Jesse Williams

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 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.

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:

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.

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.”

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.

"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."

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.'

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.

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.

"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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Video and still images of a nude Jesse Williams taken during a Broadway performance began circulating earlier this week, prompting the Second Stage Theater ...

Prior to the leak, the theater was already taking precautions in an effort to ensure the “safety” of the play’s cast by partnering with Yondr — a company that makes cases with magnetic locks for smartphones and other electronic devices. We are actively pursuing takedown requests and ask that no one participates in the distribution of these images.” Williams is currently starring in a revival of “Take Me Out” at the venue.

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." The company said it would beef up security in the wake of the violation. Second Stage Theatre, which is producing the revival, has been using Yondr pouches to protect the actors.

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.

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg sprayed fellow host Sunny Hostin with water Wednesday when Hostin got a little too hot over actor Jesse Williams' leaked ...

“And truly, if nudity is what you are coming for…you are in for a long boring night,” he continued in a separate tweet. “Jesse Williams looks like a specimen,” Hostin gushed. “Taking naked pictures of anyone without their consent is highly objectionable and can have severe legal consequences,” the theater wrote. “I say it’s a matter of time,” Goldberg started. “It’s within a challenging 2 and a half hour play with big ideas, beautiful language & remarkable acting from a company of 11 actors that you will have to sit thru as well. He also responded to “The View” on Twitter Wednesday night, clarifying that he and Williams filmed the episode of “Watch What Happens Live” last week.