UK and Irish actors and naked scenes.

[starkiller]

This is by no means a complete list. This is what I came up with off the top of my head and checking my dvds. Some I'm not 100% sure of, and I am quite sure I've missed a lot, but this is what I came up with.

Naveen Andrews (aka Sayid from 'Lost').
"Drowning on Dry Land" - back and front nudity, sex scenes.
"Karma Sutra" - back and front nudity, bathing scenes, fighting scenes, sex scenes.
"Bombay Boys" - back and front nudity, gay and heterosexual sex scenes.

Christian Bale
"American Psycho" - back and full frontal nudity, multiple sex scenes, naked violence.
"The Machinist" - back and frontal nudity
"Equilibrium" - back and frontal nudity, sex scenes
"Velvet Goldmine" - back and frontal nudity, masturbation scenes, gay sex scenes.
"Metroland" - back and frontal nudity, drug scenes, sex scenes

Sean Bean
"Stormy Monday" - back and full frontal nudity, sex scenes, bath scenes.
"Lady Chatterly's Lover" - back and full frontal nudity, sex scenes.
"A Woman's Guide to Adultery" - back nudity, sex scenes.
"Sharpe" - back and front nudity, bathing scenes, sex scenes.
"Extremely Dangerous" - back nudity, sex scenes
"Tell Me That You Love Me" - back and front nudity, sex scenes
"Clarissa" - back nudity, rape scene
"Caravaggio" - back and full frontal nudity, bath scenes, gay and heterosexual sex scenes.

Paul Bettany
"A Knight's Tale" - back and side nudity.
"Coming Home" - back nudity, sex scenes.
"The Heart of Me" - back and front nudity, sex scenes.
"Dead Babies" - back and front nudity, sex scenes.

Orlando Bloom
"Wilde" - back and frontal nudity, prostitution scenes, gay sex scenes.

Christian Coulson (teenage Tom Riddle! Omg!)
"Charles II: The Power and the Passion" - back and front nudity, sex scenes.

Jack Davenport
"This Life" - back nudity, shower scenes.
"Swingtown" - back and front nudity, sex scenes.

Christopher Eccleston (Omg, Doctor Who!)
"Elizabeth" - sex scene.
"Second Coming" - frontal nudity, shower scene, sex scene.
"Shallow Grave" - back nudity, shower scenes.
"I Am Dina" - back and side nudity, sex scenes.
"Jude" - back and frontal nudity, sex scenes.

Cary Elwes
"The Crush" - back nudity, shower scenes.

Colin Farrell
"Tigerland" - back and front nudity, shower scene, sex scenes.
"Hart's War" - back and side nudity, prison scene.
"Alexander" - back and front nudity, sex scenes.
"Miami Vice" - back and front nudity, sex scenes

Joseph Fiennes
"Killing Me Softly" - back and frontal nudity, sex scenes.
"Pretty/Handsome" - back and frontal nudity, transsexuality, sex scene

Ralph Fiennes
"Baby of Macon" (probably the worst Peter Greenaway film EVER) - back and full frontal nudity, sex scene, death scene.
"The End of the Affair" - back nudity, sex scenes.
"The English Patient" - bath scenes, back nudity, sex scenes.
"Red Dragon" - back nudity. (awesome tattoos).
"The Constant Gardener" - back and front nudity, sex scenes.
"Chromophobia" - back and front nudity, pederasty, sex scenes.
"Spider" - back and frontal nudity, shower scene, sex scenes, psychological scenes.
"The End of the Affair" - back and frontal nudity, sex scenes.
"Onegin" - sex scenes
"Sunshine" - full frontal nudity, torture nudity.
"Oscar and Lucinda" - back and front nudity, sex scenes.

Ioan Gruffud
"Horatio Hornblower" - back and frontal nudity, shower scenes, sex scenes, swimming.
"The Gathering" - back nudity, sex scenes
"Wilde" - gay sex scene

John Hannah
"Taggart" - back nudity, bath scenes, sex scenes.
"Harbor Beat" - sex scenes
"MacCallum" - back nudity
"Chip Circus" - back nudity, swimming scenes.

Jude Law
"Wilde" - back and full frontal nudity, gay sex scenes.
"The Talented Mr Ripley" - back nudity, shower scene, swimming scenes, gay sex scenes.
"Alfie" - back and side nudity, shower scenes, sex scenes.
"Cold Mountain" - back and front nudity, bathing scene, sex scene

James McAvoy
"Shameless" - back and full frontal nudity, sex scenes, mooning (flashing his bum).
"The Last King of Scotland" - back and full frontal nudity, sex scenes.

Ewan McGreggor
"Scarlet and Black" - back and full frontal nudity, climbing a hill (!), sex scenes.
"Velvet Goldmine" - back and full frontal nudity, singing on stage, gay love scenes.
"The Pillow Book" - back and full frontal nudity, shower scenes, death scene, body as a canvas covered in art, gay and heterosexual sex scenes.
"Young Adam" - back and full frontal nudity, sex scenes
"Eye of the Beholder" - back and frontal nudity, sex scenes.
"The Serpent's Kiss" - back and full frontal nudity, naked wandering through a garden.
"Long Way Around" - documentary film. Back nudity, shower scenes.

