"I strolled onto set, nothing on, and started that particular soliloquy."
That's the reason it makes headlines when an actor agrees to go completely exposed onscreen — yet if you ask them about it, they're usually fairly casual about it!
Here's what these celebrities had to say about revealing everything:
"Everybody makes such a big deal. It’s a body. Once you see it you realize it’s whatever. I just have to make it not that big of a deal," he shared on Watch What Happens Live.
"There's certainly a double standard because nobody would talk about it if it were a woman. I would say, 'Why? Because women are expected to do it and men aren't? 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? Yet violence, self-flagellation, and hurting one another we can do—because that's what we've been taught culturally is OK?' I don't know. It certainly seems to be an odd thing," Pine said to E! News.
"We had a shower scene in the movie. And David [Fincher] assured me, because trust is essential with directors and actors: ‘Listen, if we tilt down we will never go far enough to see anything.’ So thank you, David. And I’d like to thank you for keeping the set cool. Because if you are gonna have one chance for America to see your junk you want it to be cold. It’s a real gift," Ben joked at the Hollywood Film Awards.
"Being naked is something that happens at either end of the day for me, and if you're lucky, somewhere in the middle as well. And I don't understand why it's an issue. I don't take my clothes off in movies because I want to flash my body around. I took my clothes off for movies because I'm an actor," Ewan told E!
“In the second, he said, ‘Well, if she has to be naked, I’ll be naked, too,’ That’s pretty badass! I’ve always been grateful to him for standing up to the producers," Lea told Indiewire.
"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!'" he shared with Vulture.
"We hurtled through the whole of this film, and I kind of pd that the best way to start was to make sure the crew knew who and what Dom was. So I thought the best way to go was to start with this crazy opening scene, which is incredibly explicit and I'm naked. So I strolled onto set, nothing on, and started that particular soliloquy," Jude told E!
“My problem with nudity though — I did a movie called Wild Things, it was full-frontal nudity. And I didn't have a problem with it, because it's a scene getting out of the shower and it was just that kind of movie. What I did have a problem with was the fact that when I went to promote the movie — and even to this day — that's all I talk about. So it kind of ended up being, I don't know, just kind of boring to me as a topic of conversation," Kevin said in an interview with Business Insider.
"There was a creative idea behind it; it wasn’t just for shock value. I wanted it to be the most humiliating breakup of all time. When I was writing it, I thought to myself, 'The problem with romantic comedies is, you know what’s going to happen. The guy on the poster is going to end up with the girl on the poster.' But if I open this movie with something you cannot believe you’re seeing, you’re sort of forced to go into a different attitude. You don’t know what’s going to happen in this movie," Jason told Vulture.
"If I recall, [the nudity] wasn’t in the script. It was just in the natural process of making the movie. I certainly felt vulnerable, but I think it’s different for men than women," he said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“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?" James said.
Shooting hot and passionate scenes in films is quite typical, but when it comes to male performers really baring it all on camera, it's a completely different story.
That's the reason it makes headlines when an actor agrees to go completely exposed onscreen — yet if you ask them about it, they're usually fairly casual about it!
Here's what these celebrities had to say about revealing everything:
1. Jesse Williams – Take Me Out
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"Everybody makes such a big deal. It’s a body. Once you see it you realize it’s whatever. I just have to make it not that big of a deal," he shared on Watch What Happens Live.
2. Chris Pine — Outlaw King
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"There's certainly a double standard because nobody would talk about it if it were a woman. I would say, 'Why? Because women are expected to do it and men aren't? 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? Yet violence, self-flagellation, and hurting one another we can do—because that's what we've been taught culturally is OK?' I don't know. It certainly seems to be an odd thing," Pine said to E! News.
3. Ben Affleck — Gone Girl
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"We had a shower scene in the movie. And David [Fincher] assured me, because trust is essential with directors and actors: ‘Listen, if we tilt down we will never go far enough to see anything.’ So thank you, David. And I’d like to thank you for keeping the set cool. Because if you are gonna have one chance for America to see your junk you want it to be cold. It’s a real gift," Ben joked at the Hollywood Film Awards.
4. Ewan McGregor — Multiple Films
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"Being naked is something that happens at either end of the day for me, and if you're lucky, somewhere in the middle as well. And I don't understand why it's an issue. I don't take my clothes off in movies because I want to flash my body around. I took my clothes off for movies because I'm an actor," Ewan told E!
5. Tom Cruise — All The Right Moves
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“In the second, he said, ‘Well, if she has to be naked, I’ll be naked, too,’ That’s pretty badass! I’ve always been grateful to him for standing up to the producers," Lea told Indiewire.
6. Michael Fassbender — Shame
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"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!'" he shared with Vulture.
7. Jude Law — Dom Hemingway
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"We hurtled through the whole of this film, and I kind of pd that the best way to start was to make sure the crew knew who and what Dom was. So I thought the best way to go was to start with this crazy opening scene, which is incredibly explicit and I'm naked. So I strolled onto set, nothing on, and started that particular soliloquy," Jude told E!
8. Kevin Bacon — Wild Things
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“My problem with nudity though — I did a movie called Wild Things, it was full-frontal nudity. And I didn't have a problem with it, because it's a scene getting out of the shower and it was just that kind of movie. What I did have a problem with was the fact that when I went to promote the movie — and even to this day — that's all I talk about. So it kind of ended up being, I don't know, just kind of boring to me as a topic of conversation," Kevin said in an interview with Business Insider.
9. Jason Segel — Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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"There was a creative idea behind it; it wasn’t just for shock value. I wanted it to be the most humiliating breakup of all time. When I was writing it, I thought to myself, 'The problem with romantic comedies is, you know what’s going to happen. The guy on the poster is going to end up with the girl on the poster.' But if I open this movie with something you cannot believe you’re seeing, you’re sort of forced to go into a different attitude. You don’t know what’s going to happen in this movie," Jason told Vulture.
10. Richard Gere — American Gigolo
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"If I recall, [the nudity] wasn’t in the script. It was just in the natural process of making the movie. I certainly felt vulnerable, but I think it’s different for men than women," he said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
11. James McAvoy — The Last King of Scotland
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“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?" James said.