Some reputations enter the room before their owners do. Hollywood has plenty to say about celebrities with big dicks. Think cheeky interviews, partner praise and scenes that nearly wore out the pause button. Ben Affleck brought IMAX into it. Cooper Koch cleared up the prosthetic question. Victoria Beckham had thoughts.
Consider this a gossip tour, not a measuring contest. We’ve rounded up the famous quotes, the memorable moments and the legends that refuse to retire. The rumors get a wink and a label. The men get their moment.
They Said What They Said
Ben Affleck: Now Showing in IMAX
Affleck went full frontal in Gone Girl and did the promo for it himself in October 2014. “The penis is in there! It’s IMAX penis! You’ve gotta pay 15 bucks to see it in 3D… it’s better in 3D,” he told MTV News, as Entertainment Tonight reported.
Jennifer Garner, his wife at the time, got the follow-up question about his nude scene in the David Fincher thriller on Ellen, and she backed him. “I hope he had a wide lens,” she said, per HuffPost UK.
Paul Rudd: Bigger Than the Paycheck
Chris Evans did the asking during Variety’s Actors on Actors in June 2020. “Paul, what’s your penis size?” he said.
Rudd answered right away. “It’s even bigger than my paycheck. Put in your own Ant-Man joke there,” he said, Yahoo Entertainment reported.
The joke resurfaced in January 2026 on the podcast Take Your Shoes Off, where comedian Rick Glassman told him, “You have a huge penis.” Rudd’s reply, per Complex: “I didn’t realize that you even saw my penis.”
Shaquille O’Neal: The Shoe Answer
Andy Cohen asked Shaq how big he is on Watch What Happens Live in March 2014, and Shaq answered with footwear. “And you took off your shoe. That’s all I’m going to say,” Anderson Cooper said when Shaq joined him and Cohen on CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast on Dec. 31, 2019.
Shaq told Cohen to go ahead and ask again on live TV. “It’s 2019. Go ahead. Ask it right now,” he said, Mediaite reported.
Cohen asked, and Shaq acted shocked. “I do not believe that you just asked me that question,” he said, per Mediaite.
Jason Derulo: Too Much for Instagram
Instagram took down an underwear photo Derulo posted from a Bali trip in December 2019. “It’s discrimination. Like, I understand, I can’t help my size, but you can’t take down my pic,” he said in an Instagram Story, Entertainment Tonight reported. His caption when he reposted it: “Is this better?”
Cooper Koch: No Prosthetic Required
People wanted to know if the prison shower scene in Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story used a prosthetic. “Just to say, mine is not a prosthetic,” Koch told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live in October 2024, per HuffPost UK.
Koch, who later picked up an Emmy nomination for playing Erik Menendez, added two words: “Well hung.”
The Partners Have Entered the Chat
Leonardo DiCaprio: The Memoir Mention
Model Bobbie Brown wrote about a fling with DiCaprio, when both were adults, in her 2013 memoir. “The kid put Tommy Lee to shame,” she wrote, as Bustle reported in November 2013.
Brown’s account did the talking. Bustle supplied the headline: “Leo’s got a Big Secret. Huge.”
David Beckham: Victoria’s Armani Defense
David Beckham’s Armani underwear campaign put him on billboards in his briefs. He had a “huge one,” Victoria Beckham said in an interview the New York Post quoted Aug. 17, 2022.
“It’s like a tractor exhaust pipe!” she said, per the Post. Victoria has always understood the assignment.
Liam Neeson: The Janice Dickinson Review
“It was like an Evian bottle fell out of his pants,” Janice Dickinson told Star magazine in 2011 about her brief fling with Neeson, Us Weekly reported. She’d been telling the story of the fling since her 2002 memoir, No Lifeguard on Duty.
“The earth shook. Oh my God, you don’t understand,” she said.
Ashton Kutcher: A Guinness, Not a Carrot
Asked about her husband’s size during “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts” on The Late Late Show with James Corden in 2016, Mila Kunis “accidentally says ‘carrot stick’ before changing her mind and saying he’s ‘like a Guinness!'” Marie Claire reported on July 26, 2016.
50 Cent: The Chelsea Handler Bit
“Small or medium, you know, you’re not going to, like, do that with 50 Cent,” Chelsea Handler said onstage in a 2023 stand-up set about her time with him, Uproxx reported in May 2023.
