13 Actors Who Said “No Thanks” To Prosthetics And Went Full Commando On Screen

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Cooper Koch confirmed that he did not wear any prosthetics for his nude shower scene in Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story.

This post mentions shows/movies that deal with topics like sexual abuse.

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about actors who fooled viewers by wearing prosthetic penises, butts, boobs, and more in their movies and TV shows.

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And since y’all were so fascinated by that, we decided to take a look into the flip side and see how many actors haven’t used prosthetics. So, here are 13 actors who didn’t wear any sort of prosthetic and went au natural in their nude scenes:

1. Cooper Koch appeared naked in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and confirmed he doesn’t wear a prosthetic penis in the series. He even said that he was “shocked” at the public response to the nudity, he said, “I’m an actor, and I’m talking about doing a nude scene in a TV show, and, yes, the TV show also has to do with sexual abuse. Like, it’s just sort of an unfortunate pairing that happened. I was comfortable doing it, and…we all have bodies and body parts, and it’s just sort of, like, normal for me.”

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2. Alison Brie did a nude scene in the movie Somebody I Used To Know where her character streaks through a golf course. “I find it to be quite hilarious. I’m a very comfortable naked person,” she said. “I love streaking. It’s so fun. It really makes me laugh. I always think it makes other people laugh. It’s just one of my favorite things.”

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Alison added that her husband, Dave Franco, who directed and co-wrote the film, doesn’t share the same love for public nudity. “I’ve spent years talking Dave into accepting my comfort with nudity,” she said. “He’s comfortable with me being nude at our home, but in public, he’s more averse to it.”  

3. Jesse Williams starred in Take Me Out on Broadway, where he was required to fully strip down onstage, and after several “Are you sure?” questions from his friends, family, and Grey’s Anatomy castmates, he said he “wasn’t nervous” for them to see the scene.

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He told Andy Cohen, “Everybody makes such a big deal. It’s a body. Once you see it, you realize it’s whatever.” He continued, “It’s a first so I have nothing to compare it to, and I won’t be scared of anything after this, that’s for sure.”

4. When Daniel Radcliffe starred in Equus on Broadway, he had a scene that required him to be fully naked onstage, and said he wasn’t as nervous as he thought he’d be: “It never really was an issue. I don’t know why, it probably should have been. I am terribly self-conscious. Although I remember I did look at my dad once and say, ‘Do you think I could wear pants?’”

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He shared that he actually suffered from Michelangelo’s David Effect: “[David] wasn’t very well endowed, because he was fighting Goliath. There was very much of that effect. You tighten up like a hamster. The first time it happened, I turned around and went, ‘You know, there’s a thousand people here, and I don’t think even one of them would expect you to look your best in this situation.’”

5. Sydney Sweeney has appeared topless in several episodes of Euphoria. She said she feels there’s “a stigma against actresses who get naked on-screen.” She explained, “When a guy has a sex scene or shows his body, he still wins awards and gets praise. But the moment a girl does it, it’s completely different.” She added, “I’m very proud of my work in Euphoria. I thought it was a great performance. But no one talks about it because I got naked.”

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Sydney has also spoken extremely highly of Euphoria‘s creator for listening to and respecting her feelings toward nudity: “Sam [Levinson] is amazing. There are moments where Cassie was supposed to be shirtless and I would tell Sam, ‘I don’t really think that’s necessary here.’ He was like, ‘OK, we don’t need it.’ I’ve never felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show. When I didn’t want to do it, he didn’t make me.”

6. Jennifer Lawrence confirmed that she did not use a body double for her fully naked scene in No Hard Feelings. She explained that she felt totally comfortable on set and wanted to do the nudity herself because of how funny she thought the scene was. “Everyone in my life and my team is doing the right thing and going, ‘Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure?’ I didn’t even have a second thought,” she said. “It was hilarious to me.”

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7. Oscar Isaac went full frontal for his series Scenes From a Marriage but said he didn’t even realize it’d be included in the final cut. “I was surprised because I didn’t know that was gonna happen,” he said. “You get sent the stuff to look at and to be like, ‘Okay, I’m fine with that.’ But I saw it on a laptop, quite dark, and I didn’t notice what was happening down there. It was a surprise when I started seeing all these [headlines] like, ‘It’s full frontal!’ I’m like, ‘No, what are you talking about?! And I saw it clear as day on the big TV there.”

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8. Jason Segel did a full-frontal scene in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and he thought it was “hilarious.” He told Vulture, “I was actually not very uncomfortable doing it. I really felt free.”

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He explained that the nudity wasn’t purely to surprise the audience, because there was actually a creative reason behind it: “You have to put it in the context that this was 2006, 2007, and this hadn’t been done before, in my recollection, where the main guy was going to be naked in the first five minutes of the movie. There was a creative idea behind it, it wasn’t just for shock value.”

9. Michael Fassbender did a full-frontal nude scene in Shame, but he didn’t have time to feel self-conscious because of the film’s tight shooting schedule. “We moved very fast. We shot it in 25 days, so I kind of had to get over it and get on with it,” he said.

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In an interview with Vulture, he even shared that he was confused why there wasn’t MORE male nudity in film. He said, “It just baffles me: Women can parade around naked all the time, but the guy conveniently has his pants on. I remember my mom always complaining about that to me, saying, ‘This is such bullshit, it’s always the women who are naked!’ So I did this one for you, Mom!”

10. Angelina Jolie was tempted to cut her nude scenes in By the Sea, which came out two years after she’d undergone a double mastectomy. She said, “You can’t change or cut this scene because you’ve had a mastectomy. That would be cheating.”

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But years later she posed naked again for Harper’s Bazaar; she opened up about the challenges she faced displaying her body: “My body has been through a lot over the past decade, particularly the past four years, and I have both the visible and invisible scars to show for it.”

11. Halle Berry appeared naked in Monster’s Ball and said that she agreed to the nudity because her costar, Billy Bob Thornton, was doing it too. “It was four days before the end of shooting, so we knew who these people were, and we just went for it,” she said. “We both agreed to be uninhibited with our bodies, so it wasn’t just the woman who was being exposed, and we just said, ‘Let’s service these characters.’ We only had to do it one time, which is good, because you don’t really want to have to go there that many times…”

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12. Chris Pine got fully naked for Outlaw King because he felt like it was only fair since Florence Pugh got nude for the movie too. He said, “Florence shows her entire body in this film and no one is talking about that. Is Florence expected to do that because she is a woman and I’m not expected to do that because I’m a man?”

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He said, “Why aren’t men expected to do it? Why haven’t men done it before? Does it show vulnerability? Does it exhibit this vestigial, puritanical shame over the human body and human intimacy?” He also doesn’t see the big deal over nude bodies, and said, “People want to talk about my penis as if we’re a bunch of teenagers playing spin the bottle.” He added, “This is the fifth film where I’ve had full-frontal male nudity. No one’s ever had such a fuss about it. It says something about our times and I wish people would get over it.”

13. Finally, James McAvoy appeared naked in The Last King of Scotland, and revealed that he actually really enjoys getting naked for his projects. “Yeah, I like to get naked. I like being naked, I like being naked on stage, more than I like being naked on film. Naked on film is not that fun, but naked on stage is really quite freeing. On stage there’s nowhere to hide, you’re completely vulnerable. When you’re completely vulnerable, it can’t get any worse, can it?” he said.

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