Jesse Williams nude Broadway leak branded ‘sexual harassment and appalling breach of consent’
metro.co.uktrended on social media earlier this week after footage of him full-frontal nude during a Broadway production of play Take Me Out emerged online.While former Grey’s Anatomy star Williams had previously shrugged off the scene by claiming ‘it’s just a body’, an actors’ organisation has blasted the person who filmed the footage – which went against house rules.The act was also labelled ‘both sexual harassment and an appalling breach of consent.’Much of Take Me Out – written by Richard Greenberg and currently on at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York – is set in the locker room of a professional baseball team, with an all-male cast that explores themes of homophobia, racism, class, and masculinity in sports.Williams plays Darren Lemming, a mixed-race baseball star, who comes out as gay and is confronted with homophobic and racist prejudices off the field.Kate Shindle, president of the Actors’ Equity Association, which is made up of 51,000 members of the theatre industry, said in a statement: ‘We condemn in the strongest possible terms the creation and distribution of photographs and videos of our members during a nude scene.‘As actors, we regularly agree to be vulnerable onstage in order to tell difficult and challenging stories.
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.
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