It was the most suggestive photo shoot Singaporean actress Zoe Tay has ever done.For someone who has done countless photo shoots in her more than 20 years as a model and actress, that’s saying a lot.
But this revealing session wasn’t like the previous ones, where she posed in skimpy bikinis.
Or even the one she posed for a women’s magazine more than 10 years ago where she appeared to be nude, with her arms and legs covering herself. (She was actually wearing a tube top that was later digitally removed.)
In the shoot for the poster of her new movie, Love Cuts, Tay, 42, appeared to be nude with just a man’s arm covering her chest, even cupping her breast in his hand.
The Queen of Caldecott said: “I was hesitant because I’ve never taken photos like this (which gives the illusion that a man is touching her breast) before.
“The poster also gives an intimate feel but the movie doesn’t have any intimate scenes. I didn’t want the audience to have the wrong idea.”
Nevertheless, she went ahead with the proposed idea because “breast cancer is an illness very close to a woman’s heart and the poster sends that message across”.
She was quick to stress that the man in the poster, veteran Hong Kong actor Kenny Ho, didn’t touch her at all during the photo shoot.
She also wore a tube top that was later digitally removed.
In Love Cuts, she plays a mother whose life goes on a downward spiral when she discovers she has breast cancer.
The movie, to be released in Singapore on Sept 9, also stars Malaysian actress Christy Yow as an up-and-coming model with breast cancer.