Timothée Chalamet in 'Call Me by Your Name' Source: Sony Pictures Classics

5% of Hollywood Nude Scenes Depict LGBTQ Characters. Which Actors Appear in Them?

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After watching more than 27 hours of nude scenes (it's a tough job, but somebody has to do it), an analysis by Bingo Sites reveals that only five percent of nude scenes are related to LGBTQ characters.

Some of Hollywood's biggest actors fall into the minority. Still, among male A-list actors, the majority (93.1%) of nudity in their filmographies is heterosexual. Only 6.9% of male nudity is related to LGBTQ roles and scenes.

Among female A-list actors, a tiny proportion (4%) of nudity on-screen relates to an LGBTQ narrative involving queer characters or same-sex love scenes.

The question everyone is asking – which actors have appeared in the most scenes nude as an LGBTQ character? The study defined LGBTQ nudity as consisting of "a male or female actor appearing nude (showing their 'buttocks,' 'breasts,' or 'genitals') in a scene either as an LGBTQ character or nude in a scene with an LGBTQ character.

Male
"Call Me By Your Name" star Timoth�e Chalamet tops Bingo Sites' nudity ranking of male actors. Of all nude scenes Timoth�e has appeared in, he has been an LGBTQ character in 66.7% of them. Here is the top-five ranking:

Actor – % of LGBTQ Scenes
Timoth�e Chalamet, 66.7%
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 50%
Guillermo Pfening, 50%
Steve Howey, 50%
Mark Ruffalo, 27.3%

Female
Actress – % of LGBTQ Scenes
Of all of Kate Mara's nude scenes across her filmography, she has been an LGBTQ in all of them!
Kate Mara,100%
Ellen Page, 50%
Stana Katic, 50%
Hilary Swank, 36.4%
Laia Costa, 16.76%

Bingo Sites analyzed the filmographies (sourced from IMDB) of 134 of 2020's top-trending actors, only considering actors who had appeared in three or movie films with a nude scene and had starred in at least one movie since the year 2000. Only actors who were 18 or older up until August 1, 2020, were considered. Nude scenes for male actors were counted from MrMan.com and for female actors from MrSkin.com.


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