Heather Graham did ‘Boogie Nights’ nude scene despite her family’s religious beliefs: ‘Screw it. I wanna do this’
nypost.com“Boogie Nights” rolled around in 1997.“I grew up in a religious family, and they were like, ‘Don’t do anything with any sexual content,'” Graham recently shared on the “Inside of You” podcast with actor Michael Rosenbaum. “But try to be a woman in Hollywood in your early 20s, mid-20s, and then to try to get no roles with any sexual content, it’s like impossible.”At the time, Graham says her agent encouraged her to take the job, one that would have her playing a porn star.“I had turned down a few things where there was sexual content, and then I saw other people having really good careers,” Graham continued. “I just said, ‘Screw it.
I wanna do this. The script [for ‘Boogie Nights’] is amazing.'”Graham, who goes nude in the film, says she booked the job because “somebody really famous” initially passed on the role. “That was a just huge, great turning point in my career,” she said of the movie. “I feel grateful to have been in it.”Graham starred alongside Mark Wahlberg, Don Cheadle, John C.
Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman, all of whom are household names now, but were not as famous at the time as acclaimed co-stars Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore.
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