The Full Monty came out 12 years ago, meaning it has been over a decade since Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and co formed their own striptease act and got naked on stage.
Basically, Sheffield’s answer to Magic Mike…
But it turns out that, while the audience didn’t actually see any nudity, the cast took off everything – including their hats – for a room full of shocked extras, who had no idea they were going all the way.
Discussing filming for the infamous scene, Hugo Speer admitted: ‘The climactic scene was nuts. It was in a very cold working men’s club, starting at about midday. The makeup and costume girls knew how we were feeling, so they were thrusting glasses of alcohol into our hands between takes.
‘The extras had smuggled in booze, too. They weren’t aware we were going to go all the way – that was a bit of smarts on the producers’ part, so it was a completely natural reaction they got at the end.
‘I genuinely enjoyed myself: how often does that sort of thing happen in your life?’
Director Peter also revealed the Full Monty stars had only agreed to do one take of them naked on stage, which means everything had to be on point.
‘We shot the final stripping sequence in one day, halfway through the schedule. Had we left it for the end it would have become A Thing, making everyone tense,’ he added to the Guardian. ‘In the script, the final reveal was written as a full-frontal naked star jump. I knew we wouldn’t be able to show any genitals, so I tried to be clever.’
And so the iconic moment – showing just a row of bums – was born.
While Hugo had a blast on set, the same can’t be said for some of his co-stars.
In fact, Robert – who played Gaz in the movie – branded the whole experience a ‘load of f***ing pish’.
‘I thought it was a load of f***ing pish, to be honest with you. It was a tough shoot, the Full Monty was a tough shoot, it really was,’ he explained, during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
‘It was so horrible that when Fox / Searchlight – who made it – saw the first cut, they sent it straight to video. It was just very, very tough.’
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