# Your "instant boner" actors/actresses in character **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324 "2013-07-01T06:59:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/181 "2013-07-06T07:10:15Z")
[Michele Carey](http://www.movpins.com/dHQwMDYxNjE5/el-dorado-(1966)/still-2888346368) in _El Dorado_. Beautiful cowgirl with a rifle and crazy hair. She’s the only person in that film to successfully shoot John Wayne, out of many who try. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/182 "2013-07-06T07:19:29Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > This list begins and ends with Gina Gershon. She is simply smokin’ I agree. She has aged REALLY well, and it pains me that she will only continue to age without being seen as often as she should be. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/183 "2013-07-06T09:03:27Z")
Thanks to all who have posted - an enjoyable thread. Is it worth making a distinction between two types of wonderful? Those who give you a boner (e.g. [Salma Hayek](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYxxgvA8rlM), [Monica Belluci](http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A7x9QXkV3NdRCmgAaahLBQx.?p=monica%20belluci%20matrix%20pic&fr2=sb-top&fr=yfp-t-702&rd=r1) ) and those who utterly charm you (e.g. [Kayleigh )](http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A7x9QXkV3NdRCmgAaahLBQx.;_ylc=X1MDMjExNDcxNzAwMwRfcgMyBGFvA2FvBGNzcmNwdmlkA2Y2X0ZKRmY0Y0FnUENESGFVWjRmb0FSdGJaYklXbEhYM0pvQURnMXQEZnIDeWZwLXQtNzAyBGZyMgNzYnRuBG5fZ3BzAzEEb3JpZ2luA3NycARwcXN0cgNrYXlsZWlnaCBmaXJlZmx5BHF1ZXJ5A2theWxlaWdoIGZpcmVmbHkEc2FvAzE-?p=kayleigh%20firefly&fr2=sb-top&fr=yfp-t-702&rd=r1&pqstr=kayleigh%20firefly2). ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/184 "2013-07-06T12:59:42Z")
> [@Rudiger\_Simpson](#): > > Elisabeth Shue in Palmetto. One scene in particular… Ah yes! I was coming here to post that! I had quite the crush on her in my younger days - The Karate Kid is where I discovered her and it’s been lustful bliss ever since. She’s currently on CSI and is aging wonderfully, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/185 "2013-07-06T14:12:35Z")
Oh, and for specific roles where I found an actress hot: I’ve seen Mira Furlan in a number of things, including nude shots, and, well, she’s nice and all, but in none of her other roles is she anywhere near as hot as she is as Ambassador Delenn. Preferably post-Chrysalis, of course, but even pre, she was still very good-looking. ---
**Author:** ![catnoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@catnoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catnoe)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/186 "2013-07-06T18:51:03Z")
Antonio Banderas - El Mariachi in Desperado, Nestor in The Mambo Kings, in anything. Roy Dupuis - Michael in La Femme Nikita, Yves in Being at Home with Claude k.d. lang - Constant Craving video… I think it’s her androgyny that does it for me. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/187 "2013-07-06T20:35:59Z")
Caterina Murino as Tania Moretti in “Zen” (shortlived series about an Italian detective) ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/188 "2013-07-06T22:22:26Z")
A recent one - Carey Mulligan in The Great Gatsby. She’s always been cute, but she is astonishingly sexy here. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/189 "2013-07-06T23:25:42Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > I knew I forgot some! > > Idris Elba as _Luther_. > Ben Affleck, although handsome, doesn’t normally do it for me but he was pretty hot in _The Town_. > > Back in the day Leonardo DiCaprio completely made me swoony as Romeo but watching it now I feel squicky because even though in reality he’s actually older than I am he looks so YOUNG in it that I feel dirrrrty just looking at him. He was 21 when he made it but he looks about 15. I was impressed by DiCaprio in _What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?_, but his subsequent career struck me as unremarkable—through his big successes in _Romeo and Juliet_ and _Titanic_. But a few weeks ago, when we saw _Gatsby_ I was instantly struck as soon as DiCaprio appeared on screen. I turned to my wife and said—“When did Leonardo DiCaprio become so handsome?” I am a straight man and I think I have a crush on him now. ---
**Author:** ![Rowanchilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rowanchilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rowanchilde)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/190 "2013-07-06T23:34:06Z")
Tim Curry as Dr. Frankenfurter Running mascara, ripped fishnets and a pearl necklace ~sigh~ ---
