Kate Bosworth in “Big Sur” (2013), one of her few nude appearances.
That performance made the list of our Top Nude Scenes of 2013, but mostly because she had been so stingy with nudity before that time (and since that time, for that matter). Her scene would not normally have made our list since it usually includes 20 scenes and she finished in a tie for 23rd, but 2013 and 2014 were such impressive years for nudity that the list was expanded to 25 scenes. Those two years produced: Rosario Dawson in Trance; Margot Robbie in The Wolf of Wall Street; La Daddario in True Detective; ScarJo in Under the Skin. That is four of the top seven nude scenes of the Millennium in just those two years. (Daddario #1, Rosario #3, ScarJo #4, Robbie #7). And there were many other great scenes in those years as well.
Back on topic:
Kate showed only a bit of butt-crack in Blue Crush (2002), and a “blink and you miss it” nipple in The Rules of Attraction (also 2002), so she had basically done no nudity until 2013. In that year she did the above scene in Big Sur and a brief topless scene in And While We Were Here (below). There has been nothing since then. Perhaps she is the human equivalent of an 11-year cicada and we will see her naked twice again in 2024.
