Committing to the role. Over the years, actors have filmed nude scenes and decided to wear body prosthetics instead of completely exposing themselves on screen.
Eric Dane, who plays Cal Jacobs on Euphoria, previously explained what goes into working on such a vulnerable part of the project.
“Those scenes are very difficult to shoot. It helps to have one voice in your ear. One voice that you can express your feelings to, and somebody that is an advocate for the actors,” the Grey’s Anatomy alum explained to Entertainment Weekly in June 2019. “It just simplifies a lot of things and makes for a safe and comfortable environment while shooting something that is fairly uncomfortable to shoot. And certainly, the stuff that we did in the pilot is no exception. It’s a pretty intense scene.”
During the pilot episode, Cal is seen meeting up with an underage Jules (Hunter Schafer) after talking on a dating app. Even though Jacobs wasn’t opposed to nudity, he explained that it was a group decision for him to wear a prosthetic penis instead.
“I’m willing to do anything that’s critical to the story and crucial to creating a very real and truthful feel to how the story is gonna go down,” he added at the time. “I just don’t see how you shoot a scene like that without showing nudity. And, you know, it kind of matches the stakes. The stakes are so high, you can’t hold anything back, really.”
During the second season of the HBO Max series, Cal exposed himself again after revealing his sexuality to his family. He ended up urinating all over his foyer — another scene that Dane wore a prosthetic for.
“It’s very freeing to do a monologue with your penis out,” he joked to Men’s Health in January 2022 about the shocking moment. “I hope everybody becomes a bit more comfortable with their appendages after this show.”
Meanwhile, Dane’s TV son Jacob Elordi also weighed in having to strip down for some very graphic Euphoria sex scenes.
“Every scene is like, ‘He sleeps with this person. He does this with this person naked,’” the Kissing Booth star said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in March 2022. “On Euphoria, it comes with the territory of the character. He’s this ultra-masculine, macho jock. Those guys, I think, tend to go around pretty shirtless, so it’s sort of OK.”
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Committing to the role. Over the years, actors have filmed nude scenes and decided to wear body prosthetics instead of completely exposing themselves on screen.
Eric Dane, who plays Cal Jacobs on Euphoria, previously explained what goes into working on such a vulnerable part of the project.
“Those scenes are very difficult to shoot. It helps to have one voice in your ear. One voice that you can express your feelings to, and somebody that is an advocate for the actors,” the Grey’s Anatomy alum explained to Entertainment Weekly in June 2019. “It just simplifies a lot of things and makes for a safe and comfortable environment while shooting something that is fairly uncomfortable to shoot. And certainly, the stuff that we did in the pilot is no exception. It’s a pretty intense scene.”
During the pilot episode, Cal is seen meeting up with an underage Jules (Hunter Schafer) after talking on a dating app. Even though Jacobs wasn’t opposed to nudity, he explained that it was a group decision for him to wear a prosthetic penis instead.
“I’m willing to do anything that’s critical to the story and crucial to creating a very real and truthful feel to how the story is gonna go down,” he added at the time. “I just don’t see how you shoot a scene like that without showing nudity. And, you know, it kind of matches the stakes. The stakes are so high, you can’t hold anything back, really.”
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During the second season of the HBO Max series, Cal exposed himself again after revealing his sexuality to his family. He ended up urinating all over his foyer — another scene that Dane wore a prosthetic for.
“It’s very freeing to do a monologue with your penis out,” he joked to Men’s Health in January 2022 about the shocking moment. “I hope everybody becomes a bit more comfortable with their appendages after this show.”
Meanwhile, Dane’s TV son Jacob Elordi also weighed in having to strip down for some very graphic Euphoria sex scenes.
“Every scene is like, ‘He sleeps with this person. He does this with this person naked,'” the Kissing Booth star said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in March 2022. “On Euphoria, it comes with the territory of the character. He’s this ultra-masculine, macho jock. Those guys, I think, tend to go around pretty shirtless, so it’s sort of OK.”
Scroll to see what other actors have worked with prosthetic body parts while filming:
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Theo James (‘The White Lotus’)
The England native shot a full-frontal scene in the season 2 premiere of The White Lotus, in which his character Cameron dropped trou in front of his wife’s friend Harper (Aubrey Plaza).