His response on Instagram, where he reposted the clip: “Yo she is so crazy,” plus laughing emojis, per Uproxx.
Bill Hader: The Podcast Confession
Rachel Bilson was asked on her podcast Broad Ideas in August 2022 what she misses most about Bill Hader. “His big d**k,” she answered, according to Entertainment Tonight on Aug. 16, 2022, then laughed and moved on.
“We dated. I went to the f**king Golden Globes,” Bilson had said in an earlier episode.
Dwyane Wade: The Eggplant Emoji Lesson
Gabrielle Union told Jimmy Kimmel Live that her husband kept seeing one emoji under his posts. “What is the eggplant emoji and why is that in my comments?” she recalled him asking, CinemaBlend reported on Sept. 30, 2021.
Union walked the NBA Hall of Famer through it. The emoji is for “a blessed person, a blessed gentleman…” she explained.
“He knows now!” she told Kimmel.
Offset: Cardi B Said It Plainly
Cardi B, married to Offset at the time (they’ve since split), heard from a fan in October 2019 asking about the tattoo of his name on her body. “Cause his d**k fat,” she wrote back on Twitter, the Jamaica Observer reported on Oct. 15, 2019.
“I need you to hit my pancreas again,” she’d tweeted at him that March, followed by an eggplant emoji, BET reported.
Robin Thicke: Paula Patton’s Interview
Glamour asked Paula Patton in 2013, while she was promoting Baggage Claim and still married to Thicke, whether he is well-endowed. “I think that the statement is fairly accurate!” she said, TheGrio reported on Oct. 15, 2013.
His own more modest take, as she passed it along: “Listen, if I’m, you know, in the Miami Heat’s locker room, I don’t know where I stand, but…”
Mark Consuelos: The ‘Shadow’ Defense
Consuelos dressed as “Ponch” from CHiPs for Halloween in 2020, people zoomed in on the uniform pants, and he blamed a “shadow,” CinemaBlend reported on Oct. 26, 2020.
“Ummmmm baby are you seeing shadows?” Kelly Ripa wrote on Instagram that October.
“I could tell you were starting to feel really good about yourself,” she told him on air in September 2023, during a Naked Attraction segment on Live With Kelly and Mark, Men’s Health reported.
Eric Decker: Jessie James Decker’s Math
A fan tweeted in October 2012 that the Broncos receiver had tripped during Monday Night Football. “What do u expect? He has 3 of them,” his then-girlfriend, singer Jessie James, replied, CBS Chicago reported on Oct. 16, 2012.
Married to him by September 2016, she marked his touchdown against Buffalo with a censored nickname for him online that was not subtle at all, per Larry Brown Sports.
The Scenes and Co-Stars That Got Everyone Talking
Daniel Craig: Judi Dench Saw Too Much
Oscar winner Judi Dench played M opposite Craig in 2006’s Casino Royale and caught a glimpse of him dressing in his trailer during the shoot, the New Zealand Herald reported. “It’s an absolute monster!” she said.
She walked it back a little right away. “Maybe I shouldn’t have said that. How uncouth of me!”
The line goes back to a 2006 Daily Star interview, according to the New York Post, which reran it in 2022.
Ewan McGregor: The Colin Farrell Testimonial
McGregor has done nude scenes in Trainspotting, The Pillow Book and Velvet Goldmine. “I don’t think Ewan is as proud of his penis as most men who are as well-hung would,” Colin Farrell, his co-star in Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream, told Nylon Guys, Entertainment Tonight reported.
Farrell turned it into a compliment on McGregor’s humility. “I think that’s the greatest demonstration of his innate humility, that he doesn’t wear it like a badge of honor,” he said.
Chris Pine: ‘Outlaw King’ Priorities
“There’s so much beheading in this, and yet people want to talk about my penis,” Pine told The Hollywood Reporter at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, where the press wanted to talk about his full-frontal scene as Robert the Bruce in Netflix’s Outlaw King.
He brought up the shooting conditions on his own. “It was very cold, and on the side of a major highway,” he said.
