8 Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Actor Who Stripped Down: Jennifer Connelly
Why they’re fully nude: Desperate times call for desperate measures.
This is Jennifer Connelly. This is Jennifer Connelly on drugs. Any questions?
While Calvin Klein and his fashionista friends were busy making “heroin chic” an actual phrase and look that some women may have aspired to, Darren Aronofsky was depicting the true devastation that addiction—be it to diet pills or heroin—leaves in its path.
Based on the novel by Hubert Selby, Jr., who also wrote the screenplay, Requiem for a Dream is a disturbingly honest portrait of four drug addicts with different dreams that end in similar states of despair. In Connelly’s case, that means selling herself for drugs, even if that means performing ass-to-ass at sex shows…. That scene definitely contributed to the film’s NC-17 rating, and Aronofsky refused to cut it, leading to its unrated release. This nudity is not for the squeamish.
