Jesse Williams

Jesse Williams said on "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen" that he is OK with being nude in "Take Me Out." His appearance aired hours after NSFW ...

“Honestly, I just make that excitement. “And I won’t be scared of anything after this.” “It’s a body.

Even though audience members are required to keep their phones locked in cases throughout the entirety of the play.

I’ve learned in my minutes in theater, which is all a first for me, is don’t try to read into it because it just creates more insecurity.” Williams also told Cohen that he “won’t be scared of anything after this [experience], that’s for sure.” “It’s certainly nice to know that we’re safe onstage, being naked and not being recorded,” he said. I asked to do something that was scary and challenging and made me earn it and made me feel alive and not comfortable.”

Tony-nominated Jesse Williams appeared on "Watch What Happens Live" where he discussed being nude on Broadway's "Take Me Out."

"Everybody makes such a big deal," Williams stated. Williams said that he endured questions from friends and family like, "Are you serious? "You're presenting yourself to everyone."

Nude images and video of Jesse Williams starring in Broadway's "Take Me Out" leaked on Monday night and began circulating online.

I asked to be terrified," Williams told the publication. Jesse said on the "Watch What Happens Live After Show." "I just have to make it not that big of a deal." In the play, Williams plays a gay baseball player who comes out at the height of his success and encounters problems because of it.

Sharing footage of Jesse Williams' nude Broadway debut is a serious breach of theatre trust, writes Nicole Vassell.

Sharing footage is a serious breach of trust within the theatre space. Still, this is not a case that can be argued away with a claim of providing public service for the masses. Though much of the narrative surrounding the social media leak has been based in jest, it’s worth noting the different reactions that this leak may have generated if this had been a female actor’s body on display. The fact that the video was taken in the first place is a problem enough. But as soon as sloppy recordings get taken and pasted across Twitter, the possible depth of the nude scene evaporates. Late on Monday, illicit fan footage from a performance was posted on social media, showing Williams fully nude while facing the audience.

The Internet had a few thoughts when images of a nude Jesse Williams—from an onstage scene in his Broadway play Take Me Out—made its way to social media.

"I asked to be terrified. I guess now is a good time to start back up." Jesse said during the May 9 episode of Watch What Happens Live's After Show. "I just have to make it not that big of a deal."

On Monday night, around the same time Jesse Williams was nominated for a Tony for his performance in Broadway's 'Take Me Out,' leaked nudes of him ...

I asked to do something that was scary and challenging and made me earn it and made me feel alive and not comfortable.” The show includes a shower scene, in which Williams and another actor appear fully nude. According to CNN, Second Stage’s Hayes Theater requires audience members to lock their phones into pouches for the duration of the show “out of respect and support for our actors and in order to create a phone-free space” — meaning that whoever leaked the images presumably violated that policy.

The internet is pining over Jesse Williams after an audience member leaked a nude video of the actor in the Broadway show, "Take Me Out."

The play, written by Richard Greenberg, focusses on the coming out story of Darren Lemming (Williams), a gay, bi-racial professional baseball player. "i guess we all going to the jesse williams play!" "Driving to NY to see Jesse Williams on Broadway as we speak," one person tweeted.

Nude photos of Jesse Williams from his Broadway play, Take Me Out, went viral online, and fans had some pretty wild reactions.

Another joked that the actor might be in trouble if he ever found himself in need of medical treatment. So is Pete Davidson about to lose his place as the most famously well-endowed celebrity of our time? Well, if a rowdier reaction was what Jesse Williams was looking for, he found it on Twitter. When the NSFW photos starting making the rounds, social media users took notice:

Actors' Equity is blasting an audience member who secretly videotaped Jesse Williams doing a nude scene in 'Take Me Out' and then put it on Twitter.

We are appalled that this policy has been violated and unauthorized footage of our acting company has been posted. Whoever did this knew not only that they were filming actors without their consent, but also that they were explicitly violating the theater’s prohibition on recording and distribution. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the creation and distribution of photographs and videos of our members during a nude scene,” said Kate Shindle, president of Actors’ Equity Association. “As actors, we regularly agree to be vulnerable onstage in order to tell difficult and challenging stories.

Former Grey's Anatomy star Jesse Williams is taking all of the coverage of his full-frontal naked Broadway scene in stride.

To be scared and excited, to be pushed.' Williams said: 'I didn't know Ellen [Pompeo] or Debbie [Allen] were coming and I've learned in my first few weeks in production that I don't want to know. She said: 'I don't really know, Pat. But I'm honestly not really trying to find out either. I just have to make it not that big of a deal.' Audience members have their phones placed in pouches and locked. The quiet.'

"We condemn in the strongest possible terms the creation and distribution of photographs and videos of our members during a nude scene," said Kate Shindle, ...

He added, "And truly, if nudity is what you are coming for...you are in for a long boring night. It's a body. The theater company added that it is expanding its staff to help implement its phone policy. It is deeply unfortunate that one audience member chose to disrespect the production, their fellow audience members and, most importantly, the cast in this manner. Much of the Tony Award-winning piece is set in a locker room, and the actors go full-frontal during a shower scene. This does not mean that we agree to have those vulnerable moments widely shared by anyone who feels like sneaking a recording device into the theater."

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Actors' Equity condemn recording actors in nude scenes after a leak of Jesse Williams in "Take Me Out" on Broadway.

A revival of the play by Richard Greenberg, “Take Me Out” has drawn acclaim since opening on Broadway earlier this spring. “Anyone who applauds or trivializes this behavior has no place in the theater which has always been a safe space for artists & audience members.” We are actively pursuing takedown requests and ask that no one participates in the distribution of these images.”