I tried to get into acting fulltime but only managed to get very small parts in stage plays. I figured if I kept doing this I would get noticed, make connections and have my big break. Then it happened. I was offered a larger part than what I was used to and immediately called my mother to tell her the good news. There were a few weeks of rehearsals but it was a few days before opening night when I was asked if I had ever been nude on stage before. I told them I hadn't and was told not to be nervous. The next day we were having a dress rehearsal and they told me I would have a couple of days to get used to being nude on stage. I went home and looked at the agreement I signed and it mentioned that I would be required to be nude. I guess when I accepted the role I was so excited I hadn't read the agreement too closely. I was put in a position where if I didn't do it now that I would probably get a bad reputation for backing out. If I go ahead I would be putting myself on display for everyone to see and I wasn't very comfortable doing that. I decided I would go through with it. During the rehearsal I walked on stage naked with all the other actors and actresses seeing me that way for the first time. I managed to force my way through it without showing any sign of embarrassment or nervousness even though I was so wanting to run off stage. The next night of rehearsal was no easier. It was now opening night and I was extremely terrified of the thought of a whole audience seeing me naked but I did it. I stepped out on stage as naked as the day I was born and with the bright lights shining down on me I couldn't see the audience but knew they could see me. Not being able to see them made it a little easier but not by much.
After the performance I was told a few people wanted to meet me and they brought them backstage. It was my mother and a few of her friends who decided to surprise me and came to the show. There were comments made about me on stage nude by them.
It was so embarrassing to now know that my mother and her friends had seen me naked but I knew I couldn't do anything about it now. My mother didn't seem as concerned about it as I thought she might be and told me it was my body. The nude performances did eventually become easier and it did help me get noticed and get other acting jobs.
I did make an error in my career which basically ended it. I did a nude photo shoot and was convinced to perform a few acts which ended up appearing in a porn magazine. I was offered a role in a porn video from that appearance which paid very well and figured I really needed the cash and the exposure could help my acting career. I was labelled a porn actor from that point onwards and couldn't get any more of the acting jobs I was wanted. Needing cash I appeared in a few more porn videos doing things I never really expected I would ever do. Those additional videos sealed my fate.
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Anonymous / August 6, 2016