Cameron Diaz opens up to Esquire about getting naked on screen for first time

SHE has made 32 movies over 20 years, but Cameron Diaz has stripped bare for the first time in upcoming movie Sex Tape.

THERE’S a first time for everything, and for Cameron Diaz her first nude scene is in upcoming movie Sex Tape, opposite Jason Segel.

The 41-year-old actress sizzles on the cover of Esquire’s August 2014 issue in a high-cut swimsuit, and opened up to the magazine about getting naked on camera.

“It’s a first for me. But Jason [Segel] gets naked, too. It’s just a part of the role. So I did it. I mean you see everything,” she told the mag.

Cameron Diaz sizzles on the August cover of Esquire magazine.

For a movie called Sex Tape, we’d be surprised if there wasn’t nudity, but her co-star is an old pro when it comes to baring it all on camera. Segel famously did a full-frontal scene for 2007’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a scene which made his mother cry and send out the following email: “I would like to inform you all that Jason has chosen to do full-frontal nudity, however, it is not gratuitous and is essential to the plot.”

But getting naked wasn’t all Diaz had to do for Sex Tape — there’s also a childbirth scene that sounds like it was a pretty intense experience to film.

“I found myself in a room in the middle of nowhere Massachusetts at 11:00 at night doing a childbirth scene, and everybody’s screaming at one another — Jason, the cameramen, the director,” she told Esquire.

“And me acting like I’m trying to push a basketball out of my vajoon. Crazy sh*t, right? And the thing is, I always take a moment to say, ‘We’re lucky. This is a great job. A fun job’.”

Sex Tape hits Australian cinemas on July 31, 2014.

Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel star in Sex Tape.

This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post.