Academy award and Oscar winner Mahershala Ali recently opened up about doing sex scenes as a devout Muslim. He shared a story about refusing to do a sex scene in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. “So my old agent called me and said, ‘Mahershala, you got the part.’ And I said, ‘There’s just one thing: There is that one sex scene where they kiss. If there’s a sex scene, I can’t do it.’ ”
“I don’t do simulated sex,” he reportedly told his agent, since it would conflict with his faith. Luckily, movie director David Fincher agreed to a tame romantic scene between Mahershala and Taraji P. Henson. “Taraji and I begin to kiss, and we fall out of the frame. It wasn’t clear if [Fincher] was trying to have, like, some bumping and grinding, which I doubt he was,” he said. “But for me even at that time, 15 years ago, I was still like, ‘OK, I can only go up to this point,’ just because of — just trying to hold a space of respect for my religion.”
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Check out more about Mahershala Ali refusing to do a sex scene because of his religion: https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/mahershala-ali-refused-sex-scene-religious-beliefs
