Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas in Original Sin
The film's intense content got director Michael Cristofer in trouble with the Motion Picture Association of America.
As you might expect from the name, Angelina Jolie's 2001 blockbuster Original Sin was definitely sinful.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the film's intense content got director Michael Cristofer in trouble with the Motion Picture Association of America, who insisted he cut some scenes to get an R rating.
"Censors caught me." said the Times. "I know they don't like to be called censors, but they are.
This movie is about obsession, and I had to cut too much for my money."
He's not the only one who faced the wrath of people who couldn't handle the heat of the movie.
According to ABC News, tabloids began to speculate that Melanie Griffith, who was married to star Antonio Banderas, was jealous of her husband's steamy scenes with Jolie.
This was a problem during filming, but Jolie claimed that she was friends with Griffith, who often stopped by the set.
In an attempt to further shut down the rumors, Jolie accidentally created a rumor of her own. She said she'd rather sleep with Griffith than Banderas, and the tabloids ran with him.
"I was being playful, it was my way of saying that he is married to a beautiful woman and that I would rather sleep with her than have an affair with him," she said. It's hard to win with the tabloids when your movie is so h-t.
