Celebs with penises too big for screens – stunt sausage, ‘shrinking’ pills and wide lens

Over the years, genitals have faced censorship on screen for various reasons – modesty, nudity contracts and artistic merit.

But some actors have been forced to disguise their manhoods simply because they were too large to film. Some opted for stunt penises, others for body doubles, and others had their bulges smoothed over in post-production, using CGI or airbrushing.

Jennifer Garner once joked that her ex Ben Affleck had to be filmed using a wide lens because it’s so long. Ben went full-frontal in Gone Girl in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene, with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres joking that the nudity was simply to entice fans into cinemas.

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His then wife Garner quipped: “He’s showing his penis. I think you’re probably onto something.” She then addressed the crowd: “What I have to say is, ‘You’re welcome.’ I just try to consider myself a charitable person and I wanted to give back. You give me so much, I wanted to give something back to all of you.”

Jen added: “It wasn’t a discussion, it was like, ‘Hey, at work today [director David] Fincher talked me into coming out of the shower.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, cool, well, I hope he had on a wide lens.'” He’s not the only one!

Burt Ward

Batman! star Burt Ward said his penis was so large in his tiny green shorts while playing sidekick Robin in the 1966-1968 show that execs urged him to take pills that would “shrink him up”. But the tablets only lasted a mere three days.

Network ABC, who aired the show, worried the bulge in his tiny superhero costume was simply too large for a family-friendly audience. Ward explained: “They thought that Robin had a very large bulge for television.” So he began taking shrinkage pills, but said: “I took them for three days and then I decided that they can probably keep me from having children. I stopped doing that and I just used my cape to cover it.”

Batman actor Adam West, meanwhile, needed his bulge a little larger, with Burt confessing: “With Adam they put Turkish towels in his undershorts.”

Colin Farrell

While filming A Home at the End of the World back in 2004, Irish heartthrob Colin Farrell had to have his penis edited out completely – because test audiences found it too hard to concentrate after it flashed up on screen.

According to sources who spoke to The Sun, his massive manhood left the audience majorly affected. The insider said: “The women were overexcited, and the men looked really uncomfortable.” They added: “All you could hear were gasps when Colin appeared in his full frontal pose.

“It was such a sight it made it difficult to concentrate on the plot, so the decision was made to get rid of it.” Even director Michael Mayer admitted it was “distracting”. But Colin claims his own member is smaller than legendary Scottish star Ewan McGregor’s.

He joked: “Let me tell you, it ain’t nothing to f***ing write home about. Someone told me that someone said it was fine but it was no Ewan McGregor! It’s nothing, man! I walk to a door and you see my c***, and I walk out of the shot. It’s dark, and it’s three inches, uh, seconds long.”

Willem Dafoe

Poor Things star Willem Dafoe once starred in a grisly horror movie that featured unsimulated sex – but body doubles had to be used because he was “too well endowed” to strip off on screen. That film was 2009’s Antichrist, directed by Lars von Trier.

Dafoe explained: “Lars used a porn actor for those scenes. It was a good decision because, if it was me, then that’s all that people would talk about. Obviously Lars wants the characters to have genitals but it would become a distraction: ‘Oh, they really had sex!’ If he had asked me to do it, I don’t know what I would have said.”

He did offer to strip off for the movie, but von Trier insisted on using body doubles to get the best shot.

Jon Hamm

Mad Men actor Jon Hamm was allegedly so large that he was forced to wear special underwear while filming certain scenes for the AMC show, set in the 1960s. A source told New York Daily: “This season takes place in the 1960s, where the pants are very tight and leave little to the imagination.

“Jon’s impressive anatomy is so distracting that they politely insisted on underwear.” In addition, billboards advertising the programme had to be Photoshopped due to the “prominent appearance of Jon Jr.”

The insider added: “Imagine how distracting that would be on the side of a bus or building. When the promotional pictures came back the first few seasons, we had to work with them. Everyone was concerned about too much Christina Hendricks boob, but it’s Jon that has the most to show. It’s a good problem to have.”

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Jon later clarified that he doesn’t go commando, explaining to radio host Howard Stern: “I have worn underwear every single day of my life. First of all, who doesn’t wear underwear? Yeah, I’ve worn underwear every day of my life. With a suit? Come on. I love a comfy boxer brief, thank you very much. I like a breathable cotton. Who doesn’t?”

He added to Rolling Stone in 2019: “They’re called ‘privates’ for a reason. I’m wearing pants, for f***‘s sake. Lay off. I mean, it’s not like I’m a f***ing lead miner.

“There are harder jobs in the world — but when people feel the freedom to create Tumblr accounts about my c**k, I feel like that wasn’t part of the deal… But whatever. I guess it’s better than being called out for the opposite.”

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