Patricia Arquette – Naked!

When your first film script is the universally-acclaimed Being John Malkovich, it's always going to be a hard act to follow, but writer Charlie Kaufman seems to have gone totally off the deep end with his next project, Human Nature. How Kaufman managed to persuade a studio to finance a story about a love triangle between a scientist, a woman covered in body hair (Patricia Arquette) and an ape man (Rhys Ifans) is anyone's guess - but then the respective merits of Being John Malkovich probably weren't immediately obvious either. The BBC's Film 2001 managed to get a sneak peek at the movie this week, and interviewed Ifans and the film's director Michel Gondry. Ifans, who spends much of the movie semi-naked, said of the film; 'That's the beauty of a Charlie Kaufman script. On one hand he has these huge themes and questions that he asks of us and society, but he also has this very subversive humanist humour running through it.' Ifan's most memorable moment of the production came from one nude scene in particular. 'The best thing was walking down Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles with no clothes on. You very rarely get a chance to do that sober and not get arrested. I thought I've arrived in Hollywood and I haven't got a stitch on.' By contrast, the nude scenes were more difficult for Patricia Arquette. 'I'm very shy in nature,' Arquette says. 'Luckily I had Rhys who was so great. "It's OK baby,' he'd say. "I'll cover your bits."'