Willem Dafoe: Dana Delany’s ‘Light Sleeper’ Review
Dana Delany shared a nude scene with Dafoe in Paul Schrader’s 1992 drama Light Sleeper, and one of their scripted lines said he seemed happy to see her. “And it truly was,” she told Cosmopolitan, as MEL Magazine recounted.
Lars von Trier told Peter Keough of The Boston Phoenix that Antichrist used a stand-in “because Will’s was too big,” LADbible reported on July 22, 2022. Asked whether he meant too big for the screen, von Trier said, “No, too big because everybody got very confused when they saw it.”
Between those two reviews, the reputation practically wrote itself.
Michael Fassbender: George Clooney’s Golf Joke
George Clooney brought up Fassbender’s role in Steve McQueen’s Shame during his Golden Globes acceptance speech on Jan. 15, 2012. “Really Michael, honestly, you can play golf like this with your hands behind your back,” Clooney said, per Access Hollywood.
Fassbender took the compliment in stride. “I love him, man,” he said.
Charlize Theron weighed in at a 2012 gala, IBTimes reported. “Your penis was a revelation. I’m available to work with it any time.”
Lenny Kravitz: Stockholm, 2015
Leather pants are part of the Kravitz uniform. On Aug. 3, 2015, a pair split at the crotch while he crouched with his guitar at a Stockholm concert, and he wasn’t wearing underwear, The Hollywood Reporter reported. He joked about it on Twitter on Aug. 4 with “#penisgate” and posted a screenshot of a text from Steven Tyler, per THR.
No one has made a size claim about Kravitz.
Jason Segel: ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’
Segel wrote Forgetting Sarah Marshall and gave himself a full-frontal breakup scene in 2008. “The full-frontal nudity? I thought that was hilarious,” he told Vulture, as Entertainment Tonight reported.
Director Nicholas Stoller remembered Segel’s mood that day a little differently. “He was mainly nervous that his wiener look normal, which in a very cold stage is hard to achieve,” Stoller told Entertainment Weekly in a story published Feb. 6, 2019.
Nobody’s on record about size here.
Joaquin Phoenix: Ari Aster’s ‘Flaunt It’ Line
Phoenix’s character Joe Cross gets a late montage of his new daily routine in Eddington. In it, Phoenix “offers some rare full-frontal nudity from a male movie star,” Variety wrote in a 2025 interview with director Ari Aster.
Aster spoke to Variety over Zoom from A24’s office. “If you got it, you might as well [flaunt it],” the director said of his lead, per Variety.
Phoenix hasn’t weighed in.
Justin Theroux: ‘The Leftovers’ Jog
HBO’s The Leftovers was a grim show about the vanishing of 2% of humanity, and Theroux’s sweatpants got talked about in 2014. “There was this scene where he was jogging and there was quite a large bulge in his sweatpants and it was all over,” co-star Liv Tyler said on Watch What Happens Live, Complex reported on July 17, 2014.
Theroux got the question on Conan. “I’m trying to figure out what the classy way to answer this question is,” he said.
Wardrobe’s fix for a later jogging scene was “two pairs of underwear,” he explained, E! News reported.
Barry Keoghan: ‘Saltburn’ Was All Him
Keoghan dances naked through an English country house at the end of 2023’s Saltburn, to “Murder on the Dancefloor,” and people immediately asked whether it was real. “It was all me, you know…” he said on The Louis Theroux Podcast on Nov. 4, 2024, People reported.
Theroux mentioned claims that it was “enhanced.” “Wait, enhanced? Who said that?” Keoghan shot back.
Gayety covered the scene’s prosthetic question back in December 2023.
Anthony Boyle: ‘House of Guinness’ Bath Scene
Boyle’s bath scene in Netflix’s House of Guinness in 2025 was his own idea. “It’s not a prosthetic. It’s my own body,” he told Men’s Health, LADbible reported on Oct. 6, 2025.
He told Variety he called the director the night before the shoot to pitch himself climbing out of the tub. The director said, “Yeah, fuck it. Let’s do it,” per AOL.
Alex Hassell: ‘Rivals’ Without a Stand-In
Fellow guest Hugh Bonneville asked about a prosthetic for Hassell’s 2024 nude scene in Disney+’s Rivals, the 1980s bonkbuster based on Jilly Cooper’s novel. “In the end we decided it would be me and I was alright about that,” Hassell said on Zoe Ball’s BBC Radio 2 show in November 2024, per Hello!.