**Author:** ![stoplight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stoplight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stoplight)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/191 "2013-07-06T23:49:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Much more enticing in _Pride & Prejudice_, I think (see post 142), although she’s smokin’ in the first _Pirates of the Caribbean_ movie, too: > > [http://64.169.188.42/Reallybadeggs/Costume/Elizabeth5.jpg](http://64.169.188.42/Reallybadeggs/Costume/Elizabeth5.jpg) > [http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7700000/Elizabeth-Swann-elizabeth-swann-7790576-800-513.jpg](http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7700000/Elizabeth-Swann-elizabeth-swann-7790576-800-513.jpg) > [http://static.tumblr.com/cinsdc5/oc8lnzeku/elizabeth\_bed.jpg](http://static.tumblr.com/cinsdc5/oc8lnzeku/elizabeth_bed.jpg) She is !!! but what got me was the edge they put on her King Arthur, she wreaks of both warrior and temptress…an uncompromising beautifully honed edge. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/192 "2013-07-07T00:02:54Z")
When Donna Reed says “Welcome home Mr. Bailey” in “It’s a Wonderful Life”. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/193 "2013-07-07T00:03:47Z")
No-one mentions Halle Berry in _Race the Sun_? I bought a copy of that movie because of her. [sub]And the fact that much of it takes place in Australia.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/194 "2013-07-07T00:07:29Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > The instant boner girl that immediately comes to mind, though, is Brooklyn Decker coming out of the water in the ads for “Just Go With It.” > > [http://moviecarpet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/just-go-with-it-574x431.jpg](http://moviecarpet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/just-go-with-it-574x431.jpg) > > Strangely, although boobs are my favorite body part by far, it’s her hips that make me want to have her children. Holy Hannah. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/195 "2013-07-07T00:26:55Z")
For me it starts and ends with Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper from Torchwood. I fell hard for her, in all her gap-toothed Welsh glory. Runner-up: Eve Myles as Merill in Dragon Age 2, in her stammering, flakey glory. Just give me Eve Myles…on a plate. ---
**Author:** ![pete66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8c91f0/32.png) [@pete66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pete66)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/196 "2013-07-07T00:57:36Z")
Melanie Griffith in Cherry 2000 taught me how much i really liked red heads [Melanie Griffith Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/melanie_griffith/pictures/) A very close second place would be Michelle Rodriguez as the pilot in Avatar [http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Michelle-Rodriguez-468x705.jpg](http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Michelle-Rodriguez-468x705.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/197 "2013-07-07T01:00:20Z")
[Rosario Dawson](http://rollingout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/paid-Rosario-Dawson-Vital-Statistics.jpg) in general. And, most recently, [Rosario Dawson](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/3/28/1364495522889/Rosario-Dawson-010.jpg) in [Trance](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1924429/combined). ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/198 "2013-07-07T01:07:58Z")
> [@svd678](#): > > Alexandra Tydings as Aphrodite in “Xena: Warrior Princess” [Oh, yeah](http://www.fempop.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Xena-Warrior-Princess-2x16-For-Him-The-Bell-Tolls.avi.Still006.jpg), she was [blazing hot](http://www.yourprops.com/movieprops/original/yp_4fd59713de42f5.88485602/Xena-Warrior-Princess-Screen-Used-Aphrodite-Statues-5.jpg). Whenever she was [featured in an episode](http://images.wikia.com/hercxena/images/archive/f/f9/20091207204823!Aphrodite.jpg) I got really… excited. From the same show and not as curvy as Aphrodite but still stunningly beautiful was [Hudson Leick](http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4069/4355700134_1cf5941f90_z.jpg?zz=1) as the [villainess Callisto](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxav1uZ3Me1qb1ylpo1_500.jpg). And, of course, [Lucy Lawless as Xena herself](http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31800000/Xena-Warrior-Princess-female-ass-kickers-31863415-979-1200.jpg) induced many a trouser tent back in the day. Basically, I got blue balls watching that show. :(☹ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/199 "2013-07-07T02:00:27Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I’ve always seen Rosario Dawson as nothing less than sex on two feet, but yes that scene is fantastic. You just can’t wait for Dante to grab her. Not playing a character but she look pretty great [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l9ZLmPs8ss) also. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/200 "2013-07-07T02:28:14Z")
Wait, nobody’s mentioned [Gabrielle](http://i52.servimg.com/u/f52/12/32/00/31/ausxip10.jpg) from _Xena: Warrior Princess_ yet? She’s mesmerising! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324.md?page=11)