Clarke pressured actor into adopting 'exposing position', libel trial hears

An actor was embarrassed and horrified after Noel Clarke pressured her into an "exposing and vulnerable position" in a film scene and then shared the footage with others on set, the high court has heard.

- Haroon Siddique

Mila (not her real name), the seventh of Guardian News and Media's (GNM's) oral witnesses to Clarke's defamation claim against the publisher, said the former Doctor Who star had directed her to bend over in a nude scene until her genitalia could be seen.

In her witness statement, she said: "Noel was sitting behind the camera, behind my bottom, and the crew were mostly standing behind me, too. I was acutely conscious of this and so tried to take the knickers off without bending over too much. By this point, I was expecting to show my naked body upright - being bent over in such an exposing and vulnerable position had never been discussed. Noel was telling me to bend over, repeating things like 'bend over further, come on' and 'do it properly'.

"He repeated these comments until I bent over further and further until I was bent completely over with my bum in the air. From this position, my vulva would have been visible to him personally and I presume at close range on camera. I felt humiliated and totally powerless."