Jesse Williams Broadway photos

2022 - 5 - 11

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Jesse Williams' Broadway nude scene posted online, prompting ... (CBC.ca)

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 ...

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 Theater, which is producing the revival, has been using Yondr pouches to protect the actors.

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'Take Me Out' Theater Pursuing Take Down Requests, Will Add ... (Hollywood Reporter)

Second Stage Theater to add more staff, pursue take down requests after nude photo of Jesse Williams in 'Take Me Out' publishes online.

“And truly, if nudity is what you are coming for … you are in for a long boring night,” he tweeted. “The audience might be looking at whatever they’re looking at but are they following what’s going on between these guys?” “As actors, we regularly agree to be vulnerable onstage in order to tell difficult and challenging stories,” the statement from president Kate Shindle continued. “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,” the statement reads. The theater also announced it is “actively pursuing takedown requests” and has asked that the public refrains from distributing any previously posted images. posting it on the internet is a gross and unacceptable violation of trust between the actor and the audience forged in the theater community.”

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Leaked Video of Jesse Williams's Staged Nude Scene Denounced ... (The New York Times)

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.

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson says he's 'appalled' by leak of Jesse Williams ... (USA TODAY)

"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."

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Someone Sneaked a Phone Into Jesse Williams's Broadway Debut (The Cut)

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.

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Jesse Williams memes populate Twitter after nude Broadway ... (NBC News)

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.

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