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Hollywood blogger David Poland chats with Marisa, covering “The Wrestler”, ”Top Girls” and a variety of other subjects.

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Marisa Tomei doesn’t want moviegoers to get the wrong idea. Sure, just more than a year ago she memorably opened Sidney Lumet’s dark tale of brotherly loathing, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, in coitus with on-screen husband Philip Seymour Hoffman and spent much of the film in various states of undress. And, yes, in her new film, The Wrestler, directed by Darren Aronofsky, her first scene has her giving Mickey Rourke a lap dance. But really, Tomei insists, she didn’t plan on any of this.

“It just happened and I was like, well, I guess it’s now or never—I really want to work with these directors,” she says of her back-to-back in-the-buff performances. “After I did the Lumet film, I wasn’t intending to do anything like that again, and certainly not sequentially. I was worried about how it was going to be received. Like, ‘Who does she think she is? Why is she doing this? What is happening to this person?’”

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