You already know two actors who actually go for it? Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. So when a scene in Martin Scorsese‘s newest, Killers of the Flower Moon, known as for De Niro to spank DiCaprio, the Raging Bull star wasn’t going to carry again — so DiCaprio, properly, wore a butt pad to soak up all that uncooked thespian vitality.
Come awards season, that butt pad could very nicely get some Oscar buzz. In the event that they gave Oscars to butt pads. However contemplating how a lot work these fake fannies have put in over time, why should not they?
Beneath, a cheeky, transient(-filling) historical past of the toughest working butt pads in cinema as we speak.
Keisters of the Full Moon
Apple Unique Movies Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
In Killers of the Flower Moon, Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio) botches an assassination plot main his uncle William King Hale (De Niro) to self-discipline him the old school means: whacking him on the behind with a wood paddle.
“There was some padding on his butt. However you can inform De Niro was actually hitting him,” Killers cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto told Insider of the notorious scene. “I do bear in mind doing them fairly a number of occasions and considering, ‘Oh, that should harm.'” Hey, DiCaprio fought a bear and lost, so he might take some (admittedly heavy and maybe vengeful) spanking from a nationwide treasure.
BadunkaVision
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“Do you need to discuss your butt?” Elizabeth Olsen asks Paul Bettany in a documentary on the making of their megahit WandaVision. “Yeah, I did need to discuss my butt,” Bettany says. And why would not he, it is a murals. Actually. Imaginative and prescient’s android rump was lovingly sculpted by the prop division.
Bettany praised his faux butt, saying that it “makes me stand correctly” and in addition makes him need to shake his artificial heinie. Bettany went on to say that Imaginative and prescient’s butt is “a perfect android ass” and is healthier than each Captains America, Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie. A wild assertion, however there isn’t any comparability. These pert patriotic posteriors are all-natural, made in the usA., child.
America’s Ass?
Walt Disney Studios Movement Footage/Marvel Studios/Everett Chris Evans in ‘Avengers: Endgame’
However are they, although? Captain America could have America’s ass, even by his personal admission in Avengers: Endgame:
However a supply confirmed to EW that the outdated buns and stripes was truly padded. Which in some way solely makes Cap’s may even extra of America’s Ass. The remainder of Chris Evans, nonetheless, was not padded. And America thanks him for that.
Spider-Man: No Faux Butts?
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Tom Holland could also be a world film star and courting Zendaya and what not, however on the finish of the day he is only a messy bro who loves drama. Which is why he dropped this butt bomb on Late Evening With Seth Meyers.
“I will provide you with a spoiler, and I am not going to let you know who, however considered one of us has a faux ass of their swimsuit,” he mentioned, referencing his fellow Spider-Males, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield in 2021’s No Way Home. “I bear in mind being on set like, ‘Wow! Oh, grasp on a minute, nah, that is not actual.”
Garfield later waded into the caboose dialog, telling Meyers that he was “totally unmodified.” Utilizing some primary math…carry the one…that leaves Maguire because the faux ass in query. Our Spidey Senses, nonetheless, stay tingled.
Ass Military Man
A24/Everett Daniel Radcliffe in ‘Swiss Military Man’
As everybody must be made conscious, Daniel Radcliffe is keeping it real tight. However one of many weirdest entries in Radcliffe’s already very bizarre post-Harry Potter filmography, 2016’s Swiss Military Man, required a mold made of his wizardly behind. Why, you ask?
Nicely, Radcliffe performs a corpse whose lifeless physique offers the technique of survival for a person stranded on a desert island (Paul Dano). And one of many corpse’s many makes use of was a farting butt that acted as one thing like a jet ski. Therefore, the Heinie Potter. However Radcliffe did not truly put on it. No, each a fart and a star have been born in that prosthetic booty.
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Sony Footage Classics/Everett Penélope Cruz in ‘Volver’
Legend has it, Bette Davis named the Academy Award statuette after her husband on the time, Harmon Oscar Nelson, as a result of, like her Oscar, the trophy had no butt. Which may be only a legend, however however Penélope Cruz acted her faux butt off in longtime collaborator Pedro Almodóvar‘s Volver to safe a Greatest Actress Oscar nomination.
In keeping with Almodóvar, Cruz’s doctored derriere was essential to offer his star the look of a ’50s Italian cinema heroine. “These are essential selections to make,” the Ache and Glory director said, “as a result of after getting the bodily half, you possibly can work on the non secular half.”
Backside Gun
United Artists/Everett in ‘Valkyrie’
Tom Cruise is insanely match for a 60-year-old man, or anybody, actually. However in a selected scene in 2008’s in any other case extremely forgettable Valkyrie, Cruise is packing some critical gluteal glory, which almost a decade later led the web to take a position that he was partaking in some dangerous butt-ness.
Cruise, nonetheless, denied the Valkyrie fakery, stating for the file that he does his personal “mooning.” Contemplating the person likes to do his personal stunt work, that tracks. However c’mon, take a look at that factor. It is a Behind: Unattainable and you realize it.
The Satan Wears Padding
Everett Assortment Anne Hathaway reveals her favourite ‘Satan Wears Prada’ outfit.
Are you carrying… Annie Hathaway‘s butt pads from The Devil Wears Prada? Yeah. I’m.
That’s, in the event that they’re nonetheless not framed within the Oscar-winner’s dwelling. Hathaway misplaced a bunch of weight to painting schlubby critical journalist turned high-fashion girl on the go! Andy Sachs, however for her pre-makeover look, she required somewhat film magic.
“I had a butt pad,” Hathaway told Access Hollywood, “and I took it on the finish of the movie and I’ve had it framed with somewhat plaque beneath it that claims, ‘Andy’s Ass.'” Groundbreaking.
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