Heather Graham was done playing by her family’s rules by the time “Boogie Nights” rolled around in 1997.
Heather Graham was done playing by her family’s rules by the time “Boogie Nights” rolled around in 1997.
“I grew up in a religious family, and they were like, ‘Don’t do anything with any sexual content’,” Graham recently shared on the “Inside of You” podcast with actor Michael Rosenbaum. “But try to be a woman in Hollywood in your early 20s, mid-20s, and then to try to get no roles with any sexual content, it’s like impossible.”
At the time, Graham says her agent encouraged her to take the job, one that would have her playing a porn star.
“I had turned down a few things where there was sexual content, and then I saw other people having really good careers,” Graham continued. “I just said, ‘Screw it. I wanna do this. The script [for ‘Boogie Nights’] is amazing.’”
Graham, who goes nude in the film, says she booked the job because “somebody really famous” initially passed on the role.
