Famous Celebrities and Their Daring R-Rated Movie Debuts

Selena Gomez

Disney sweetheart Selena Gomez broke the traditional good girl mold with her performance in Spring Breakers (2012). Gomez joined the film to do something “more adult.” It earned $31 million worldwide and starred James Franco as Alien, a drug dealer who takes her with him on a life of crime.

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The More You Know

  • Paranormal Activity cost $15000 to make and has grossed $210 million so far.
  • In classic Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was actually older than his on-screen mother, Jessie Royce Landis.
  • In Home Alone, Buzz's girlfriend is actually a boy in a wig. The director thought it would be too mean to ask a girl to be in the film this way.
  • In the first draft of the Back to the Future screenplay, the time machine wasn't a Delorean, it was a refrigerator.
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