# Things a celebrity won't do **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526 "2006-08-06T03:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/21 "2006-08-06T22:22:31Z")
> [@Skald the Rhymer](#): > > 😕 > > Homer is close to being an alcoholic in the same sense that Nashville is close to the capital of Tennessee. Homer’s not an alcoholic. Alcoholics go to meetings. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/22 "2006-08-06T22:30:37Z")
Rumor has it that Denzel Washington won’t do a love scene w/ a white woman. In ‘Mississippi Masala’ he got pretty hot w/ an Asian Indian girl, tho. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/23 "2006-08-06T22:47:33Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > When Patrick Macnee did “The Avengers” he insisted that his character, John Steed, wouldn’t use a gun; Macnee’s WWII experiences had given him a strong distaste for firearms. Similarly, I remember reading that Drew Barrymore decided the new Charlie’s Angels wouldn’t use guns - at least in the first movie. I don’t remember the second. Of course, since Drew was also a producer on the film, this was pretty easy to make happen. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/24 "2006-08-06T23:24:30Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > I don’t think she really qualifies as a celebrity, what with not having worked in 15+ years, and then only on one television series. She was definitely a celebrity. Apart from _The Facts of Life_, she also starred in _The New Mickey Mouse Club_ and various TV movies, and she was a frequent fixture in talk shows and entertainment magazines. For a time, her name was pretty much synonymous with teen beauty. The fact that she has mostly kept off television for 15 years or so merely means that she’s retired from showbiz. It doesn’t make her a non-celebrity. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/25 "2006-08-06T23:49:41Z")
> [@Nawth Chucka](#): > > Rumor has it that Denzel Washington won’t do a love scene w/ a white woman. In ‘Mississippi Masala’ he got pretty hot w/ an Asian Indian girl, tho. ? Where’d that come from? He fucked Milla Jovivich in “He Got Game”. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/26 "2006-08-07T00:08:12Z")
> [@](#): > > When Patrick Macnee did “The Avengers” he insisted that his character, John Steed, wouldn’t use a gun; Macnee’s WWII experiences had given him a strong distaste for firearms. I know Macnee says this now, but he is 84 years old; his memory is probably amiss, as he did use firearms on **The Avengers**. Not a hell of a lot, but especially in the first three, fairly serious seasons, he often packed heat. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/27 "2006-08-07T01:57:49Z")
I believe Kristin Chenoweth won’t do sex scenes and seems to be a firm believer in no sex before marriage (it was a major point of her character in her TV show). ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/28 "2006-08-07T01:58:51Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > ? Where’d that come from? He fucked Milla Jovivich in “He Got Game”. Comes from comments like [this](http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/r/remember-the-titans2.shtml) guy made - but I see that article was written in 2000 and he did He Got Game in 1998. 😕 I take it back. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/29 "2006-08-07T02:00:57Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > She was definitely a celebrity. Apart from _The Facts of Life_, she also starred in _The New Mickey Mouse Club_ and various TV movies, and she was a frequent fixture in talk shows and entertainment magazines. For a time, her name was pretty much synonymous with teen beauty. > > The fact that she has mostly kept off television for 15 years or so merely means that she’s retired from showbiz. It doesn’t make her a non-celebrity. Don’t forget she made news last year for advocating putting hot sauce on your child’s tongue when they swear. :wally ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/30 "2006-08-07T02:10:18Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Dana Plato offered me a blowjob. For $100. She eventually got down to $20 for a screw, but I wasn’t interested. I was only there for the free food. Really? Or is that woosh? ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/31 "2006-08-07T02:14:51Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I believe Kristin Chenoweth won’t do sex scenes and seems to be a firm believer in no sex before marriage (it was a major point of her character in her TV show). Didn’t her character in “The West Wing” have to have a shotgun wedding? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/32 "2006-08-07T02:18:16Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > None of them have ever done _me_. > > Sean Young, give me a call. Hope you have some [Krazy Glue](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22sean+young%22+%22krazy+OR+super+glue+OR+glued%22&btnG=Google+Search) solvent handy. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/33 "2006-08-07T02:53:02Z")
