Jesse Williams’ nude footage from his Broadway show has leaked

After naked photographs and footage of the star of Broadway’s Take Me Out began circulating online late Monday night, Jesse Williams, fresh off his first Tony nomination, became a trending topic. The video went viral on Twitter only hours after he was nominated for a Tony Award for outstanding performance by a featured actor in a play.

Williams plays a successful homosexual baseball player who confronts personal and professional consequences after coming out at the height of his career. The Grey’s Anatomy alum is naked at one point in the performance, which “terrified” Williams at first. He told Page Six,  “But then I noted that that was what I asked God for.”

Added,  “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.”

The Hayes Theater at Second Stage mandates all ticket holders to store their phones in sealed Yondr cases before the event to safeguard Williams and the play’s other naked actors from nosy audience members.

According to the theater’s website, guests may keep their phones as long as they are locked “out of respect and support for our actors and in order to create a phone-free space.”

Williams discussed the nudity during an interview on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on Monday, which was purportedly taped before the leak. When questioned about the reaction of the crowd to his nuance.

As Williams said, “A non-reaction is a really interesting reaction. The quiet, you know. Creates a lot of insecurity.”

The actor continued, saying, “I don’t like any of it. 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.”

The New York Daily News quoted Patrick J. Adams, who portrays one of Williams’ colleagues, as saying that removing phones from the crowd was “been a magical experience, just getting everyone off their phone for two hours.”

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