'Westworld' star's reaction to the show's full-frontal nudity: 'Wow, you can see it all'

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March 15, 2017 4:14 PM

"Westworld" actor Leonardo Nam tells Business Insider what it was like when he realized how much nudity he'd have to work with on HBO's hit show.

Thandie Newton as Maeve and Leonardo Nam as Felix Lutz on HBO's "Westworld."

Leonardo Nam says he wasn't totally prepared for the immense amount of nudity in HBO's "Westworld."

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"I remember thinking the scene was just going to be in a medical-like room — no windows or anything like that," Nam told Business Insider in a recent interview. "Just the other actor, myself, and Thandie. And then I go on the set and everything was glass. And I thought, 'Wow, you can see it all, you can see into the other rooms,' and then I saw the other extras and other bodies that were there."

HBO kept a tight lid on details about "Westworld" during the nearly two years of production on the show's first season. But the public got an early peek into the show when a contract for extras leaked and showed that sex and nudity would play big roles in the show.

"I started to think, 'