Jesse Williams and Patrick J. Adams on Going Fully Nude for Their Broadway Debut (Exclusive)
etonline.comJesse Tyler Ferguson, Jesse Williams and Patrick J. Adams are following up their iconic roles – on, and, respectively – with a much anticipated turn on stage in the Broadway revival of.
While preparing for the show’s opening at the Hayes Theater in New York City after a two-year delay, the three actors open up to ET about going fully nude on stage, the timeliness of playwright Richard Greenberg’s drama 20 years later and if any of their famous co-stars will be in the audience.
That’s right, not only are Adams and Williams making their Broadway debuts but they’re doing it fully nude. “Everything debuts, [it’s] not a partial debut,” Williams quips about stripping down as a professional baseball player named Darren Lemming, who decides to come out as gay, opposite of Adams as his teammate, Kippy Sunderstrom, who warns him against that decision.
The production, which first debuted off-Broadway in 2002 before moving to Broadway a year later and eventually winning the Tony Award for Best Play, famously includes several nude scenes with the story set inside the team’s locker room. “This has gotta be the smartest play that involves nudity,” Williams says, with Adams explaining that “there’s something about it, it’s so fully integrated into the play.
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