He listed what was fake for Metro, as quoted in an AOL roundup. “My hair’s dyed, I’ve got a fake tan and my eyelashes are curled, but apart from that, it’s all me.”
Anthony Ammirati: The Paris Olympics Pole Vault
The French pole vaulter’s crotch appeared to clip the bar at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 3, 2024. On Aug. 5 he wrote over the video on TikTok, “POV: tu fais plus de buzz pour ton paquet que pour tes perfs.” The gist is that his package was getting more buzz than his results.
His caption, in People’s translation, was “I don’t really know if I should take it well or not 😂,” People reported on Aug. 8, 2024.
He’d rather talk about the vault. Missing the final was “a big disappointment,” he said.
Big If True: Reported but Never Confirmed
And now, the gossip hall of fame. These stories have done the rounds for years. Take them with a generous pinch of salt and enjoy the lore.
Jon Hamm: ‘Not the Worst’ Rumor
Hamm’s trousers got a lot of coverage during the Mad Men years. “I’m wearing pants, for f***’s sake,” he told Rolling Stone in 2013, as Entertainment Tonight reported. “They’re called ‘privates’ for a reason.”
He’d eased up by 2016. As rumors go, he told GQ for its Men of the Year issue, this one was “not the worst,” the New Zealand Herald reported.
The rumor has outlasted several television eras.
Jamie Foxx: Notes From ‘The Jamie Foxx Show’
Garcelle Beauvais spent five seasons with Foxx on The Jamie Foxx Show, from 1996 to 2001, and talked about him on her podcast, Going to Bed With Garcelle, in September 2020. “He’s also hung like a horse. What would I do with all of that?!” she said, Essence reported.
Foxx was a guest on the episode and laughed. “What you can’t eat, just put in a doggie bag and save it for later,” he said, Atlanta Black Star reported.
On The Real, she mentioned the sitcom’s 100 episodes and the times “he’d have to rip off a pair of pants” for a bit, theGrio reported. The New York Post quoted her again in 2022: “It’s just like ‘holy crap!'”
Beauvais lobbed it. Foxx had a punchline ready.
Jimi Hendrix: The Plaster Cast
Artist Cynthia Albritton, known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, made plaster molds of rock stars, and Hendrix was an early subject. She made his cast on Feb. 25, 1968, Rolling Stone reported in her obituary. Wendy Mitchell, writing for Salon on July 12, 2000, called it “the largest cast in her collection.”
That description is Salon’s own. Albritton remembered the session as low-key. “He was kind of stoned and mellow,” she said, per The Week.
Rock history has some unusual souvenirs. This one certainly qualifies.
Frank Sinatra: The Ava Gardner Line
Ava Gardner, Sinatra’s second wife, is often quoted on this, but the wording changes from one telling to the next, and no original has surfaced. The Week, reviewing Lee Server’s Gardner biography, wrote, “When the press asked what she saw in the 119-pound crooner, she quipped that 19 of those pounds were between his legs.”
Old Hollywood never let subtlety ruin a good punchline.
Milton Berle: The Hollywood Legend
Tierney Finster called Berle’s reputation a “legend” in a Dec. 6, 2017, deep dive for MEL Magazine, and all of it is secondhand or a joke. Truman Capote quoted Marilyn Monroe saying, “Christ! Everybody says Milton Berle has the biggest schlong in Hollywood,” MEL Magazine recounted.
Berle played along late in life. “All I know, is that when I get an erection, I black out,” he quipped, per MEL.
Jackée Harry, the 227 star, later compared him to the racehorse Seabiscuit, the New York Post reported in 2022.
Gary Cooper: The Lupe Velez Quote
Old Hollywood gets the last word. Writing for The Hairpin’s “Scandals of Classic Hollywood” series, Anne Helen Petersen reported that Lupe Velez, his lover in the late 1920s, “purportedly” said Cooper “has the biggest organ in Hollywood,” along with a crude knock on his technique.
Petersen gives no original source, and she warns that some Velez stories may have been invented to fit her image. The High Noon star never addressed it.
Hollywood loves a big story. These men have inspired a few. Whether it started with a joke, a memoir or one extremely memorable scene, the gossip has staying power.
