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In this scene from Nick Roeg’s Walkabout (1971), the children abandoned by their suicidal family in the Australian desert discover an oasis. I don't own the rights to this clip and its use is...
Jenny Agutter has expressed her one “regret” about doing a nude scene when she was 16. The actor, 69, had just turned that age when she started filming the 1971 film Walkabout, which is set...
Walkabout is also an Australian film made by an English director, the one and only Nicholas Roeg. Made just a year after being in the saccharine Railway Children, Jenny Agutter stars as a schoolgirl lost in the outback with her young brother, after their father has killed himself.
There was the skinny-dipping scene in Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout (1971), filmed when she was just 16; it turned her into a pin-up, as the teenage girl lost in the Australian outback.
Released in 1971, Walkabout shows the influence of 1960s counterculture. Roeg employs motifs typical of “back-to-Eden” stories: the “skinny-dipping” sequence, as in other period films such as Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), is a symbolic shedding of the clothes of the over-civilized world.
Agutter then moved into adult roles, beginning with Walkabout (1971), in which she played a teenage schoolgirl who is lost with her younger brother in the Australian outback. She auditioned for the role in 1967, but funding problems delayed filming until 1969.
Skinny Dipping: Jenny Agutter's character has quite a long scene in which she goes swimming nude. The last shot of the film is the girl's memory (or fantasy?) of her, her brother, and the Aborigine boy all skinny dipping together.
Walkabout is a 1971 adventure survival film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the 1959 novel by James Vance Marshall.
Because of the delay, she was 16 when the cameras started rolling, including a famous – for some infamous – section where she strips off and goes skinny-dipping in a lake in the middle of...
Walkabout: Directed by Nicolas Roeg. With Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon. Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.