# Most degrading or humiliating scene for an actress/actor

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**Created:** [July 22, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-degrading-or-humiliating-scene-for-an-actress-actor/190102 "2003-07-22T07:24:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-degrading-or-humiliating-scene-for-an-actress-actor/190102/101 "2003-07-26T03:53:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by elf6c \*  
> \*\*Point taken, but given the situation of a man getting anally raped in front of his friends by the dirty, stinking backwoods fellow, while be forced to “squeel like a pig” given the time it was filmed and the incessant jokes and unfortunate single note highlight to his career to me makes it by far the “winner”.
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> No matter what he has done “squeel like a pig” is the first thing that comes to mind when Ned Beatty is mentioned.
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> [http://us.imdb.com/Name?Beatty,+Ned](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Beatty,+Ned)
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> 120+ appearances in films and TV, and is he remembered for that scene. Pretty humiliating if you ask me. \*\*

Yeah, but how many actors appear in dozens of films and _never_ get that sort of recognition? Most of them would sell their left kidney for that kind of fame. That scene was memorable because it was a damned good scene in a damned good movie. It was powerful and disturbing and beilliantly acted, and _that_ is why it is so memorable. What would be humiliating is if the scene had sucked, and people had laughed at it, and the whole thing was universally panned, and it was still the most memorable thing Beatty had ever done. Being remembered for being in one of the most famous and lauded scenes in cinematic history has got to be the very antithesis of “humiliating.”

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