, How to Die Alone, in which creator, co-showrunner, and star Natasha Rothwell strips down to her bra and underwear and plunges into the freezing waters of Lake Ontario.
Her character, Mel, was technically the one who decided to take the leap—but as far as Rothwell is concerned, she wasn’t acting at all.“That is Natasha on camera, not Mel,” the 43-year-old says with a laugh. “They didn’t want me to do it.
They wanted a stunt person to do it. They had medics on standby. They had heating pools. They had people in the water with me, because it was a cold plunge.
It was 32 degrees or something.”Freezing temperatures were the least of Rothwell’s concerns. “For me to strip down in my underwear on national television…if I were to tell myself even in my late 20s, early 30s, that I would be undressed, I’d be like, ‘You’re a liar.
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