Sure, it’s one thing to go nude on camera, with just a select few actors and crew watching, but it’s another to strip down in front of a packed audience multiple times a week - but some celebs have been brave enough to do it! These are the sexy stars who have gone bare on stage, some of whom also like to get naked on screen, and others who somehow still haven’t had their caboose captured on film. Yet!
Stanley Tucci Nude
Before becoming a big name thanks to some amazing performances and even more amazing cooking skills, Stanley starred opposite Edie Falco in a 2002 Broadway production of Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, a play that is known for opening with the title characters having sex naked in bed together. Tucci had previously teased fans with side tush in 1996’s Big Night, but filmgoers wouldn’t get to see that gyat until 2017’s Submission. Other men have gone bare playing Johnny, like how in 2019, folks got to see Michael Shannon nude on stage with Audra McDonald, Claire as day!
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Daniel Radcliffe Nude
After playing Harry Potter for so long, Dan wanted to separate himself from the bespectacled wizard, and what better way to do so than by going nude and blinding a bunch of (fake) horses in front of huge crowds? That’s what he did when he was cast in a 2006 production of Equus on Broadway, a full seven years before getting naked on screen in both What Ifand Kill Your Darlings. Film fans may have seen his booty twice in 2013, but only theatregoers got a look at his magic wand! The same can be said for Harry Hamlin, who performed in a production at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Though a heartthrob in the 80s, it's a shame Harry’s only shown his heinie in an episode of the series Shameless.
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Jesse Williams and Patrick J. Adams
Both of these non-nude dudes have actually gotten buck-naked together for live audiences as cast members in the 2022 Broadway revival of the gay baseball play Take Me Out. Before that, the only locker room Jesse had shown any skin in was in Station 19, while the closest the Suits star has gotten to nudity was when he rubbed one out in the shower in the season 2 premiere of Pillow Talk. When are they gonna really give us something to talk about?!
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Ian McKellen Nude
Some may think nudity is a young man’s game but Sir Ian proved that isn’t true in 2007 when he delivered full frontal during a production of King Lear. That was a good two and a half decades after he did the same on-screen in Priest of Love, but we’d love to see his (Shakes) spear at any age!
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John Lithgow Nude
The award-winning actor may have made his nude debut in 1989’s Traveling Man but he actually got naked for audiences way before that, in the 1973 Broadway production of The Changing Room, and nabbed a Tony for doing it. Bravo!
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Jude Law Nude
We wouldn’t say Jude Law is notorious for his discretion. He’s actually more famous for Indiscretions, like his fully nude bathtub scene in the same-named play of 1995. This was well before his other fully nude bathtub scene in The Talented Mr. Ripley. It seems he really likes to have people watching while he soaks his schlong.
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Neil Patrick Harris Nude
According to Variety, the musical theatre vet had a nude scene with his How I Met Your Mother costar Josh Radnor in a 2004 production of a play called The Paris Letter. Since then he seems to have gotten more and more comfortable bringing out that cake, which most recently saw the light of day in Uncoupled.
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Flea Nude
Nudity on stage isn’t just for theatre actors! The wild, one-named bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers likes to play in the buff for arenas filled with fans, just like he did during Woodstock ’99 (which is also the same year that Blink-182 went bare ass during the Billboard Music Awards). Bands in the 90s loved to give it away, give it away, give it away now!
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