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Daryl Hannah Recalls Being 'Really Anxious' Over Nudity in Splash: 'I Hadn't Had a Boyfriend Yet'

Daryl Hannah, looking back at 'Splash' on its 40th anniversary, recalls being "incredibly anxious" about the nudity required of her mermaid character, and feeling embarrassed while rehearsing onscreen kisses with costar Tom Hanks.

He also remembers that the Splash team settled on “a bandage or kind of pasty or something that was glued onto her breast” to navigate the Disney film’s nudity. Splash, which also starred Hanks, Eugene Levy and the late John Candy, became one of the highest grossing movies of 1984 and earned an Academy Award nomination for Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman’s original screenplay. While she’s not looking to act onscreen again, Hannah does say that a project on par with Splash might fit the bill: “I suppose if something really cool that I thought would transform me in that kind of way came up, I might do it.”

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