Jesse Williams Addresses Nude Scenes in Broadway's 'Take Me Out' After Video Leak: 'It's Just a Body'
10.05.2022 - 21:41
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Jesse Williams isn’t paying attention to the hype surrounding his stripped-down performance in Broadway’s On Monday, Twitter went wild when a clip featuring the actor going full frontal during the show leaked, making him one of social media's highest ranked searches. During an appearance on Monday’s, the 40-year-old actor, who has been nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the play, discussed the reactions he may receive from friends, family and fans who see him bare it all on the stage. «Everyone around me [was] going, ‘Are you sure? Nude, nude?’ and everybody makes such a big deal,” he told Andy Cohen.
“It’s a body. Once you see it, you realize, whatever.» He added, “It’s a body. I just have to not make it that big of a deal.” Cohen asked the star if standing onstage naked is better “when you feel good about your penis,” which prompted Williams to quip, “I would imagine so. I don’t, so I don’t know.” Williams, who was joined by his co-star in the show (and fellow Tony nominee), Jesse Tyler Ferguson, has already had some former colleagues see him in the play.
The actor revealed that his on-screen mother, Debbie Allen, has attended, as well as Ellen Pompeo. “I wasn’t nervous for them to see me,” he said about his former co-stars. “I didn’t know Ellen or Debbie were coming.” In fact, when it comes to familiar faces coming to see him, Williams actually likes the element of surprise.
“I've learned in my first few weeks of production that I don’t want to know," he said. “I was confident like, ‘Yeah, sure tell me.’ And then it’s just, I don’t want to know. Absolutely not.” revolves aroundbaseball player Darren Lemming (Williams) being a gay person of color on a professional baseball team.