For Andrew Barth Feldman, a 21-year-old musical theatre actor making his major-movie debut, saying yes to the ribald Jennifer Lawrence comedy No Hard Feelings was a no-brainer… once he got used to knowing absolutely everyone would see him in his birthday suit.
“When you first become an actor, in your head you can’t help but wonder, like, ‘Would I ever get naked for a movie?’,” he whispers, as if letting me in on an industry secret. “Like if I ever get asked to… would I be comfortable doing that?” To cut a long story short, he was. That is indeed him clinging to the top of a speeding vehicle as naked as the day he was born. Still, he had the last-minute jitters. “We had intimacy coordinators, it was a closed set, and it was truly as safe as it could be but just as a bodily thing, it was so, so weird. It’s like your whole body exists for the movie.” He was just relieved his nudity was meant to be ridiculous. “Oh god, if the whole world had to swoon over me, I’d be like, you definitely should have found somebody else.”
