Skip navigation! Story from TV Shows. While Bonet played the flighty and popular daughter of Cliff Huxtable Cosby on screen, off screen she upset Cosby with her choice to do a sex scene with Mickey Rourke in the movie Angel Heart , and her topless appearance in Interview magazine to promote the film. She was fired for "creative differences" and not included in the show's finale. And that type of sinister, shadow energy cannot be concealed," she told the outlet. Cosby has been accused by over 50 women of sexual misconduct, including drugging and raping them. Cosby's representatives deny all allegations of drugging or non consensual sex. However, Bonet says there was "always" a darkness surrounding Cosby, but if she "had anything more to reveal then it would have happened a long time ago. The truth will set you free.

A hard choice in editing made this movie able to release.

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Please refresh the page and retry. I n , Lisa Bonet certified her status as an icon of late-Eighties pop culture with her appearance in Angel Heart. As voodoo priestess Epiphany Proudfoot, Bonet slaughters chickens, has graphic sex in a shower of blood, and appears seemingly allergic to shirts not soaked in cold water. The problem was that Bonet was also Denise Huxtable, the sarcastic, sartorially-extroverted teen daughter on that most straight-laced and finger-wagging of Eighties American sitcoms, The Cosby Show. A bonafide teen idol, Bonet seemed poised to launch a successful film career, but was seemingly ill-prepared for the fallout the film would bring, along with the damage it caused to her relationship with Bill Cosby himself. A ngel Heart was an obviously radical departure for Bonet from the show that launched her career,.
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The 10 seconds of ''Angel Heart'' that audiences couldn't see in theaters last spring will be available in their homes in September. The 14 feet of film of lovemaking between Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet that Alan Parker was forced to cut in order to get an R rating has been added for the video-cassette version. Parker, who directed and wrote the screenplay for ''Angel Heart,'' an occult detective story that stars Robert De Niro as the Devil and Mickey Rourke as the sleazy investigator who is trapped in his web. The ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America said the combination of sex and violence - both actors were drenched with blood - made the scene too strong for children. But Mr. Parker is still not resigned to having cut 10 seconds from the scene in order to avoid an X rating, which would have prohibited anyone under 17 from watching the movie. More effective.
Is 'The Invisible Man' on Netflix? He created a spin-off series for her A Different World where she would go for its first season before returning to The Cosby Show for a little while before a pregnancy gave Cosby a reason finally to fire her. Cosby was, for decades, an influential voice in the industry. His partnership with Robert Culp in I, Spy gave him particular clout in a climate that is to this day notoriously unwelcoming to black creators. The Cosby Show , while aspirational for some, is a dangerous fantasy of a post-racial America for others. Like so many things our leaders told us in that decade, it was all a disgusting lie.