Jesse Williams

Actor Jesse Williams is the talk of the internet this week after a raunchy clip from his new Broadway show went viral on Twitter.

To be scared and excited and be pushed. “I’m looking to be challenged in new ways. After quitting Greys Anatomy, the 40-year-old revealed that he was set to take on the lead role in the revival of the stage show Take Me Out.

The "Grey's Anatomy" alum goes full frontal in his Tony-nominated role, but strict cellphone rules were supposed to stop overzealous audience members.

“I imagine so,” Williams replied. Williams plays a gay baseball star who comes out and is confronted with media glare and teammate resentment. Second Stage’s Hayes Theater has been enforcing safeguards to prevent leaks.

The production, "Take Me Out," tells the story of a professional baseball player who comes out as gay and is confronted off the field by homophobia and ...

Speaking about the audience's reaction to the naked scenes, he said: "It's so intense, and the language is so dense that as soon as naked people come out, everybody gets quiet. I just have to believe that and lean forward," Williams said. I have no business being here. I know it's going to be fine. I asked to be terrified. I asked to do something that was scary and challenging and made me earn it and made me feel alive and not comfortable," he said.

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. When host Andy Cohen asked if it helps that an actor can "feel good" about their—um, physique—when making the decision to be nude onstage, Jesse had a simple answer. 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."

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.”

Jesse Williams discussed his and Sarah Chalke's upcoming appearance in the "Grey's Anatomy" Season 18 finale.

"You will see them onscreen, possibly on the same screen. The pair were last seen in Season 17 when Jackson and April moved to Boston together with the possibility of reconciling following their divorce in Season 12. On WWHL, Williams said he and Chalke were asked "a few weeks ago" to appear in the finale.

Social media reacts with both thirstiness and condemnation as leaked naked footage of Jesse Williams hits Twitter.

Random strangers ogling your dick completely out of any artistic context is very different from that and extremely uncool. Sure, you could argue that an actor standing before an audience night after night is clearly comfortable showing their body off, though at least they’ve given consent and control over how they’re being perceived. The producers were clearly anxious that this not become sensationalized, and laid down strict rules against recording any footage of Williams naked.

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.

On the heels of his first-ever Tony nomination for his role in the Broadway play, Williams plays a successful, gay baseball player who faces personal and ...

Guests may hold onto their devices, as long as they remain locked “out of respect and support for our actors and in order to create a phone-free space,” according to the theater’s website. “It’s a body. He has been nominated for best performance by a featured actor in a play at the Tony Awards.

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.

Williams' "Grey's Anatomy" costar Ellen Pompeo previously said she's "not trying to find out" what he looks like naked.

How are we gonna go see this show?'" Pompeo recalled of her conversation with Allen. "'Cause you want good seats but you want to be up close, but if he's gonna be naked on stage we don't want to be up close." He also said he changed his mind about wanting to know if his family and friends are in the audience before the show. "As the Empires struggle to rally toward a championship season, the players and their fans begin to question tradition, their loyalties, and the price of victory," Second Stage's synopsis reads. He said he's had "two years of everybody around me going, 'are you serious? In response to a question about nerves from "Watch What Happens Live" host Andy Cohen on Monday's show, which appears to have been filmed before the leak became public, Williams said, "Everybody makes such a big deal. "Take Me Out" opened last month at Second Stage's Helen Hayes Theater in New York City, where filming performances is strictly prohibited.

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.

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.

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.”

"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."

Second Stage Theater and the Actors' Equity Association slammed the fan who recorded and shared nude footage of Jesse Williams on social media during ...

“I just have to make it not that big of a deal.” 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. “As actors, we regularly agree to be vulnerable onstage in order to tell difficult and challenging stories, Kate Shindle, president of the association, said.

The first time “Take Me Out,” a baseball play with nude shower scenes, arrived on Broadway, there were no iPhones in the theater, because they hadn't been ...

