Jesse Williams Discussses Sharing Nudity On Broadway Amid Viral Video Leak

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Jesse Williams‘ name has recently experienced a spike in buzz and searches due to his appearance in Take Me Out on Broadway, but not just for his moving Tony Award-nominated performance.

Williams currently stars in the limited engagement revival of Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play about a fictional bi-racial professional baseball player publicly coming out of the closet.

Taking the lead as Darren Lemming, the player at the center of the story, the actor appears in full-frontal nudity alongside several other actors at multiple points during the production, which largely takes place inside the team’s locker room.Audience members attending the production at New York’s Second Stage Theater are required to lock their phones away in Yondr pouches – special lock bags crafted for private, phone-free events that prevent access to the devices until they are unlocked upon exiting – per the venue’s requirements.

However, upon the announcement of the Tony Award nominations on Monday, video and photos captured via mobile phone from the audience singling out Williams during a nude shower scene were posted to social media, quickly becoming viral.