Someone took and leaked nude photos at Take Me Out — Page 2

According to the New York Times, new security cameras have been installed:

"The nonprofit theater presenting a starry Broadway revival of “Take Me Out” installed a new infrared camera on Wednesday to help its security team spot surreptitious camera usage by audience members after a video of a nude scene featuring the actor Jesse Williams circulated online.

Second Stage Theater, which is producing the much-praised production, was already requiring audience members to put their phones in locked pouches before the start of the show, but decided to add the additional security measures after someone managed to film and post to social media video showing Williams, an actor best known for “Grey’s Anatomy,” naked.

Peter Dean, the director of production for Second Stage, said the theater’s security team already had a camera view of the audience that it monitored before, during and after the play’s shower sequences, but that on Wednesday morning it had added a PTZ camera (the initials stand for pan, tilt, zoom) which would allow it to get a clearer image of individual audience members at the Hayes Theater, where “Take Me Out” is running.

“This will allow us to focus on an audience member who looks like they’re doing something suspicious, and assess whether they’re just going through a purse to get a breath mint or pulling out a phone,” Dean said."

I’m not sure why anyone else would want to record this when they can just look at the leaked photos/video available on the internet.

Lot666 said: "John Adams said: "I don't share the outrage some have expressed. Why would I be outraged by such an obviously inevitable event?"

Wow. So no action, no matter how heinous, merits outrage if one considers it an inevitability? If someone walks home through a dangerous neighborhood and is stabbed, shot, or raped, should there be no outrage because some might say the outcome was inevitable for anyone who walked through that neighborhood?"

I mean, this isn't the same has hovering outside someone's bedroom and taking a picture of them naked and posting that online. I guess there could be actors perfectly willing to appear nude onstage who would never think of being nude of film because the image could wind up all over the web whereas a stage performance is limited space and the performance isn't being preserved, but it would be a rare actor who makes that distinction. Nudity is one of this show's calling cards. Of course someone took a pic. Do I think it was a classy move? No. But expressing "outrage" over it seems a bit much.

It was likely taken through one of those small GoPro cameras that would be easy to sneak in. Disgusting nonetheless.

Just for clarification since I am obviously making an effort to avoid the content (which I unfortunately did already stumble upon without meaning to), was this a full bootleg that had been filmed, or was it specifically just intended to film the shower scene?


It’s not right either way considering the show’s content, but it feels extra scummy if this was only to exploit Jessie William’s nudity and not even capture the show itself.

Firstly, I don't at all condone what happened here.



Next - Whoopi's 100% correct on what she said. On top of that, this could have been filmed with somehting else other than a phone.



It's wrong what happened, but this show, the cast literally publicizes the nudity in it and the fact that JW is going to be naked on stage, LIterally every single piece of press, interview, etc, they emphasize it so heavily. And now everyone is so stunned that this took place? They were literally luring people in with the nudity and selling off of that.



Also, this whole incident definitely increased ticket sales heavily.



You can't go into this not expecting it to happen.

Security has not caught up with technology available to the average consumer. The issues here are broader than nude captures, since copyright infringement and attendant issues have bedevilled social media sites for at least two decades. We live in an all too easily recorded world*. We can best address this - as this site does, with unwavering vigilance - by policing the platforms that accommodate the illegal photos and video. I’m not convinced we can solve covert behavior in the house via surveillance; we’re still mastering a way to keep paper masks over all 1500 pairs of nostrils for two hours. But maybe I’m a cynic. *not long ago, a woman next to me at If/Then recorded baldly without any effort to halt her. I told her to put her phone away at intermission yet our her phone came again to record the penultimate number

bk said: "Can you even imagine what these disgusting women would be saying if this were a WOMAN in the video? These hypocrites would be screaming to the high heavens."

...and Whoopi said exactly that, so are they really that "disgusting", or "hypocrites"?

John Adams said: "As an aside, out of the context of leaking a video, Jessie Williams (IMO) looks TOO good to be a baseball player. (FYI, I've only seen the censored stills from the video) Most baseball players have "Dad bod" physiques. Absolutely nothing wrong with a Dad bod IMO... just sayin'."

Clearly, you haven't seen pics of Gabe Kapler from the late 90's, or Bryce Harper from now, for that matter.

Updated On: 5/11/22 at 08:46 PM

TaffyDavenport said: "Clearly, you haven't seen pics of Gabe Kapler from the late 90's, or Bryce Harper from now, for that matter."

...and you are correct, again!

Auggie27 said: "*not long ago, a woman next to me at If/Then recorded baldly without any effort to halt her. I told her to put her phone away at intermission yet our her phone came again to record the penultimate number"

I feel like this is more likely than secret button cams.