Celebrities Who Refused to Bare It All on Screen

Joan Collins

Dame Joan Collins’ work on film and stage made her a legendary actress, but the iconic star had to reject a role on the West End play circuit because the playwright had asked her to perform live while totally naked. “It is unseemly to undress on stage,” Collins said. The burden of having to bare yourself for strangers night after night also seems like an emotionally taxing ordeal.

The More You Know

Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
That slightly scandalous charcoal drawing of a topless Kate Winslet in Titanic was drawn by none other than the director himself, James Cameron.
Martha Stewart started out as a fashion model.
Because they were shooting in black and white and color didn't matter, they used chocolate syrup as blood when shooting Psycho.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.