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Brendan Fraser has said he had an "absolutely scary" experience after being told to strip off to film a nude scene with Matt Damon in School Ties.
The 54-year-old actor had his breakthrough in 1992 with his leading role in the film, playing Jewish high school student David who gets an athletic scholarship to an elite school.
In one scene, Matt's character Dillon tells the rest of the football team that David is Jewish, leading them to fight in the showers.
During an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Brendan was asked: "Your naked, Matt's naked and then you guys fight in the shower and you're wrestling. Were you guys fully nude?"
Brendan replied: "Oh yes, I was absolutely.
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Brendan and Matt starred alongside each other in School Ties (Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)"It was scary, it's scary to do that and when you're an actor and you're starting off, you're ambitious and game for pretty much anything.
"They say jump, you say how high?"
He added: "But at the same time I appreciated that this isn’t really for wow or a scintillating factor of going, 'Hey, look at that. Naked people.'
"The point of it was that when Damon's character says what he says about David, he just reveals who he is. His anti-Semitism and his prejudice is stripped down naked and it’s ugly.
Brendan admitted the scene was 'scary' to film (Getty Images for SiriusXM)"The door is locked and they fight over it like shaved apes that need to be pulled apart because they've run out of things to say to one another, and it just turns into an ugly knuckle-dusting fit.
"That's the point of the scene, really."
Host Howard joked: "If someone said to me, 'Listen this is the role of a lifetime but you have to fight nude', I'd have to turn down the role.
"I'm not confident in that area, I'm just not. I admire your confidence."
Brendan has been nominated for a Best Actor award at the Oscars for his leading role in his comeback film The Whale.
The star admitted that the film has "profoundly changed my life" as he thanked the cast and crew for their support in making the movie.
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In The Whale, Brendan plays an obese and reclusive teacher called Charlie who is struggling to reconnect to his estranged daughter (Sadie Sink).
"I wouldn't have this nomination without Darren Aronofsky, Samuel D Hunter, A24 and the extraordinary cast and crew who gave me the gift of Charlie," Brendan told the PA news agency.
He added that it was "a gift I certainly didn’t see coming, but it's one that has profoundly changed my life."