To get into her role as Dr Klemperer in Suspiria, Tilda Swinton wore a set of fake male genitalia. From Nymphomaniac to Boogie Nights, here’s cinema’s story of fake body parts
To prepare for her role as Dr Klemperer in the upcoming remake of Suspiria, Tilda Swinton ventured into the world of prosthetic male genitalia. While her commitment to the part might sound excessive, we’re seeing this kind of thing happen more in movies. You could draw an inappropriately shaped line from Mark Wahlberg’s lovingly crafted accessory in Boogie Nights (scaled down from Dirk Diggler’s real-life inspiration, John “13 ½ inches” Holmes) to the abominably proportioned monster on display in The Greasy Strangler, stopping in between at movies such as The Overnight, in which Jason Schwartzman and Adam Scott compare sizes.
It is in the area of sex that fake genitals are most often called for. We can think we’re seeing the real thing when we aren’t. In Blue Is the Warmest Colour, for example, its stars used fake vulvas for their overextended lesbian sex scenes. And Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac used fake sex organs (as well as “porn doubles”) rather than making stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stacy Martin perform actual sex acts.
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