Famous Celebrities and Their Daring R-Rated Movie Debuts

Kerry Washington

Washington’s debut was in the R-rated movie Our Song (2000), which was later considered one of the year’s most underrated films. Washington went on to receive critical acclaim for the role and her career subsequently blossomed.

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The More You Know

  • Some of the velociraptor noises in "Jurassic Park" are actually tortoises mating.
  • Frank Sinatra was offered the lead role in Die Hard.
  • For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
  • The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
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