From classic Hollywood to modern blockbusters, some scenes just wouldn't be the same without showing a little skin. Join us as we explore the most memorable shirtless moments that enhanced their films' storytelling, added dramatic tension, or created iconic cultural moments that audiences still talk about today.
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00:00Back up. I'm coming up.
00:09Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the shirtless scenes that didn't just look great
00:15but also added a lot to the movie. At least that's what we tell ourselves.
00:18You sir. Yeah, you do the honors.
00:21Take that cash you put in that bag right there. You got an amazing story to tell your friends.
00:25If not, you got a tag on your toe. You decide.
00:27Take that.
00:29Number 10. Bathing at camp.
00:31Australia. Baz Luhrmann's polarizing epic about a cattle station in Australia during the Second World War
00:36ran a little longer than a lot of critics would have preferred.
00:39Damn, I see you're standing your way.
00:42I am, yeah.
00:43But for all its excess, there was one moment that audiences were more than glad to see in the final cut.
00:48In this erotically charged scene, Hugh Jackman plays a rancher in the Australian Outback
00:53who's camping with a repressed aristocrat played by Nicole Kidman.
00:57Mr. Grover.
01:06Well, he shows her some of the more majestic beauties of the Australian Outback.
01:10Chief among them, his rock-hard abs.
01:13It's a heavy-handed but effective way to turn up the tension between them.
01:16Mr. Grover. Yeah.
01:18There's only one tent. That's right.
01:21For the four of us.
01:22Well, you know, it gets pretty chilly here at night.
01:24We like to bunk up together, eh, muggery?
01:27Relax, huh?
01:28Number nine, Barry at the gym.
01:30I know what you did last summer.
01:36Ryan Phillippe's a jock with a bad attitude and a big secret in this late-90s slasher
01:40about a group of young people who are terrorized by a stalker.
01:43We catch up with him as he's alone and shirtless after an intense gym workout.
01:47Hello?
01:54Hello?
02:01Not only is it a welcome dose of eye candy,
02:03but it also just kind of adds to how terrifying a situation like this would be.
02:07Being undressed and vulnerable in an empty public space can be uncomfortable enough.
02:11It's also kind of the worst situation to find yourself being stalked by a killer.
02:15Hello?
02:24Hello?
02:32Number eight, The Walls of Jericho.
02:34It happened one night.
02:36I just had the unpleasant sensation of hearing you referred to as my husband.
02:41Oh, yeah. I forgot to tell you about that. I registered as Mr. and Mrs.
02:45This Oscar-winning romantic comedy broke the mold in more ways than one.
02:49In an early scene, Clark Gable's journalist erects a makeshift wall out of bedsheets
02:53to divide the motel room he's sharing with Claudette Colbert's runaway heiress.
02:57Well, this?
03:01Well, I like privacy when I retire.
03:03Yes, I'm very delicate in that respect.
03:05Prying eyes annoy me.
03:06Then he did the unthinkable.
03:09He took off his shirt, revealing only a bare chest and no undershirt.
03:13If you'll notice, the coat came first, then the tie, then the shirt.
03:17Now, according to Hoyle, after that, the pants should be next.
03:22Gable was one of the biggest stars of the classic Hollywood era,
03:25and he was certainly one of the first big stars to do this on screen.
03:28It had such an impact that there's even a myth that the scene
03:31led to a drop in the sale of men's undershirts.
03:34It's every man for himself.
03:43In this takeoff of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,
03:45Amanda Bynes stars as soccer player Viola,
03:48who disguises herself in drag to play on the men's soccer team at a prep school.
03:58Unfortunately, this becomes really complicated
04:01when her roommate is revealed to be the swoon-worthy Duke Orsino,
04:04played by Channing Tatum.
04:14Watching Viola fumble her way through the conversation
04:16with her casually shirtless roommate while trying to pretend to be a boy
04:19and also pretend like she's not into him is comedy gold.
04:30It sets the stage for the romantic tension
04:32that's gonna make her charade even harder to maintain.
04:47Number six.
04:48Morning workout.
04:49I am legend.
04:52Being the last man in New York really requires you to stay in shape.
04:56Virologist Richard Neville and his dog Samantha
04:58both have a strict workout routine.
05:09And seeing as he's the only one around,
05:11Neville sees no reason to dress up for the occasion.
05:14Will Smith clearly bulked up to play the ripped scientist,
05:17and his taut physique is put on display in this early sequence.
05:20Yes, he looks great.
05:21It's also a testament to what the character has to do
05:23to keep sharp and keep fit in a world where everything is a threat.
05:37Number five.
05:38T'Challa versus Killmonger.
05:40Black Panther.
05:42I accept your challenge.
05:44The final showdown between the Black Panther and Erik Killmonger
05:47is more than just a vicious battle between two men.