Hans Matheson
"Family Money" - sex scene
"Stella Does Tricks" - sex scene (checking)
"Dr Zhivago" - sex scenes
"Canone Inverso" - frontal nudity, bathing scene, sex scenes
"Comfortably Numb" - back and full frontal nudity, shower scene, sex scenes
"The Virgin Queen" - back nudity, bathing scenes
"Bathory" - back and frontal nudity, sex scenes
"I Am Dina" - back and frontal nudity, streaking (running naked)

Dominic Monaghan
"Hetty Wainthrop Investigates" - shower scenes

Cillian Murphy
"28 Days Later" - full frontal, hospital scenes, sex scenes, murder scenes.
"Watching the Detectives" - back and full frontal nudity, sex scenes.
"Breakfast on Pluto" - back and frontal nudity, transsexuality, sex scenes.
"On the Edge" - back and frontal nudity, drug scenes, sex scenes.

Liam Neeson
"Rob Roy" - back nudity, sex scenes
"High Spirits" - back nudity, shower scene.

Gary Oldman (omg it's Sirius Black!)
"Dead Fish" - back nudity, bathing scenes, sex scene
"Sin" - back and front nudity, rape scene
"The Scarlet Letter" - back and front nudity, bathing scenes, sex scenes.
"Prick Up Your Ears" - back nudity, gay sex scenes

Clive Owen
"Bent" - back and front nudity, shower scenes, Nazi prison camp scenes, gay sex scenes.
"Close My Eyes" - back and front nudity, incest sex scenes

Daniel Radcliffe (yes, ickle Harry Potter.)
"Equus" (theatre) - back and full frontal nudity, sex scenes, murder scenes.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
"Titus" - back and full frontal nudity, swimming, sex scenes, murder scenes.
"The Governness" - back and full frontal nudity, sex scenes.
"Velvet Goldmine" - back nudity, gay and heterosexual love scenes.
"The Magnificent Ambersons" - back nudity, shower scenes.
"Gormenghast" - back nudity
"The Tudors" - back and frontal nudity, sex scenes, bathing scenes
"The Loss of Sexual Innocence" - back and frontal nudity, sex scenes

Alan Rickman
"Dark Harbour" - back and front nudity, sex scenes.
"Close My Eyes" - back nudity.
"Rasputin" - back and front nudity, sex scenes, bathing scenes

Julian Sands
"Gothic" - back and full frontal nudity, drug scenes, sex scenes.
"A Room With A View" - back and full frontal nudity, swimming scenes.
"Romasanta" - back and frontal nudity, sex scenes.

Rufus Sewell
"Charles II: The Power and the Passion" - back and front nudity, sex scenes.

David Tennant (omg Doctor Who!)
"Blackpool" - back nudity, bath scenes, sex scenes.
"What the Butler Saw" (theatre) - full frontal nude scenes.
"Casanova" - back and front nudity, sex scenes

David Thewlis (Omg, Remus Lupin!)
"Basic Instinct 2" - back and side nudity, sex scene
"Divorcing Jack" - back nudity, sex scenes
"Dragonheart" - back nudity, bath scene

[Gg]

and that's a modest list -- I remember Paul Bettany in "Davinci Code" as well, for instance -- and again -- if you look at that list...

Christine Bales nude scene in "American Psycho" -- which was cut radically to avoid an NC-17 rating, really just hits you viscerally regarding the character. No other way to get that gut hitting understanding of who he is. AND yet in "The Machinist" OH my DEAR GOD -- to say that seeing this skeletal, emaciatied man, and with a healthy prostitute, and realize again on a gut level that this guy is SUFFERING. I mean come on -- they are important scenes, that were written with intention, acted with integrity and not just an uncomfortable part of the job, but a very important part of the expression. The would have rehearsed and talked about and read it over and over and spent weeks in editing. It's like Hans and Emma both mention of the rape scene -- you prepare and rehearse and discuss on then on the day you really have to be there in that moment and make it right. It's a disservice otherwise. I can't imagine the lighting set up alone for that scene in TESS -- that fine line between complete obscurity and just translucence.


And then another example -- Paul Bettany in "Davinci" as he pounds his flesh bloody and we see the damage he's inflicted on himself in that scene -- while in "Knight's Tale" his nudity is endearing and comic and makes us love Chaucer from moment one -- because we see his dirty a$$ all skinny and humble and that generousity is something we enjoy.

So I think making that list, Star, is a beautiful illustration of the intregity and artistic value of nudity in film -- look at the amazing company Hans keeps.

