When I first heard about Take Me Out, and I just heard naked guys in a play, you sort of make assumptions that maybe it’s sort of gratuitous or not necessary. “there’s something about it, it’s so fully integrated into the play. “This has gotta be the smartest play that involves nudity,” Jesse says. It includes several nude scenes set inside the team’s locker room. The show first debuted off-Broadway in 2002, moving to Broadway a year later and eventually winning the Tony Award for Best Play. Patrick plays his teammate, Kippy Sunderstrom, who warns him against doing that.
In the show, he plays professional baseball player Darren Lemming, who decides to come out as gay. “Everything debuts, not a partial debut,” Jesse joked.
The two stars got candid about their Broadway debut in Take Me Out in an interview with ET.
