November 16th, 2007
11. Jennifer Connelly
Ironically enough, Jennifer Connelly has probably fueled more adolescent fantasies with her clothes on than off. There's precisely nothing to remember about the lame John Hughes comedy Career Opportunities besides Connelly riding on a coin-operated department-store horse, and her va-voom appearance in the squeaky-clean The Rocketeer owed more to her old-school movie-star glamour than anything remotely explicit. Aside from Dennis Hopper's 1990 neo-noir The Hot Spot, which featured Connelly in all her youthful splendor, the actress undercuts her most explicit scenes by couching them in the most depressing context imaginable. In Waking The Dead, a lovemaking session with Billy Crudup is tempered by the knowledge that her activist character has died in a politically motivated car bombing. And in Requiem For A Dream, her sexual humiliation is part of a montage of tortures visited upon the film's trio of desperate junkies. Choice cndb.com user comment: If you look past all that misery, one user notes, you can "still see her beautiful bush."
12. Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal's unconventional beauty and cool self-confidence has made her a thinking man's sex symbol, and while the indie crowd that reveres her would probably never admit it, her obvious comfort with her own nudity has had plenty to do with her appeal. Her full-frontal scenes in the S&M romance-comedy Secretary made her a breakout star, and the brief flash of nipple was one of the more joyous moments in the otherwise dreary Happy Endings. She's also adept at getting naked in uncomfortable situations, like her brutal interrogation scene in Strip Search, or pretty much any scene in the uniformly depressing Sherrybaby. Choice cndb.com user comment: "Early on in the film she is bent over while getting it from behind. Butt and breasts viewed. Later, when trying to get a job she removes her top and offers to suck the guy's d*** for that job. Hot stuff."
13. Ewan McGregor
Probably the most proudly nude mainstream male actor working today, Ewan McGregor hasn't let his leading-man success in action and romance films keep him from dropping trou in a handful of titillating arthouse flicks. From extended full-frontal shots and explicit sex in The Pillow Book, Young Adam, and Velvet Goldmine to casual dangling in Nightwatch and Trainspotting, McGregor's list of nude scenes is as long as his, um, arm. Though McGregor has said he's given up getting naked onscreen, the upcoming thriller The List—which finds him playing a bored accountant searching for excitement in a New York sex club—might prove too great a temptation for the nudity-prone actor. Choice cndb.com user comment: "This is a Ewan festival! His thick flaccid penis is on display in several scenes throughout the movie, including one where it visibly grows against the belly of his co-star as they are hugging."
14. Kate Winslet
When Hollywood needed an actress to get topless in a movie about the Marquis de Sade, Kate Winslet seemed an obvious choice—after all, Quills wasn't meant to be sexy, and if her exposed bosom wasn't even enough to get Titanic an R rating, clearly people weren't getting too excited. Perhaps she did herself a favor by flooding the market with nudity: Between 1996 and 2001, Winslet made eight movies and was naked in six of them, with everything from boob-revealing intimacy (Hideous Kinky) to full-on body shots (Holy Smoke) to explicit sex scenes (Jude, Iris). Her rep has never suffered, though, mostly because the movies she makes tend to be good—so after a five-year break from nakedness, she bared all once again in Little Children. Choice cndb.com user comment: "Do not expect a great exposure, though Kate's breasts are on good show."
15. Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei is a curious case: For years, she never appeared nude in movies, even calling in a body double for Slums Of Beverly Hills, which is ironic, given that her character's frank, unembarrassed sexuality was meant to contrast sharply with the shame-addled heroine. Tomei made a brief exception for the Charles Bukowski adaptation Factotum, but that was a dripping faucet compared to the floodgates of nudity she opened up for Sidney Lumet's new thriller Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. It's as if Tomei resolved, "Well, if one frame is enough to travel all over the Internet, what difference does 3,000 or so make?" Yet Tomei makes it count in other ways, too, playing a femme fatale whose indiscretions make her the lynchpin of a crime scheme gone wrong. Choice cndb.com user comment: She's got "BigWoody"'s vote for the best nude scene of 2007, which is almost as prestigious an honor as that Oscar she won for My Cousin Vinny.
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