14 Actors Who've Said "No" To On-Screen Nudity And Sex Scenes Out Of Respect For Their Partners, Families, Religion, And More

For the most recent season of You, Penn Badgley asked producers to do fewer sex scenes out of respect for his marriage. He said, "Fidelity in every relationship, including my marriage, is important to me. It's got to the point where I don't want to [film sex scenes]."

1. Samuel L. Jackson has appeared in over 150 movies and has avoided showing full-frontal nudity in all of them. He said if he ever had to, he'd probably ask for a "dick double."

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When Howard Stern asked if Samuel felt like his dick wasn't big enough, Samuel replied, "I don't know if it's formidable enough. My aura's so big, I don't know if my dick is big enough to fill my aura."

2. Megan Fox has turned down roles because they have graphic sex scenes that she wouldn't want her family to see. She said, "There are some good projects I've read that are with talented people, talented directors, but the things the women are required to do in the movie are things I can't have my sons ever know or see."

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She turned down an HBO role where she was supposed to play a sex worker, and said, "Those are things that are degrading to the woman who's playing the character."

3. Penn Badgley asked You creator Sera Gamble for fewer sex scenes in Season 4 out of respect for his marriage. He explained that his "desire would be zero, to go from 100 to zero” but was willing to compromise with the writers.