11 Actors Who Fooled Us All By Wearing Fake Boobs, Penises, Nipples, And More In Movies And On TV

1.Margaret Qualley wore prosthetic boobs in The Substance. Director Coralie Fargeat wanted Margaret's character to look "'80s inspired, with butt and boobs, think Jessica Rabbit." Speaking about the boobs, Margaret even told The Sunday Times, “Unfortunately, there is no magic boob potion, so we had to glue those on. Coralie found an incredible prosthetic team to endow me with the rack of a lifetime, just not my lifetime.”

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2.Jon Hamm wore fake nipples in Season 5 of Fargo. His character has pierced nipples, so they used real piercings on prosthetic nipples and applied them to Jon's chest. During an interview with Jimmy Fallon, he explained exactly how the prosthetics were applied; he said, "They have to paint some latex on your nipples, and then they pull it off, and then they put a little fake nipple and put a ring through it. It’s the magic of movies. You, too, can have fake nipples made."

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3.Taylor Zakhar Perez wore a prosthetic penis for Minx. He also told Entertainment Weekly that he's "all for" nudity when it makes sense for the scene. "If the project and the scenes call for it, why not?" he said. "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."

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4.Niecy Nash wore a prosthetic butt on Reno 911! Miami, and it was actually her idea. "I went to so many booty fittings, you don't understand," she told Conan O'Brien. "They couldn't get it right because they were building it straight back. So, I went to my girlfriend I brought her up there — who had, you know, the natural slamma jamma — and I'm like, 'See? You gotta start from the hips and wrap it around.'"

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She said that she chose to wear a prosthetic because she never saw women on TV that looked like women in her family.

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5.Jonathan Bailey wore a fake penis in Fellow Travelers, and he shared how he chose which prosthetic to use. He told Seth Meyers, "When we started, obviously, you wear a protective layer, obviously, to protect yourself and so it’s not awkward. But, for the nature of the show, you want to choose something that maybe reflects what’s actually going on."

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"They’ve all got their different personalities," he said of the penis props. "When you’re approaching character you think emotionally, cerebrally, and then you have to really make a big choice."

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6.Theo James wore a prosthetic penis in Season 2 of The White Lotus. During discussions with the show's makeup head, Rebecca Hickey, he felt the prop "needs to be 'Regular Joe.'" "I just wanted it not to be distracting," he said to Jimmy Fallon. "Because the scene, you know, it’s not about the pee pee, it’s about power play and sex."

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Once he saw the size of it he laughed at how big it seemed. "It’s like she stole it off a donkey in the field!" he joked. "The thing is ginormous."

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7.Penélope Cruz wore a prosthetic butt for the movie Volver and said she got so attached to it she didn't want to take it off. "At the end of the shoot, I was blocked. I could not leave the set. I didn't want to take my false ass off," she said at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

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8.Eric Dane wore a prosthetic penis during Euphoria and he even got to choose what it looked like. "I had absolute control over the penis. Because it was supposed to be mine," he told Men’s Health. "I approved it. I said, 'This looks like a nice penis. Let’s use this one.'"

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9.Lily James wore a bunch of prosthetics to transform into Pamela Anderson for the series Pam & Tommy, including a fake chest. "The breast piece was amazing," she told Entertainment Weekly. "You would never, never know it wasn't me. It was shocking." She added that it took long to put on and made her very warm. She also said, "It would be boiling hot — I got really sweaty and my boobs were coming off."

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10.Sarah Shahi wore prosthetic boobs for the Netflix series Sex/Life. On Instagram, she shared that she wore the prosthetics for any scene where her character was breastfeeding and that they took 3-4 hours to put on.

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11.Finally, Matthew Rhys wore a fake penis in the series Girls, and he was offered the choice between a few different prosthetics, but he decided to let the director and creative team choose. "I said, 'That’s fine, thank you. That’s the one I’ll use.' It wasn’t the one used by Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights," he joked. "No. Clearly not. That one is far larger!"

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