Closer director Mike Nichols "burnt" raunchy scenes of
Natalie Portman in the hit movie to stop them falling into the wrong hands.
The sexy actress played a pole dancer in the provocative film, but her topless scenes didn't make it into cinemas.
She told Vanity Fair magazine: "I will not allow myself to be on a porn site… I don't want to be used by someone else for turning me into something that I'm not.
"But I was doing everything because I knew that Mike was going to get my permission about everything and show me everything and talk to me.
"He was like: 'That stuff's going to be burned if we don't use it.'"