“It’s terrifying in all the right ways,” he said on “The Ellen Show” last year. In the run-up to the show, Williams, best known for “Grey’s Anatomy,” discussed the nudity. “Take Me Out,” written by Richard Greenberg, is about homophobia in baseball; Williams plays a team star who comes out as gay and confronts discomfort among some of his teammates.

The Grey's Anatomy star made his Broadway debut with the Tony award winning play Take Me Out which includes full frontal nudity · Sign up to our NationalWorld ...

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 theatre. 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. you are in for a long boring night. He followed up in another tweet which read: “And truly, if nudity is what you are coming for… When asked about stripping in front of an audience every night, Williams said: “Everyone around me [was] going, “Are you serious? It’s a body.

"Anyone who applauds or trivializes this behavior has no place in the theater," Jesse Williams' "Take Me Out" co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson said.

Williams may score the Broadway play another Tony in 2022. The actor said that he endured questions from friends and family like, "Are you serious? "Everybody makes such a big deal," Williams stated. The incident happened at Hayes Theater, which is owned by Second Stage Theater, who produces the "Take Me Out" revival. "Taking naked pictures of anyone without their consent is highly objectionable and can have severe legal consequences. He quipped that audience-goers would also have to sit through "big ideas, beautiful language and remarkable acting."

NEW YORK (AP) — Video of a naked Jesse Williams captured onstage in a shower scene from a Broadway play has been posted online, prompting an outcry from the ...

We are actively pursuing takedown requests and ask that no one participates in the distribution of these images.” “Taking naked pictures of anyone without their consent is highly objectionable and can have severe legal consequences," Second Stage said. The company said it would beef up security in the wake of the violation.

Video of a naked Jesse Williams captured onstage in a shower scene from a Broadway play has been posted online, prompting an outcry from the producers and ...

We are actively pursuing takedown requests and ask that no one participates in the distribution of these images.” Second Stage Theater, which is producing the revival, has been using Yondr pouches to protect the actors. Williams earned a Tony Award nomination Monday for playing the superstar.

Footage of Williams and Michael Oberholtzer performing a nude scene was released online earlier this week.

On Monday, footage taken on a cell phone of Williams, best known for his role on Grey’s Anatomy, and co-star Michael Oberholtzer performing a nude scene was leaked online. Take Me Out received four Tony nominations Monday, including Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for Ferguson, Oberholtzer and Williams. A Broadway theater told Deadline Wednesday it will install an infrared security system to monitor the audience for phone or camera usage after footage of one of its actors Jesse Williams performing a nude scene was leaked earlier this week.

Someone secretly shot video of Jesse Williams' full-frontal onstage nude scene and posted it. Here's how the 'Grey's Anatomy' veteran is handling it.

The theater said it was actively pursuing takedown requests and asked people not to participate in distribution of the video. “Taking naked pictures of anyone without their consent is highly objectionable and can have severe legal consequences,” Second Stage said in a statement. It is a violation that impedes our collective ability to tell stories with boldness and bravery.” It’s a body.” “It’s a body! The video circulated widely before efforts to scrub it gained ground.

Broadway's Take Me Out, a musical about the homophobia in baseball, only let audience members get one strike before sending them to the bullpen.

“Posting it on the internet is a gross and unacceptable violation of trust between the actor and audience forged in the theater community,” Second Stage said in a statement May 10. Audience members were already required to lock away their phones to prevent any filming, but it did not stop horny fans from venturing Yondr, a.k.a. finding a way to remove their phones from the locked pouches to sneak a picture. Second Stage Theater, home to Take Me Out, announced it will do a quick changeup and install an infrared camera to prevent any more bootlegs of the show from leaking online, in response to a leaked video of Jesse Williams nude during the performance going viral.

The Internet has been abuzz over the leaked nude scene of Jesse Williams from the play “Take Me Out.” While many are thirsting over the actor, ...

“I just have to make it not that big of a deal.” 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.” Hence, there’s a nude shower scene among the players.