I heard this when the live action Scooby Doo movie came out: Kasey Casem was such an ardent vegetarian that he quit doing the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo because one scene had Shaggy eating shrimp. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/34 "2006-08-07T03:00:22Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > I heard this when the live action Scooby Doo movie came out: Kasey Casem was such an ardent vegetarian that he quit doing the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo because one scene had Shaggy eating shrimp. It was overeating in general, and meat eating in particular. Shaggy finally became a strict vegetarian to get Kassem to come back in 2002. He still does Shaggy in\* What’s New, Scooby-Doo?\* ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/35 "2006-08-07T11:19:34Z")
> [@](#): > > I know Macnee says this now, but he is 84 years old; his memory is probably amiss, as he did use firearms on The Avengers. Not a hell of a lot, but especially in the first three, fairly serious seasons, he often packed heat. Now I’ve got an excuse to watch more of those “Avengers” episodes on BBC-America. I remember the inimitable Mrs. Peel being a dead shot, but really don’t remember Steed ever using a gun. (But I’m finding that my own memory plays tricks on me.) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/36 "2006-08-07T11:40:20Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Now I’ve got an excuse to watch more of those “Avengers” episodes on BBC-America. I remember the inimitable Mrs. Peel being a dead shot, but really don’t remember Steed ever using a gun. (But I’m finding that my own memory plays tricks on me.) The show was on for several years before Diana Rigg joined it, with MacNee originally playing second banana to Ian Hendry before assuming the central role. MacNee’s character was a moderately-serious professional spy and used firearms. Hendry left the series and MacNee worked with Jon Rollason for a few episodes who was then replaced by a series of sexy female sidekicks; Julie Stevens, Honor Blackman (the first kick-ass female character, which would serve her well when she left to play Pussy Galore in _Goldfinger_), Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson. Rigg is the best-known partner in the U.S. since she joined the show just as ABC started broadcasting. By that time, MacNee’s character relied more on fighting with his umbrella and armored bowler hat, rather than firearms and the show itself had slid well into fantasy and sexual innuendo, rather like the James Bond film series. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/37 "2006-08-07T12:04:19Z")
> [@BobT](#): > > Didn’t her character in “The West Wing” have to have a shotgun wedding? President Bartlett’s daughter had to have the shotgun wedding; Chenowith’s character was something like deputy communications director. At the end of the series her character was developing a crush on Leo, and she’s the one that found him dead in his hotel room on the campaign trail. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/38 "2006-08-07T12:17:19Z")
Israel’sDavid “Dudu” Fisher is a strict Orthodox Jew who was the first actor to have a clause in his “Les Miserables” contracts stating he was not to work on the Sabbath or Jewish holidays. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/39 "2006-08-07T12:52:49Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Israel’sDavid “Dudu” Fisher is a strict Orthodox Jew who was the first actor to have a clause in his “Les Miserables” contracts stating he was not to work on the Sabbath or Jewish holidays. Along the same lines, Stephen Hill (probably best known now as the District Attorney on “Law and Order”) was the original boss of the “Mission: Impossible” team. Legend has it that Hill, who’s an Orthodox Jew, left the show after one season becausing there was a lot of taping required on the Sabbath. Hence, Peter Graves took over and became a star. Jim Caviezel (yeah, Jesus) reportedly refused to do some graphic love scenes with Ashley Judd (cough… homo!.. cough… homo!). And I’ve heard that Darryl Hannah is such a strict vegan, she wouldn’t even pretend to eat a real lobster in “Spalash.” Supposedly, she required they make a plastic lobster and fill it with mashed potatoes. I can’t vouch for the truth of any of these stories, but that doesn’t prevent me from engaging in idel gossip anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Jean\_Poutine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a5b964/32.png) [@Jean\_Poutine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jean_Poutine)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526/40 "2006-08-07T14:32:57Z")
That great thespian Will Smith insisted on a stunt double for the make-out scene with Anthony Micheal Hall in Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or whatever it was called- I guess he was afraid of losing the street cred he didn’t have in the first place? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-a-celebrity-wont-do/367526.md?page=3)