Diane Kruger says she was 'guarded' about doing nude scenes in her new show, 'Swimming with Sharks'

• Diane Kruger opened up about filming nude scenes for the new drama "Swimming with Sharks."
• "I was pretty guarded with what I wanted to be shown," Kruger told Insider at the SXSW film festival.

Diane Kruger said she was "pretty guarded" about her nudity on the new Roku drama "Swimming with Sharks," even though she feels "less inhibited" with onscreen sex scenes.

"The motivation behind sex scenes has to be a good one. I don't agree with just getting naked on screen, or doing stuff like that," Kruger told Insider during an interview at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas last month.

"So I was pretty guarded with what I wanted to be shown," the "National Treasure" actress continued. "There's always that danger of [thinking] like, 'She's a modern woman.'"

But Kruger emphasized that real-life women "do have sex."

"It's available, especially in Hollywood, wherever you want," she told Insider. "So the realness of that had to be there. And I wanted to control that. I wanted to control how it was seen."

"Swimming with Sharks" stars Kruger as ruthless film studio executive Joyce Holt, and Kiernan Shipka as Lou Simms, a mysterious new intern with a shadowy past who's determined to rise through the ranks. Donald Sutherland, Finn Jones, and Ross Butler also appear on the show.

Roku's new drama is loosely based on the 1994 film of the same name, which starred Kevin Spacey. As showrunner Kathleen Robertson recently told Variety, her updated version of "Swimming with Sharks" drew inspiration from anecdotes involving real-life Hollywood executives.

"Swimming with Sharks" premieres April 15 on Roku. You can watch the trailer below.