They don’t have to be totally nekkid, just enough so that you can gauge their body.
I came across Smokey & the Bandit 3 while channel surfing- for those who have missed it, it’s easily one of the worst big-budget movies ever made (is it possible to be worse than a big-budget unfunny comedy [assuming Jerry Bruckheimer isn’t involved]?). I only watched a moment of it, but the scene took place in a nudist colony and Junior, the doofus son of Jackie Gleason, is walking around naked.
The “actor”, Mike Henry, had a gorgeous body (and amazingly youthful considering he was 45 when it was filmed). I didn’t know until IMDB that he once played Tarzan .
So who are some other actors/actresses who surprised you by how good they looked when they disrobed? Two come to mind for me:
Sean Hayes in Will & Grace
Billy Crystal in City Slickers 2 (though he was shirtless again at the Academy Awards and he has substantially deprogrammed, though in his defense he is now a grandfather)
John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda- while he’s not likely to be the pin-up on a gay teenagers wall, for a middle-aged fellow he looked surprisingly good.
I came across Smokey & the Bandit 3 while channel surfing- for those who have missed it, it’s easily one of the worst big-budget movies ever made (is it possible to be worse than a big-budget unfunny comedy [assuming Jerry Bruckheimer isn’t involved]?). I only watched a moment of it, but the scene took place in a nudist colony and Junior, the doofus son of Jackie Gleason, is walking around naked.
The “actor”, Mike Henry, had a gorgeous body (and amazingly youthful considering he was 45 when it was filmed). I didn’t know until IMDB that he once played Tarzan .
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Quick hijack. Mike Henry was really considered a he-man actor at one time. The Smokey and the Bandit movies completely killed his career, as no one could take him seriously anymore. So there was nothing left.
Helen Mirren, proof that 50 can be Nifty. Shelley Duvall. I thought she would be all skin and bones, but when I saw her in a swimsuit, she didn’t look much different from a lot of small-breasted, slender models. Jeff Goldblum clearly keeps himself in shape.
I’m embarassed to even say this, but there was an episode of Saved by the Bell, once they were all older and in college, where Screech was in a muscle top for some reason. I wouldn’t say he looked good, just much different from the scrawny geek-boy they always portrayed him as.