Janet Montgomery (Brief T&A) [S1E2E4], Joanna Vanderham [S1E1], Jenna Coleman [S1E1], Angel Coulby, Katherine Press, Nicola Munns, Martine Richards & Jacqueline Bisset in Dancing on the Edge [S1]

There’s also a certain flintiness to Vanderham, something which manifested itself when she refused to do a nude scene for Dancing on the Edge. Poliakoff’s five-part thriller about the mixed fortunes of a fictional black jazz band in Thirties London, which stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew Goode, sees Vanderham’s society girl Pamela Luscombe strike up a relationship with Goode’s Stanley Mitchell, a music journalist.
Vanderham balked when the first episode’s script called for Pamela to enjoy a naked clinch with Goode. “I had to put my foot down and say, ‘I refuse to be nude,’” says Vanderham. “It was difficult for me, because it’s Stephen Poliakoff and that’s how he’d written it and I love that character.”
“But those images [of nudity] don’t go away. It was maybe my third large job and I thought, ‘I’m not ready for that.’”
Ultimately, Vanderham managed to convince Poliakoff that baring all might be counterproductive to how the character plays out. – telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9820397/Joanna-Vanderham-interview-for-Dancing-on-the-Edge.html (4 February 2013)

Joanna Vanderham has confessed her refusal to appear nude in a Stephen Poliakoff drama was more to do with embarrassment than standing up for women’s rights.The 22-year-old Scottish drama played a socialite who has a relationship with a music journalist in Dancing On The Edge, the drama about a jazz band in London in the 1930s.
The script for the BBC2 drama, written and directed by Poliakoff and broadcast earlier this year, required the actress to be nude while her character had sex on a train.
Joanna, who also stars in The Paradise, a BBC1 drama set in the 1870s in England’s first department store, said: “It’s sort of been turned into a story of me standing up and being quite forthright when actually it came more out of embarrassment than anything else.
“It was more a case of ‘I really don’t want to do that’ than ‘women should not be asked to do this’.'”
The actress, who ended up wearing a black camisole in the scene in Dancing On The Edge, told the Radio Times: “That scene was written 20 minutes into the first episode, you barely knew my character.
“I would have had to spend the rest of the series trying to convince the viewers that I wasn’t just the naked one.” – independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/nude-veto-came-from-embarrassment-29661084.html (15 October 2013)

“It was a miscommunication really. It was what was scripted and when I read it I thought, ‘Oh we can talk about that later and it will be fine’ and then he assumed I would be naked, and I was there going, ‘I’m not sure if I’m OK with that’. At the end of the day he said he wanted the best performance from me and if I was going to be uncomfortable he wouldn’t get that. Now I’m so glad I didn’t do it; we shot it with me wearing a vintage negligee. I was looking at clips for my showreel and I was thinking what scenes would be good for it. I typed Dancing On The Edge into YouTube and the only scene that came up, from six hours of drama, was that scene. Which says it all. I think I made the right choice.” – On not wanting to take her clothes off for Dancing On The Edge (https://www.industriamovies.com/feature/joanna-vanderham/ October 5 2013)

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