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Actors Who Have Gone Full-Frontal Naked in Movies and TV: Stars Who Have Bared It All
While female actors have been doing full-frontal nude scenes in film for years, it’s rare that a male actor will do the same. But there’s a handful of stars who have bared it all by going full frontal in the name of art … and sometimes humor.
Bradley Cooper is the most recent A-lister to go nude for the sake of his craft. He called his scene in 2021’s Nightmare Alley “a big deal” during an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, as he’s seen fully naked from the front and side while in a bathtub, engaging in a sex act with actress Toni Collette‘s character.
“I remember reading in the script and thinking, ‘He’s a pickled punk in that bathtub and it’s to story. You have to do it,’” he recalled. “I can still remember that day just to be naked in front of the crew for six hours, and it was Toni Collette’s first day. It was just like, ‘Whoa.’ It was pretty heavy.”
The eight-time Oscar nominee said that he didn’t hesitate about baring it all for the scene “because there was nothing gratuitous about it. It was to story.”
Ewan McGregor has appeared full frontal so many times in films that he’s got all his peers beat. But as for showing his goods in films such as Trainspotting and Velvet Goldmine, “It’s all about life,” the actor told the U.K.’s Express in 2011, adding, “We’re naked at the end of the day, and we’re sometimes naked in the middle of the day — if we’re lucky.”
Ben Affleck was given some sage advice from his Gone Girl director, David Fincher, when it came to his now infamous nude shower scene in 2014. “David said to me from the beginning, ‘This is a warts-and-all movie. It can have no vanity. You have to see the naked underbelly of this character. It’s gotta be like in Europe; they just don’t give a s—t about any of that stuff and they just play real people.’ [So] there is some brief, very brief nudity,” he told MTV News while promoting the film.
But his interviewer, Josh Horowitz, then snarked, “We’re selling this on the penis!” to which Ben replied, “The penis is in there!” He went on to joke, “It costs extra. It’s IMAX penis! You’ve gotta pay 15 bucks to see it in 3-D. It looks better in 3-D.” But it came with a caveat, as Ben noted about how the temperature during filming might have affected his naked and exposed body. “It was a very cold set. It was freezing. It was subzero,” he added.
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Rory Culkin
The actor made headlines for his cameo in Prime Video’s March 2023 series Swarm, where was fully nude with his penis smashed up against a bowl of strawberries.
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Theo James
Fans of The White Lotus: Sicily got to see what was between Theo’s legs — literally — when he stripped naked to change into swim trunks, highly impressing many viewers with his manhood on the October 2022, season 2 premiere of the HBO Max anthology series.
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Jesse Williams
While it wasn’t in a film, Grey’s Anatomy alum Jesse Williams appeared fully nude in his 2022 Broadway debut for the play Take Me Out. Though phones were banned from inside the theater, one fan snuck theirs in and captured the hunk full frontal naked onstage, sharing it on social media. The photo of Jesse in his impressive birthday suit made fans go wild on Twitter.
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Bradley Cooper
The Oscar nominee disrobed for the 2021 film Nightmare Alley, saying, “It was pretty heavy” doing a full-frontal nude scene. But he added there was nothing “gratuitous about it,” as it was necessary for the movie’s plot line.
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Ewan McGregor
Unlike many other stars, Ewan is no stranger to nude scenes, having gone full-frontal in more than one movie, including Trainspotting, Young Adam and Ghost Write, just to name a few.
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Ben Affleck
Director David Fincher’s 2014 film Gone Girl was both a box-office smash, as well as a hit with the critics, although it could have had a lot to do with Ben’s nude shower scene!
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Michael Fassbender
The actor’s award-winning portrayal of a sex addict in the 2011 drama Shame arguably required his willingness to go fully nude in front of the camera, which certainly paid off in the end.
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Jude Law
After playing bathtub chess with a clothed Matt Damon’s Tom Ripley in 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Jude’s wealthy playboy Dickie emerged from the tub fully naked and wet.
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Jason Segel
The How I Met Your Mother star proved to audiences that nudity could be used to great comedic effect in 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, where he famously dropped his bath towel mid-breakup.
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Tom Hardy
Tom underwent yet another physical transformation to play the title character in 2009’s Bronson, a role that required baring it all, in more ways than one.
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Bruce Willis
While 1994’s Color of Night may not be particularly well-known, the movie was credited to have some of the steamiest sex scenes in Hollywood history, along with a shot of a very naked Bruce Willis in a pool.
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Viggo Mortensen
Viggo may have made a name for himself playing Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but prior to landing his iconic role, he took on a fully nude fight scene in 1991’s The Indian Runner.
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Kevin Bacon
While Kevin may have committed to more than one full-frontal nudity scene, 1998’s erotic mystery and thriller, Wild Things, was the start of it all.
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Richard Gere
Playing a male prostitute in 1980’s American Gigolo, Richard managed to woo women on and off the screen, with a full frontal nudity scene contributing to his cause.
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