Strippers

Topless showgirls. Exotic entertainers. Lap dancers. Pole dancers. Nudie club dancers. Call them what you will, just don’t call Mr Skin late to see celebrity strippers.

In Powder Blue, we finally get to see Jessica Biel nude. Why? Because in that film, Jessica Biel is a stripper. And in her naked strip-club performance—unlike chaste turns by Jessica Alba stripping in Sin City and Lindsay Lohan stripping in I Know Who Killed Me—Miss Biel peels to reveal the real deal. That’s really Jessica Biel nude. And Mr Skin’s got her.

Strippers figured as the subjects of some of the earliest motion pictures. With the relaxed censorship of the 1960s, burlesque queens could become movie stars, and film audiences everywhere didn’t have to travel city to city to see Bettie Page nude or Blaze Starr nude.

Many films contain scenes set in strip bars—such as Marisa Tomei peeling nude in The Wrestler—but in 1995, the ultimate celebrity nudity movie hit the floor: Showgirls, with Elizabeth Berkley and Gina Gershon stripping nude and many more professional peelers doing what they do best as had never been seen before on the screen.

Shortly thereafter, Striptease followed with Demi Moore nude, and there was an explosion of stripper B-movies such as Lapdancer and The Showgirl Murders.

Incredibly, Dancing at the Blue Iguana took aim at Showgirls’s celebrity-nudity-stripper-movie crown, and we all won, as it showcases Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, Charlotte Ayanna, Sandra Oh, Sheila Kelley, and Kristin Bauer all nude.

Strippers are natural movie subjects, and more and more, celebrities want to study these exotic creatures to portray them. Mr Skin will simply study celebrity strippers nude.