10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Big Lebowski

5. That€™s Julianne Moore, But Not Her Bottom

Here€™s an odd one. Few fans could forget the scene where Julianne Moore€™s Maude is butt naked. She flies over The Dude on a wire as part of an elaborate painting technique. Before she puts a robe on afterwards, The Dude €“ and the viewer €“ sees her bottom. Except, actually, they don€™t. Originally this scene was going to be filmed using a body double, because Moore didn€™t want to do it. When the double dropped out shortly before shooting due to a credit dispute, Moore stepped up and agreed to film the scene. She had one stipulation, though €“ that a prosthetic posterior be made to cover her own. So, in the finished film, that€™s Moore who flies overhead, but it's not Moore€™s actual bottom you see afterwards. Instead, it's a prosthetic arse made to cover up the real thing. Sorry to ruin that for you, guys. Another fun fake-body-part fact: The Jesus has a bag of birdseed stuffed down his trousers.
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