13 Actors Who Said "No Thanks" To Prosthetics And Went Full Commando On Screen

Alison added that her husband, Dave Franco, who directed and co-wrote the film, doesn't share the same love for public nudity. "I've spent years talking Dave into accepting my comfort with nudity," she said. "He's comfortable with me being nude at our home, but in public, he's more averse to it."  

He told Andy Cohen, "Everybody makes such a big deal. It's a body. Once you see it, you realize it's whatever." He continued, "It's a first so I have nothing to compare it to, and I won't be scared of anything after this, that's for sure."

He shared that he actually suffered from Michelangelo’s David Effect: “[David] wasn’t very well endowed, because he was fighting Goliath. There was very much of that effect. You tighten up like a hamster. The first time it happened, I turned around and went, ‘You know, there’s a thousand people here, and I don’t think even one of them would expect you to look your best in this situation.’”

Sydney has also spoken extremely highly of Euphoria's creator for listening to and respecting her feelings toward nudity: “Sam [Levinson] is amazing. There are moments where Cassie was supposed to be shirtless and I would tell Sam, ‘I don’t really think that’s necessary here.’ He was like, ‘OK, we don’t need it.’ I’ve never felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show. When I didn’t want to do it, he didn’t make me.”

He explained that the nudity wasn't purely to surprise the audience, because there was actually a creative reason behind it: "You have to put it in the context that this was 2006, 2007, and this hadn’t been done before, in my recollection, where the main guy was going to be naked in the first five minutes of the movie. There was a creative idea behind it, it wasn’t just for shock value."

In an interview with Vulture, he even shared that he was confused why there wasn't MORE male nudity in film. He said, "It just baffles me: Women can parade around naked all the time, but the guy conveniently has his pants on. I remember my mom always complaining about that to me, saying, 'This is such bullshit, it's always the women who are naked!' So I did this one for you, Mom!"

But years later she posed naked again for Harper's Bazaar; she opened up about the challenges she faced displaying her body: "My body has been through a lot over the past decade, particularly the past four years, and I have both the visible and invisible scars to show for it."

He said, "Why aren't men expected to do it? Why haven't men done it before? Does it show vulnerability? Does it exhibit this vestigial, puritanical shame over the human body and human intimacy?" He also doesn't see the big deal over nude bodies, and said, "People want to talk about my penis as if we’re a bunch of teenagers playing spin the bottle." He added, "This is the fifth film where I’ve had full-frontal male nudity. No one’s ever had such a fuss about it. It says something about our times and I wish people would get over it."