While perusing this article on movie star butt doubles in the usually much more thought-provoking Slate (God, am I single), I noticed an odd coincidence. Not only did Luke and Owen “You loved us in Bottle Rocket but we’ve long since sold out” Wilson have big summer comedies open one week apart (Luke’s My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Owen’s You, Me and Dupree), but both brothers used butt doubles for their big comic embarrassment nude scenes.
We could probably chalk this up to typical “I’m too good for this” male movie star vanity - as opposed to female movie star vanity, which dictates that success cannot be achieved until every sighted man, woman and child has seen one’s tits on the cover of Vanity Fair - but what if it’s more? What if the Wilsons are cursed with some hereditary deformity on their backsides, like a Hitler-shaped birthmark, or a vestigial tail?
What if, while growing up in Texas, they were subject to regular beatings by gun-toting rednecks, and suffered unsightly scarring? What if they’re victims of the devastating Flat-Ass Syndrome? Are they eligible for assistance from the Michael Douglas Memorial Flat-Ass Foundation?
Are any female PEN15 readers willing to get to the, um, bottom of this? Even we think both boys seem genuinely straight, and if Owen’s reputation is at all accurate, it shouldn’t be that hard. In fact, if any of you can comment on this post with a firsthand description of one or both Wilson asses, we promise we won’t make fun of straight women things - weddings, Ty Pennington, Grey’s Anatomy - for three whole days.
I want a butt double [Slate]
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