But the idea slowly morphed into an attempt to reinterpret female nudity. “A woman’s nudity is very rarely explored or represented as being for herself,” Stasey says. “Naked women on television are always the deviants, the seductresses or succubi – you never just see a woman at home on the couch without her pants on. I spend 90 per cent of my life like that. “Also,” she says, warming to her theme, “there’s this idea that every time a woman masturbates, she looks amazing, like she’s throwing her head back and her hair is flowing and her hands are travelling all over her body.” In Reign there is a controversial scene in which her character Lady Kenna masturbates in a stairwell. “When I masturbate,” Stasey says with alarming frankness, “I look like an ogre because I’m generally in sweatpants and I’ve just finished eating. Women are supposed to be these hairless asexual virgins who then become mothers.”