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11.05.2022 - 19:55 / deadline.com
Following the leak on social media of cell phone video and photos of a naked Jesse Williams, star of Broadway’s Take Me Out, the venue will install an infrared camera system facing the audience that will be monitored in real time by the venue’s security team, a spokesperson for the show tells Deadline.
The cell phone video, shot from the audience and then posted on social media the day of the Tony Award announcements, infuriated the Second Stage Theater, Actors’ Equity and Williams’ co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson. “Taking naked pictures of anyone without their consent is highly objectionable and can have severe legal consequences,” Second Stage said in a statement last night. “Posting it on the internet is a gross and unacceptable violation of trust between the actor and audience forged in the theater community.”
The theater company said it is “actively pursuing takedown requests and ask that no one participates in the distribution of these images, and that the venue is adding additional staff at the theater to enforce the policy.
“I’m appalled by the disrespect shown to the actors of our company whose vulnerability on stage ever night is crucial to Take Me Out,” Ferguson tweeted. “Anyone who applauds or trivializes this behavior has no place in the theater which has always been a safe space for artists & audience members.”
(Williams himself was asked about the nude scene – though not the video leak – on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live Monday, telling host host Andy Cohen, “Everyone around me [was] going, ‘Are you serious? Are you sure? Nude, nude? Naked?’ And everybody makes such a big deal. It’s a body. Once you see it, you realize, whatever. It’s a body. I just have to not make it that big of a deal.”)
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NEW YORK -- Jesse Williams vowed not to be discouraged after leaked video and images of his onstage nude scene in the Broadway play “Take Me Out” were posted online.“I’m not down about it. Our job is to go out there every night, no matter what,” Williams told The Associated Press on Thursday.The leaked video and images prompted an outcry from the show's producers and the union that represents actors and stage managers.“I’m not really worrying about it. I can’t sweat that.
Jesse Williams has spoken out regarding the leak of a nude scene from his Broadway revival of Take Me Out, saying that he’s “not down” about it.
Jesse Williams' play is taking action after nude footage of him onstage leaked online. In the wake of the leak, Second Stage Theater is «adding additional staff» and has installed an infrared camera system to detect violators of its no-phone policy, ET confirmed.«This will allow us to focus on an audience member who looks like they're doing something suspicious, and assess whether they're just going through a purse to get a breath mint or pulling out a phone,» Peter Dean, director of production for Second Stage, told The New York Times.After the leak spread online, the theater took to Twitter to condemn the actions of the audience member who posted the footage.«Second Stage Theater has worked to ensure the privacy of the 'Take Me Out' company by creating a phone-free space with locked phone cases at all performances.
Jesse Williams‘ Broadway show is making a big change.
One night before a leaked video spread across Twitter, Jesse Williams discussed his full frontal nude Broadway scene, which has since set the internet ablaze.Williams appeared with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and their fellow castmates on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live,” and when Cohen broached the subject, Williams seemed pretty relaxed about the whole thing. First Cohen asked if the audience reacted to the nudity in “Take Me Out,” for which Williams has been Tony-nominated.“A non-reaction is a really interesting reaction,” Williams responded.
The Second Stage theater is addressing the leaked video that has gone viral.
has responded to those leaked Jesse Williams nudes.Currently home to Williams’ “Take Me Out’ play, the theater said it was “appalled” that a spectator broke its sealed-phone policy and shared the eye-opening footage on social media. “Taking naked pictures of anyone without their consent is highly objectionable and can have severe legal consequences,” the theater said in a statement shared on Instagram Tuesday.
Jesse Williams has the backing of his theatre group.
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