# So, what actors/actresses DON'T have perfect asses? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755 "2003-03-03T15:06:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/1 "2003-03-03T15:06:40Z")
There’s a lot of ass in movies. Sex scenes, shower scenes, mooning scenes, running through the woods scenes, just walking around neked scenes, etc. My question is, you hardly EVER see someone without a perfect ass. Women in particularly. They’re always round and smooth and not a single blemish on them (unless of course, the story calls for a big fat, pimple ridden, hairy ass, but how often does that happen). So, I’m curious. What actors out there have a rather sub par pair of buttox? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/2 "2003-03-03T15:29:30Z")
What makes you think that you’re seeing the actor/actresses’ real ass? They use body doubles for a reason. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/3 "2003-03-03T15:42:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > **(unless of course, the story calls for a big fat, pimple ridden, hairy ass…)** HEYYYYY! You’ve read my screenplay! ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/4 "2003-03-03T15:45:28Z")
Dennis Franz, on NYPD Blue, bared his ass, as did the actress who was playing his love interest at the time. Neither one of them was attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/5 "2003-03-03T16:39:09Z")
The guy who played Farve in _Super Troopers_\*. [shudder] ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/6 "2003-03-03T17:29:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > \*\*Dennis Franz, on NYPD Blue, bared his ass, as did the actress who was playing his love interest at the time. Neither one of them was attractive. \*\* For that matter, when David Caruso did his obligatory shower scene in the first season, I don’t remember being very impressed. Bony and pasty, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/7 "2003-03-03T18:02:14Z")
Michael Douglas in FATAL ATTRACTION. Flattest ass I ever saw on the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/8 "2003-03-03T18:07:15Z")
I believe the butt shot (?) of Jeanne Triplehorn in _Water World_ was really a body double. Kind of surprising since Triplehorn was in _Basic Instinct_ and all. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/9 "2003-03-03T19:51:57Z")
I remember reading a quote from her during production, saying how fun it was to pick out her “dream butt”. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dignan \* > \*\*I believe the butt shot (?) of Jeanne Triplehorn in _Water World_ was really a body double. Kind of surprising since Triplehorn was in _Basic Instinct_ and all. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/10 "2003-03-03T22:44:48Z")
Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman = Butt/Body Double ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/11 "2003-03-03T23:12:33Z")
Lynda Carter, God bless her, has (well, okay, _had_ – I have no idea what it looks like today) an incredibly flat posterior, especially given how curvaceous the rest of her is/was. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/12 "2003-03-04T00:29:28Z")
Goldie Hawn. Check her’s out in _Captain Ron_. Olivia Newton-John doesn’t have much of an ass, but she shakes it quite well in _Xanadu_ in the montage scene near the end after she sings the title song. She’s wearing a tiger print mini skirt. [drool] ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/13 "2003-03-04T04:54:02Z")
Most of those actresses have not nearly an ass to speak of. Bah. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/14 "2003-03-04T05:56:44Z")
Will Farrel did a skit on SNL in which he wore a USA flag-motif thong/speedo thing. His butt was a cellulitey horror. (But maybe it was purposely made up to look that way. Dunno.) If you watch the end of “Alien,” you’ll see that Sigorney Weaver has a very flat butt. ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/15 "2003-03-04T07:15:16Z")
Howard Stern on the 1994 MTV awards show! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/16 "2003-03-04T12:08:01Z")
Gary Burgoff showed his in a brief flash scene in M_A_S_H_. Not bad. ---
**Author:** ![GoldenGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@GoldenGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoldenGael)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/17 "2003-03-04T15:18:16Z")
Laura San Giacomo. Her general appearance, from the front, is very attractive, even though she is nowhere near being a classic beauty. I like the face – it looks human. However, when seen from the side, or (to a lesser extent) from the rear, her rump is almost non-existent. I have noticed this many times before in my life-long studies on this topic. Well-endowed busts are often coupled with lackluster or negligible rumps. The previously-mentioned Linda Carter is a fine example. This is very disappointing to me, since I believe a fine female ass is one of those things that is to be gloried in; indeed, it may be what evolution is all about. Maybe the universe **doesn’t** have a plan, after all. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/18 "2003-03-04T15:26:57Z")
Gwyneth Paltrow is a Grade-A star, and she has a terrible body. Flabby and droopy all over. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/19 "2003-03-04T15:46:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GoldenGael \* > **I have noticed this many times before in my life-long studies on this topic. Well-endowed busts are often coupled with lackluster or negligible rumps. The previously-mentioned Linda Carter is a fine example. This is very disappointing to me, since I believe a fine female ass is one of those things that is to be gloried in; indeed, it may be what evolution is all about.** Truer words were never spoken my friend! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755/20 "2003-03-04T15:49:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > Gwyneth Paltrow is a Grade-A star, and she has a terrible body. Flabby and droopy all over. You’ve never shared an elevator with Tony Robbins, have you? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-actors-actresses-dont-have-perfect-asses/158755.md?page=2)