“The truth of it was you go into these things and you have a conversation with the director and the producers, and they go, ‘OK, for this, we’re going to use a prosthetic, we’re gonna use something,’” James admitted during a December 2022 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “It’s a pee-pee prosthetic. … [I told the makeup artist that] I wanted it not to be distracting. He needs to be [a] regular Joe because the scene’s not about the pee-pee, it’s about power play in sex [and] whether he did it deliberately or whether it was an accident.”
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Chace Crawford (‘The Boys’)
In June 2022, the Gossip Girl alum revealed that he was wearing a prosthetic penis for the infamous poster that was later adjusted because of his visible bulge. “[Showrunner Eric] Kripke was like, ‘We get no notes from Amazon, but the first one we got was that can’t f–king happen, we’ve got to take that out,'” Crawford recalled during an interview with Daily Mail Australia, referring to a 2019 promotional photo of his character The Deep. “And we had to edit it out.”
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Taylor Zakhar Perez (‘Minx’)
In HBO Max’s Minx, Perez plays firefighter-turned-model Shane, who is the centerfold for an erotic women’s magazine. The actor had no problem wearing a prosthetic for the part.
“I’m all for it. If the project and the scenes call for it, why not?” Perez told Entertainment Weekly in February 2022. “But I think just to throw a bare-chested woman or ass-out guy into the scene without it making sense, then it’s gratuitous and takes away from the quality of the content.”
The Red, White and Royal Blue actor added, “But I think when my mom sees it is when I will be a little freaked out.”
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Lily James and Sebastian Stan (‘Pam and Tommy’)
While taking on the roles of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee on the Hulu series, James and Stan were both dressed in prosthetic private parts. The Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again actress said she spent four hours in makeup to prepare for filming.
Stan’s character has an entire conversation with his penis, voiced by Jason Mantzoukas. The prosthetic was mechanical and required two puppeteers.
Costume designer Kameron Lennox noted that the Marvel actor also required prosthetics when his character walks around in a silk G-string, but the typical prosthetics created to be on camera didn’t look great in costume.
“His prosthetic was so big that once you put it in the G-string it looks like he’s got serious health problems,” Lennox told Thrillist. A “garment penis” was made by special makeup effects designer Jason Collins and his company Autonomous FX for clothed scenes, and Lennox also used “packers” (a type of stuffing) for different scenes.
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Simon Rex (‘Red Rocket’)
Upon winning Best Male Lead at the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards for his role in Red Rocket — in which he played a former porn star — Rex couldn’t help but mention his prosthetic appendage from the film. “Thank you Film Independent, for recognizing my fake penis,” he joked during his acceptance speech at the March 2022 ceremony.
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Finn Wittrock (‘Ratched’)
The American Horror Story star previously discussed Ryan Murphy surprising him with a scene in Ratched — alongside Sarah Paulson — that required him to wear a prosthetic penis.
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Mark Wahlberg (‘Boogie Nights’)
Wahlberg, who played porn star Dirk in the 1997 film, wore a prosthetic penis for a nude scene.
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Adam Demos (‘Sex/Life’)
Demos and series creator Stacy Rukeyser have previously been vague when asked about his character’s iconic shower scene. In July 2021, Newsweek reported that a member of the prosthetics team confirmed the use of prosthesis in that moment.
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Eric Dane (‘Euphoria’)
For his role as Cal on HBO Max’s Euphoria, Dane revealed that he helped select his own prosthetic penis.
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Will Poulter (‘We’re the Millers’)
Poulter donned a prosthetic for a scene in We’re the Millers when his character was bit by a tarantula.
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Jonah Hill (‘The Wolf of Wall Street’)
Donnie’s awkward masturbation scene in The Wolf of Wall Street included Hill wearing a prosthetic penis.
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Asa Butterfield (‘Sex Education’)
Butterfield opted to wear a prosthetic for several scenes on Sex Education where his character Otis experiences sexual pleasure.
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Chris Hemsworth (‘Vacation’)
In Vacation, the Australia native’s nearly nude scene when walking in on Ed Helms and Christina Applegate‘s characters included both a body double and later an eight-inch prosthetic.
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John Cena (‘Trainwreck’)
While reflecting on his role in Trainwreck, Cena explained that he wore a stunt penis in a scene that required him to be almost completely naked.
