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6. Natalie Portman Didn't Want To Dive Into Cold Water - Your Highness

Your Highness Natalie Portman
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Pretty much the only reason anyone remembers the 2010 stoner comedy Your Highness is for the sequence in which Natalie Portman's heroine strips down to a metal thong and takes a dip in the nearby lake.

And while you'd be forgiven for assuming that Portman had a stunt double for the strip scene itself, that's actually not the case.

Portman did get down to her undergarments herself, but when it came to getting wet, she deferred to a body double because the water was "really, really cold."

Coming mere months after the Black Swan controversy, where Portman's dance double claimed the Oscar-winning actress did much less of the work than the studio claimed, this story didn't help the actress' reputation for preciousness.

Still, it all blew over pretty quickly and, er, Your Highness faded fast into obscurity.

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