NUDE NAKED NUDITY & BARE-ASSNESS
Friday, February 1st, 2008Harry is a halfway decent actor, but his real selling point when we cast him was that he was willing to be naked. He was willing to be naked when it was a brilliant groundbreaking adult comedy, and he was willing to be naked when it turned into a vapid sitcom. Hell, he was willing to be naked in rehearsals and willing to be naked at table reads and willing to be naked during lunch.
When we cast him, he’d been promised nude scenes. And as the pressures on him started to build, that promise was the only thing holding him together. All the poor kid wanted was to be completely nude in front of Dawn, Nancy, me, the crew, and millions of viewers. That’s all.
When we were prepping to shoot it, we got this:
Chalk it up to an innocent misunderstanding. I was wrong to think they wanted to keep the nudity when they had initially said this:
No nudity was bad. However, at this point I was used to the sponsor dropping these little nukes.
But I didn’t know how Harry would take it:
Telling Harry was hard for me. Because I been down to wardrobe already, and had seen the alternative to nudity that GFSBIEG&PP was imposing.
It was easy for Nancy - she’d stomp on a baby’s heart if it’d keep the trains running on time. She’s good like that.
(I love you Nancy, my characterization of your cruelty should not be construed as a rebuttal to your claims in our divorce proceedings. But whatever.)
