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Jesse Williams has spoken out regarding the leak of a nude scene from his Broadway revival of Take Me Out, saying that he’s “not down” about it. “Our job is to go out there every night, no matter what…I’m not really worrying about it. I can’t sweat that,” Williams told The Associated Press on Thursday at their event, T…

Following the leak on social media of cell phone video and photos of a naked Jesse Williams, star of Broadway’s Take Me Out, the venue has installed an infrared camera system facing the audience that will be monitored in real time by the venue’s security team, a spokesperson for the show tells Deadline. The cell phone…

Actors' Equity is blasting an audience member who secretly videotaped Jesse Williams’ nude scene while performing in Take Me Out at the Second Stage Theater in NYC and then released it on Twitter. Equity called it an act of “sexual harassment and an appalling breach of consent.” The NYC theater, which collects…

EXCLUSIVE: Japril will be back on Grey’s Anatomy. Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew are set to reprise their roles as Jackson and April in the Season 18 finale of the ABC medical drama, which airs May 26. Williams departed Grey’s Anatomy last spring after 12 seasons. His character Jackson Avery's exit was revealed in the…

Some good news from Broadway: Take Me Out, the well-received revival of Richard Greenberg’s baseball play, has extended its run by two weeks at Second Stage's Hayes Theater. The comedy-drama, starring Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams, will now run through Saturday, June 11. The extension…

If the last week in our entertainments has shown us anything, it’s that even the most ordered, traditional of ceremonies can be disrupted by an unkind explosion of id, with ramifications splashing like crocodile tears on even the most unexpected of our heroes. Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play that charts the…

Jesse Williams may have found his next series. The Grey’s Anatomy alum has been tapped as a lead opposite Aubrey Plaza and Ramón Rodríguez in Olga Dies Dreaming, Hulu's one-hour drama pilot based on the novel by Xochitl Gonzalez. The pilot for Olga Dies Dreaming, written by Gonzalez and to be directed by Alfonso…

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Greenberg's Tony Award-winning play Take Me Out, about baseball and homophobia, is set to be adapted as a limited television series. Grey's Anatomy and Little Fires Everywhere star Jesse Williams will lead the adaptation, which comes from Anonymous Content. Greenberg will adapt his play for the…

Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams have confirmed their return to the Broadway production of Take Me Out when the Richard Greenberg play begins performances next March. The trio had been set to star in the Second Stage Theater production with a pre-pandemic opening of April 2020. The cast has…

EXCLUSIVE: Grey’s Anatomy alum Jesse Williams will star in Paramount Pictures' high-concept family action movie Secret Headquarters in what we’re hearing is the role of the villain. The pic, scheduled to hit theaters on August 12, 2022, is described as Home Alone set in the Batcave. Williams joins a cast that includes…

In a Grey’s Anatomy season of many shockers, one of the biggest came earlier this month when Deadline reported that longtime cast member star Jesse Williams was departing the hit ABC medical drama after 12 seasons. The same night, in the episode "Look Up Child," Williams’ character, Jackson Avery, who had had grown…

SPOILER ALERT: This post includes information about the latest episode of Grey’s Anatomy, “Tradition.” Dr. Jackson Avery has officially checked out of Grey Sloan Memorial. Jesse Williams made his final appearance in the long-running ABC medical drama in Tradition, an episode filled with emotional goodbye’s and…