Patricia Arquette: I was ‘terrified’ of my ‘Lost Highway’ nude scene, but David Lynch had my back

Patricia Arquette built a career by showing up in eclectic, high-profile 1990s flicks like “Ed Wood,” “Bringing Out the Dead” and “Holy Matrimony.”

But there was one film that the Oscar winner, 55, appears to have found a little bit too weird — the mysterious 1997 thriller “Lost Highway.”

Arquette recently opened up about her experience on the cult-fave David Lynch project — and why filming an iconic nude scene was actually a “terrifying” experience, Variety reported.

Patricia Arquette and Balthazar Getty in the “Lost Highway.” Alamy Stock Photo

Arquette portrayed the dual role of Renee Madison/Alice Wakefield in the drama, alongside an ensemble cast that consisted of Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty, Gary Busey, Giovanni Ribisi and Richard Pryor.

During an appearance at the Series Mania Festival in France on Thursday, Arquette noted that at the time, she was “so extremely modest.”

“I would take a bath in the dark,” she said. “The scene when my character had to strip was terrifying to me.”

The “Boyhood” star added that the cast and crew would say degrading things to her when she had to peel off her clothes.

However, Lynch, 78, came to her defense after she revealed that she was unhappy with having to be naked.

Arquette noted she was uncomfortable with being nude on screen. Courdji Sebastien/ABACA/Shutterstock

“Some of the guys were saying crude things and I told David: ‘I am not comfortable,'” she confessed. “‘They are saying gross things.'”

“He said, ‘You read the script. Wait, who said what?’ When I came back, all these men were looking at their feet, all apologetic,” Arquette recalled.

“The Act” alum then discussed how uneasy she was while doing the intimate scenes.

Noting that it was “supposed to be a closed set,” Arquette recalled: “I said, ‘If I take this robe off, and I look at you and I know you don’t have to be there, I am going to punch you in the face.'”

“Later, I told [costar] Balthazar [Getty], ‘Just keep your hands on my tits. I would rather you hold them than the whole world saw them,'” she remembered.

Arquette’s career skyrocketed by the 1990s, as she starred in high-profile flicks such as “Ed Wood.” WireImage

Elsewhere in the interview at the event, she happily recalled working on Martin Scorsese’s 1999 film “Bringing Out the Dead.”

She gushed over the “incredibly generous” director, referencing an incident on the set where she expressed her concerns over her performance.

The “Aviator” filmmaker, 81, then paused filming so Arquette could fix up her scene and get it right.

“I remember one time the monitors went off when he was watching [a scene], and he said, ‘That’s good we’ve got it.’

“And I said, how do you know Marty? The monitors went off. And he said: I can hear it. You can hear it when it’s right,” Arquette said.