Naked dude11/5/2023 ![]() ![]() I was like, "I don't even know what the story is. Then Jonathan Watson brings me into his trailer and he’s like, "So you want to wear the prosthetic penis?" I hadn't read anything. Yes, no problem." And then I got to set, and on the first day when I was getting my hair dyed, Tim came over and he introduced himself so graciously and Edi as well. They were like, "Are you comfortable wearing a prosthetic penis?" I was like, "I would do fucking anything to be on this show. Stephen: When I knew that I was up for the part, I got a third phone call right before they closed the deal. And he'd pull me aside, and he'd give me hints about how they were going to film it and what the stunts would look like. Jonathan Watson, who was directing it, I would see him every once in a while on set. What were your first impressions reading it? ![]() We got Tim Baltz and Stephen Schneider on the line to chat about what it was like to film the wildest TV scene of the year. Like most jokes in the Danny McBride universe, it’s both deeply funny and an unexpectedly searing exploration of masculinity and its discontents. BJ ultimately prevails, but not before some nude man fighting that goes down in history somewhere between the Eastern Promises bathhouse fight scene and the Northman volcano fight scene. He barges into Stephen’s home, brass knuckles in hand, only to find his romantic rival naked and pleasuring himself to Kenny Rogers’s song “Daytime Friends.” BJ ostensibly has the upper hand (no pun intended), until the frosted-tipped, tramp-stamped, and completely naked Stephen brutally thrashes around. When the affair comes to light, passive BJ decides to kick Stephen’s ass once and for all. ![]() To summarize, Judy Gemstone (Edi Patterson) has been two-timing her husband BJ (Tim Baltz) with Stephen (Stephen Schneider), a guitarist on her Judy on Top tour. Forget the shock value attempted by other HBO shows this year-this was the first time I can remember thinking, Are you even allowed to do that on TV? But there was a scene in season three, episode six, "For Out of the Heart Comes Evil Thoughts,” that left me both convulsing in laughter and completely lost for words. Danny McBride’s HBO comedy about the familial dramas roiling an evangelical megachurch has never been one to shy away from hanging dong. We’re in a golden age of male full-frontal nudity on television, in no small part thanks to the brave contributions of The Righteous Gemstones. ![]()
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