ASHLEY JUDD DID NOT BUG OUT

Ashley Judd didn’t mind her creepy crawly co-stars in Bug.

Ashley Judd stars in Bug, the creepy crawly adaptation of the Off-Broadway play which finds her character sinking into madness trapped in her live-in hotel lover convinced there are bugs burrowing into their bodies.

Surprisingly Ashley didn’t bug out imagining these insects were making themselves right at home but spent a large majority of the movie scratching.

“Well we do that in the film. We become increasingly convinced that our physical persons are infested with bugs and so scratching was a natural reaction to that. Well the bugs are an imagined phenomenon in the movie and so it didn’t really alter my relationship to bugs. I like bugs. I’m grateful for them. They feed birds. Some of them are very helpful in the garden. And I try to have a lot of respect for all forms of life. So I don’t have a problem with bugs.”

Harry Connick, Jr. is pretty scary as Ashley’s abusive ex-con boyfriend who tries to come back into her life when he is released from prison. She says she didn’t bug out in the scene where he punches her in the face.

“Any time that there’s a stunt involved it’s very carefully rehearsed and everyone has the opportunity to voice their concerns and everyone stays really safe. That was a great day. That was a great day. We had a lot of fun. I was really moved by doing that scene. It was exactly the kind of thing that I lived for in acting school, to be opposite a very spontaneous, a very relaxed real actor and being able to use the space and see what happens. It was a lot of fun.”

Ashley is currently shooting Crossing Over based on a true story as an attorney representing a seven year-old Nigerian girl lost within the immigration services bureaucracy who spent two years in the juvenile detention system when her mother abandoned her for fear of deportment. Bug directed by William Friedkin is currently playing in theaters.