05:50Their showdown is a collision between political and spiritual ideologies
05:53that could tear Wakanda apart.
05:55I killed just to get here.
05:59I killed in America, Afghanistan, Iraq.
06:07I took life from my own brothers and sisters right here on this continent.
06:10Facing off at the top of a waterfall,
06:12the two strip down and engage in one-on-one combat for the throne.
06:16There's no superhero tech, no campy costumes.
06:19It's just two characters battling it out without armor or protection.
06:27And it must be said,
06:29Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan are in great form.
06:41Jordan's character is outfitted with markings that make his torso all the more striking.
06:46But even without that, he is impressive to look at.
07:01Number four.
07:02Cry to me.
07:03Dirty dancing.
07:04Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze are an iconic dance pairing.
07:07Their chemistry is undeniable.
07:10I'm hungry, I'm tired.
07:18But this scene,
07:19when Baby finally tells Johnny how she feels about him
07:21and they engage in a sensual, incredibly erotic dance,
07:24is still one of the steamiest dance scenes ever captured on film.
07:29Don't you feel like crying?
07:33Don't you feel like crying?
07:37A good deal of that has to do with their chemistry.
07:39But Patrick Swayze's dancerly physique captured in warm lighting
07:43is probably responsible for most of that.
07:45The moment is already peak romance.
07:49Don't you feel like crying?
07:53Don't you feel like crying?
08:05Throwing in a shirtless Swayze was almost too much for 1987 audiences to handle.
08:10When you're falling on the floor.
08:14When you're rolling in the floor.
08:18You're rolling in the floor.
08:21You're rolling in the floor.
08:25Number three.
08:26The volleyball game.
08:27Top Gun.
08:28Let's go!
08:29Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer and their fellow military pilots
08:32take a break from their high-octane flight training to have a volleyball game.
08:35The sun shines down on them,
08:37bathing their sweaty, muscular, tanned bodies in golden hour light.
08:47There's no other way to read this
08:49than an unabashed celebration of gorgeous men's bodies.
08:55The homoerotic overtones have not been lost on viewers.
08:58The 2022 sequel, Top Gun Maverick,
09:01decided to restage a version of the scene
09:03with its new younger cast and original star Tom Cruise,
09:06who somehow looks just as good over 35 years later.
09:22Number two.
09:23This is a robbery.
09:24Thelma and Louise.
09:25Oh, you're too weak.
09:26Come on.
09:27All right, all right.
09:30Come on.
09:32Well, don't leave him.
09:33Just leave him there.
09:35This feminist buddy movie stars Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis
09:38as two friends on the run
09:39after one of them shoots a man dead in self-defense.
09:42While on the run,
09:43Davis' character Thelma meets JD,
09:45a suave and rambunctious young man
09:47who admits to being an armed robber.
09:49Are you a criminal?
09:50No.
09:51No, not no more, Thelma.
09:53Let's see.
09:55Besides busting parole,
09:56I haven't done one wrong thing.
09:58What do you do?
10:00I'm a robber.
10:02You're a bank robber?
10:03No.
10:04No.
10:05I don't rob no banks.
10:06Come on.
10:07What do you rob?
10:08Played by an early career Brad Pitt,
10:10JD gets up and demonstrates his robbery technique
10:13with a blow dryer instead of a gun.
10:15But the most memorable part about it
10:17is Pitt's iconically cut abs.
10:19Ladies, gentlemen,
10:20let's see who wins the prize for keeping their cool.
10:22Simon says,
10:23everybody down on the floor.
10:24Now, nobody loses their head,
10:26then nobody loses their head.
10:27It's the same thing that made Tyler Durden
10:29so intoxicating to watch on screen in Fight Club.
10:31He is devilishly handsome and totally dangerous.
10:34My dad never went to college,
10:36so it's real important that I go.
10:38That sounds familiar.
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11:04For years,
11:05the James Bond movies
11:06were where you went
11:07to see beautiful women objectified
11:09in the most outlandish
11:10and ludicrously over-the-top ways.
11:13No.
11:14I'm the new secret weapon.
11:17And I've just been perfected.
11:19Yes, haven't you?
11:20They've kept me under wraps.
11:21Daniel Craig's version of the character
11:23flipped that script entirely.
11:25In Doctor No,
11:26the very first film,
11:27Ursula Andress rose out of the water in a bikini.
11:30In Casino Royale,
11:31it's the secret agent himself that we watch.
11:38Craig's broad frame and chiseled features
11:40drip with water as he emerges from the ocean.
11:42Not only is it a fun and modern twist
11:44on a then 40-year-old series,
11:46but it also gives us the opportunity
11:48to gaze upon the handsome and talented
11:50new James Bond.
11:51Did your favorite movie hunk make the list?
11:53Let us know in the comments.
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