Famous Celebrities and Their Daring R-Rated Movie Debuts

Viggo Mortensen

Mortensen’s silver screen debut was in 1985’s Witness, where he played an Amish farmer named Moses Hochleitner. The thriller also starred Harrison Ford. Witness was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning two for Best Film Editing and Best Original Screenplay.

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The More You Know

  • Worldwide ticket sales for the Saw franchise put it at just shy of a billion dollars, making it the highest earning horror franchise globally.
  • The iconic body and hand in the poster for American Beauty belong to actress/model Chloe Hunter, not Mena Suvari.
  • Executive producer of Toy Story and Chief Pixar shareholder Steve Jobs picked Bob Dylan as his first choice to write and perform the soundtrack to the film over Randy Newman.
  • Robert Ludlum, the creator of the Jason Bourne series, died while the first Bourne film was in post-production.
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