Betty Gilpin Was Worried About Smelling 'Like Diapers' for Three Women Sex Scenes — but Instead Wound Up Smelling Like Pickles

It’s safe to say that Betty Gilpin had nerves before the shoot Three women.

Gilpin, 38, stars as Lina in the Starz series, which follows three women – Lina, Sloane (DeWanda Wise) and Maggie (Gabrielle Creevy) – who all meet Gia (Shailene Woodley) and tell her their stories.

The story is about “female sexuality,” among other things, as Gilpin told Seth Meyers Late Night with Seth Meyers October 29 — which meant there were plenty of sex scenes involved.

“I used to do a lot of sex scenes,” Gilpin said, joking about her six-month-old and three-year-old. “I want my daughters to be proud when they Google me in the future.”

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These sex scenes – all of which were with Austin Stowell – felt different because it was her “first time as a mom.”

Telling Meyers, 50, that she “became really self-conscious,” she shared the roundabout way she dealt with her problem — though, in hindsight, it could have only made things worse.

Lina (Betty Gilpin) and Aidan (Austin Stowell) in ‘Three Women’.

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“I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to smell like diapers and cheddar bunnies.’ So I thought, I’ll get a new perfume,” Gilpin said. “And Seth, when I tell you I doused myself in this perfume—it was like I doused myself in this perfume… In retrospect, it wasn’t great.”

At the time, she thought, “It smells great,” but an interaction with the makeup artist a few months later completely changed her perspective.

“Long story short, months after we finished production. I was working with a new make-up artist who – I was wearing perfume – leaned over to do my make-up, left [gag]. ‘Are you wearing?’ — and said the name of the perfume. I don’t want to blow them up,” Gilpin continued.

Betty Gilpin on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ October 29, 2024

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“And I said, ‘Yes.’ And she said, ‘Do you know this particular perfume – do you know that some people taste soap with cilantro?’ and I said, ‘Mhm.’ And she said, ‘Some people smell like pickles with this perfume, so I need you to wash it off right away’.”

The revelation naturally sent Gilpin into a spiral, and she joked that at the time she thought Stowell, 38, was “having the artistic feminist experience of her life.”

“Meanwhile, he was like, [gag]’I’m having sex with a pickle.'”

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Aside from the sex scene, Three womenbased on Lisa Taddeo’s 2019 bestseller of the same name, “finds three women on a crash course to radically turn their lives around,” according to the official synopsis.

Gilpin’s character Lina is a “suburban Indiana housewife” who “has been in a passionless marriage for a decade when she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life” (credit: Stowell).

Lina (Betty Gilpin) and Gia (Shailene Woodley) in ‘Three Women’.

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Wise stars as “glamorous entrepreneur” Sloane, who is in a “committed open marriage to Richard (Blair Underwood), until two sexy new suitors threaten their eager love story.”

Creevy stars as young Maggie, a college student in North Dakota who “survives an intense storm after accusing her married English teacher (Jason Ralph) of an inappropriate relationship.”

Woodley’s character Gia was added for the series and was modeled after Tadde’s own life during the process of writing the book and meeting women. Gia “gets each of these three spectacular ‘ordinary’ women to tell her their stories, and her relationships with them change the course of her life forever.”

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