Not everyone respects or considers it as they should, or as we would like.”įor its part, the theater company has roundly condemned the violation of the privacy of its actors: “Second Stage Theater has worked to ensure the privacy of the ‘Take Me Out’ company by creating a space free of telephones with sealed envelopes in all representations,” says the official statement on Twitter published after the incident. Theater is a sacred space and not everyone understands that. And it’s wonderful to see a community push and make it clear what we stand for and what we don’t. I can’t.” To which he adds: “What we do have to do is continue to stand up for each other. Our job is to go out on stage every night, no matter what happens. The interpreter, who has received praise for his courageous performance on stage, has played down the matter in statements to The Associated Press: “I’m not too down about it. The commotion caused by the images was enormous (we will not share them here out of respect for the actors and the theater) and after a few days, Williams has spoken about it. Despite the express prohibition of taking photographs or videos in the theater, for which spectators were forced to keep their phones in a special envelope, a spectator recorded the actor during a scene in which he and his partner cast, Michael Oberholtzer, appeared totally nude and uploaded it to the Internet. If you have been on the Internet in recent days, you have probably heard that Jesse Williams, the actor who plays Jackson Avery in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, has been the victim of his nude leak during the performance of his new play by theater on Broadway, ‘Take Me Out’.