# Nude scenes by actresses you don't expect to go nude **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2003, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876 "2003-11-18T08:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/61 "2003-11-19T04:24:33Z")
Helen Mirren was so hot. I’m sure she’d do hard core porn just for the fun of it if it weren’t so bad for mainstream careers. ---
**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/62 "2003-11-19T04:34:18Z")
Christina Ricci, in “Prozac Nation”. GoD! I was expecting that! So cute her breasts are all natural!!! Meg Ryan in don’t know what movie and Carla Gugino in another around. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/63 "2003-11-19T04:46:02Z")
I was rather surprised to see Jennifer Connelly in a full frontal nude shot standing in front of a full length mirror in _Requiem For A Dream_. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/64 "2003-11-19T04:52:21Z")
What surprised me about Jennifer Connelly in Requiem for a Dream was her nude lesbian double dildo scene. I had to run it in slo-mo to see what was going on, but there did appear to be a greasy dildo between her butt and the other woman’s. She shoulda won the Oscar for that scene. Not for anything she did, just having the nerve to do it. ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/65 "2003-11-19T04:52:23Z")
For anyone who has a burning interest in this topic, check out Mr. Skin’s site. He did a “Top Ten” list of “Babe who should have kept their clothes ON” at one point, which list included Kathy Bates and Camryn Manheim, plus some others who I forget. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/66 "2003-11-19T04:53:58Z")
What the hell kind of fun is it to check out a site for a topic like this? I kinda think the fun is seeing what stick’s in people’s minds. ---
**Author:** ![Trillionaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/67 "2003-11-19T04:58:10Z")
I second the Molly Ringwald nomination ---
**Author:** ![blasphmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@blasphmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blasphmer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/68 "2003-11-19T04:58:22Z")
Britney Spears in _Crossroads_ the extended DVD cut spoiler Ha Ha, just joking…So how many of you guys bought the DVD today? ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/69 "2003-11-19T05:31:40Z")
And if you want to see stills from the actual movies a great site is: (NSFW) [http://www.robbscelebs.co.uk/oops\_index.htm](http://www.robbscelebs.co.uk/oops_index.htm) no hard core and all mainstream - AND it is free - a very good site. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/70 "2003-11-19T05:37:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cliffy \* > \*\*Perhaps the better question is did she ever do a scene in which she _wasn’t_ nude. 😉 > > –Cliffy > > P.S. _Boogie Nights_ \*\* And **Magnolia** and **The Big Lebowski**. If her name’s on the box and it’s rated R, it’s practically a guarantee she’s going to be naked somewhere in there. ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/71 "2003-11-19T05:54:15Z")
Yeah, but only if the nudity is legitimate. Which it is often apparently. I mean, we are all of us naked for a couple of minutes at least every day, no? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/72 "2003-11-19T06:09:32Z")
I don’t think CNDB is entirely accurate. Looking at Tia Carreere in the movie Showdown in Little Tokyo I swear they used a body double. When she got nude and into the hot tub there was never a shot of her face and her chest at the same time. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/73 "2003-11-19T07:46:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Evil Captor \* > \*\*What surprised me about Jennifer Connelly in Requiem for a Dream was her nude lesbian double dildo scene. I had to run it in slo-mo to see what was going on, but there did appear to be a greasy dildo between her butt and the other woman’s. > > She shoulda won the Oscar for that scene. Not for anything she did, just having the nerve to do it. \*\* I dunno about an Oscar, but I definitely agree on the amount of nerve it took to agree to do that scene. I didn’t do the slo-mo thing, the old guy chanting “Ass to ass” creeped me out too much. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/74 "2003-11-19T08:30:11Z")
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/75 "2003-11-19T08:36:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wolf\_meister \* > \*\*And if you want to see stills from the actual movies a great site is[…] > no hard core and all mainstream - AND it is free - a very good site. \*\* NO! **Wolf,** you _FOOL!_ The site will be “slashdotted” within _hours_…and if they get _too much_ traffic, they’ll start CHARGING PEOPLE to see the precious, precious nudity! You’ve doomed us all, ya’ hear? DOOMED! _DOOOOOooomed…!_ [size=]Doomed![/sized] ---
**Author:** ![Rainbowthief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@Rainbowthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rainbowthief)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/76 "2003-11-19T09:00:36Z")
Julie Delpy in **American Werewolf in Paris** because I’d never seen her nude in any of her European movies, so I was stunned to see her bare breasts in such a lightweight flick. Gwynneth Paltrow in **Shakespeare in Love**. Not at all an actress I expected to see topless, though it was tasteful and seemed natural in the scene. Pernilla August in **Fanny and Alexander** was surprising because she was another actress I never expected to see nude. Moira Kelly in **Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me** because she looks like such a goody-goody girl, even if it was a David Lynch movie. Reese Witherspoon in that movie with Paul Newman? I forgot the title. Katie Holmes in **The Gift** BTW, not that I get off on seeing Hollywood actresses nude (there’s hotter stuff elsewhere), but does anyone else find it _really_ annoying when an actress covers herself from her lover with a sheet after a sex scene? WTF? They just had wild monkey sex and now she’s too modest to let him see her naked again? If the actress won’t do nudity, at least use clever camera angles to conceal her private areas, but don’t insult the audience with that sheet over the body crap. Actresses who are **ALWAYS** naked: Jamie Lee Curtis Kate Winslet Virginia Madsen (thank God!) Sherilyn Fenn ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/77 "2003-11-19T11:27:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rainbowthief \* > \*\*Reese Witherspoon in that movie with Paul Newman? I forgot the title. > \*\* Would that be **Twilight**? I can’t remember her being naked in it, but I also can’t think of another one in which they both appeared. Speaking of surprise nudity, I’ll nominate Julie Warner from **Doc Hollywood**. It’s not that she doesn’t have the body (or didn’t), but it was a very memorable scene that did kind of surprise me. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/78 "2003-11-19T11:52:16Z")
Elle Macpherson - _Sirens_ (in fact I don’t remember her wearing anything at all in the movie). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/79 "2003-11-19T11:57:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > \*\*What the hell is that all about? You don’t drop a bomb like “Maura Tierney did a nude scene” and then just casually say “I forget which film.” Which film, dammit? **For the love of God** , _ **which film?!?** _ \*\* **Doc Hollywood** , with Michael J. Fox. Her first scene in the movie has her emerging naked from a lake - viewed from the front. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/80 "2003-11-19T12:37:46Z")
Yeah, Reese Witherspoon let it (them?) all hang out in TWILIGHT. She was just a nameless babe at that point, with a few eye-candy moments in a film mostly about old people getting older by the minute. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876.md?page=5)