DeeDee Luxe (below) and Calamity Chang (left) are used to taking their clothes off...sort of. They're both burlesque (that's old-timey for "stripper who doesn't strip") artistes in New York City, and so when they were called up to shoot a threesome scene with Michael Fassbender in Shame, they took it all in stride. Much more so than the reporter who interviewed them for The Huffington Post about it:

HP: Did you have to take off your clothes for the audition?

Calamity Chang: Yes. But [director Steve McQueen] was so polite, he was like, "Uh, I'm going to turn this way, just let me know when you're ready." You know, like, we're accustomed to being naked in public!

HP: On the day of shooting, was it nerve-wracking having a bunch of crew members watch you?

DeeDee Luxe: It was a closed set. It was Steve, the filmographer Sean Bobbitt...

CC: So there were really five of us in the room.

HP: I was going to say -- and then you're going to lunch with all of them!

DDL: Honestly, I don't think I would've had a problem with that.

CC: Me neither!

These lovely, lusty ladies go on to describe their pre-nude scene routines (shaving and moisturizing are key, if you're wondering), how their burlesque background gave them an edge, ("It was really funny because DeeDee and I were like, 'OK -- this is what we're going to do to, Michael'...we were choreographing it like an act," Calamity says), and what made them the most nervous (hint: it wasn't the nudity):

CC: If anything, I was more nervous about making out with DeeDee because I've never made out with a girl. This was the first threesome -- in every sense of the word, in real life or on film -- I've ever had! So with Michael I was like, "Oh, whatever it's just a guy."

HP: Did you guys just kiss and get it out of the way before you were on camera?

CC: No, we waited until we were on camera...She and I have the same energy. I think going into it we were comfortable with our bodies and we weren't too worried about how we'd be portrayed.

DDL: I think because we're performance artists that nudity to us isn't a big deal. But he's an artist and we're artists and it just felt really natural.

Curious? Don't be embarrassed- check out our Shame page right here at MrSkin.com!

Photography of Calamity Chang (top) by Mike Webb Photography, and of DeeDee Luxe (bottom) by Don Spiro

Special thanks to the fabulous Ms. Calamity Chang and Ms. Dee Dee Luxe