[jessyjellybean]

ohhhhhh the shame of my nations actors :Ponce when I was doing a goolge search for Marc Warrne the bit said Marc Warren naked,so I clicked on it,BIG MISTAKE,I found out 2 into 1 can go and of all the ironys Marc flashed his behind in a show about a week later

[Gg]

On the contrary! Look at that list of films - I do believe that deserves celebration!

[jessyjellybean]

I was just messing before :Pmy country makes some incredible out standing television,I dont belive anyone else in the world could make stuff like Line of beauty,Life on Mars,fools and horses,costume drammas or the afore mentioned This Life.I stll follow most of the cast of that now,Amita Dheri plays on the Bill,no matter what Ramon Tikaram crops up in hes always the baddie ;D

[starkiller]

Nov 22, 2008 23:48:28 GMT 8 Gg said:

and that's a modest list -- I remember Paul Bettany in "Davinci Code" as well, for instance -- and again -- if you look at that list...

Oh absolutely, it's by no means complete, hahaha. I had to check a few films on imdb to make sure, but mainly that's what's in my dvd rack or the vhs cupboard.

Christine Bales nude scene in "American Psycho" -- which was cut radically to avoid an NC-17 rating, really just hits you viscerally regarding the character. No other way to get that gut hitting understanding of who he is.

I have the NC17 dvd release of it - it's SO true to the book and one of the things I found so interesting about it was that it was the interpretation by a woman director. I think a lot of these really difficult subjects are tackled mainly by male directors so seeing a woman doing it makes it more interesting in a way. But that final scene when he's running about with the chainsaw and covered in blood, there is no way that scene is about eroticism - it's the true, stripped down, bare face of horror and the shattering of the ennui of his day to day life. So the nudity is symbolic as well as visceral. Stunning performance, he's such a versatile actor.

AND yet in "The Machinist" OH my DEAR GOD -- to say that seeing this skeletal, emaciatied man, and with a healthy prostitute, and realize again on a gut level that this guy is SUFFERING.

I know, god, he looks so pained, like every movement is an agony, and the naked form just emphasises that in ways that being clothed never would. I felt the same with the naked scene in 'Sunshine', when Ralph Fiennes' character was strung up by the nazis and then slowly frozen to death by them hosing ice cold water on him. It was the most horrific scene, and the most uncomfortable piece of cinema I've ever seen. I had nightmares about that for weeks.

I mean come on -- they are important scenes, that were written with intention, acted with integrity and not just an uncomfortable part of the job, but a very important part of the expression. The would have rehearsed and talked about and read it over and over and spent weeks in editing. It's like Hans and Emma both mention of the rape scene -- you prepare and rehearse and discuss on then on the day you really have to be there in that moment and make it right. It's a disservice otherwise. I can't imagine the lighting set up alone for that scene in TESS -- that fine line between complete obscurity and just translucence.

Absolutely. And sometimes, in order to emote the scene properly, the whole body is needed and clothing gets in the way, it does in fact obscure the emotion. As much as I loathe 'Baby of Macon', there's no denying that the sex scene followed by Ralph Fiennes being gored by a bull would in no way have worked if he'd been even partially clad. The symbolism of the goring as well as the fact he'd been tempted to have sex against his better judgement would have been watered down if there were clothes in the way. And god, Julia Ormond was so horrified, her whole body radiated it while he was being gored, it would not have had the power and the sheer horror if anything else was in that scene.

And then another example -- Paul Bettany in "Davinci" as he pounds his flesh bloody and we see the damage he's inflicted on himself in that scene -- while in "Knight's Tale" his nudity is endearing and comic and makes us love Chaucer from moment one -- because we see his dirty a$$ all skinny and humble and that generousity is something we enjoy.

I wasn't sure about 'DaVinci Code' b.c, can you believe it, I haven't seen it! It was on telly a little while ago and I just completely forgot to watch it! Oops!

So I think making that list, Star, is a beautiful illustration of the intregity and artistic value of nudity in film -- look at the amazing company Hans keeps.

Besides which, we're all born naked after all, and I personally think too much prudity is placed on the human body these days. After all, we have the internet, which is limitless, and there's good and bad with that to be sure, but with that sort of breakdown in boundaries of information, so that anything can be accessed, the desire by society lets say to keep the human body hidden or to not talk about sex is really ridiculous. No wonder so many people suffer from eating disorders or poor body image and self esteem when it's all hushed up and treated with shame and disgust!

[Nepenthe]

For David Thewlis, there's also nudity in Naked ... which, er ... sounds like a given, but I believe the title is metaphorical. Anyway, it's full frontal in partial silhouette.

I think there's nudity in Total Eclipse as well, but I haven't actually seen that.

Also, Christian Bale: "Equilibrium" - back and frontal nudity, sex scenes

When is that? I've seen the movie a couple of times, and I just cannot think of which scene it's in reference to.

And sex scenes in Onegin? Either my memory is worse than I thought (and it is bad) or the copy I have is severely edited. I know you said you weren't sure of some, but *wracks brain* ... I just can't think!