10 Movie Scenes More Real Than You Think

5. "Are You Sleeping With Her?" - Chinatown

Fast Times At Ridgemont High Judge Reinhold Phoebe Cates
Paramount Pictures

Roman Polanski's classic neo-noir stars Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes, a private investigator who finds himself caught up in a web of conspiracy of murder, putting him at odds with corrupt water magnate Noah Cross (John Huston).

When Gittes meets Cross for lunch during his investigation, Cross soon changes the subject to his daughter Evelyn (Faye Dunaway), who Jake is working for.

Cross asks him, "Are you sleeping with her?", which wouldn't have been quite so awkward for Jack Nicholson were he not also dating Huston's actual daughter, Anjelica, in real life at the time.

To make matters worse, legend dictates that the day this scene was filmed was also the only day that Anjelica herself was on set to visit her father and partner. Oof.

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