Lohan Refuses To Go Nude…Until The Film Crew Do So

Despite posing naked for Playboy magazine before, Lindsay Lohan suddenly got the jitters for a revealing sex scene for her new film.

In fact, the American actress was so hesitant to de-frock she requested the film crew to strip down first. Yes, she did.

Lohan was shooting a steamy sex scene last week for the new film, 'The Canyons', when she asked the crew to fulfill the unusual request.

Sources told TMZ the scene required Lindsay, playing the character 'Ruth', to go topless, but she was so uncomfortable with the idea of baring her bosom in front of the 10-man crew, she asked them to strip down to their underwear.

The crew then shot the whole scene half-naked.

Come on, Lohan. How are you so comfortable flashing your bits for a magazine thousands of men will be ogling at but suddenly get all demure in front of a camera crew?

'The Canyons' is written by American Psycho author, Bret Easton Ellis, takes a look at the seedier side of LA life.

Director Paul Schrader admitted Lohan was not his first choice of actress for the part, and we're wondering has this debacle convinced him further.

Schrader said, however, he had been impressed with her after a meeting at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. He said he had been fearful of hiring the actress based on her 'track history'.

The director also described how his first choice for the role of Tara was model Monica Gambee, not Lohan.

However, Gambee bailed on the film after hearing porn star James Deen was being considered as the male lead at the time in his first mainstream acting role.

Which he is now. We're betting Gambee's happy she's avoiding the drama on set...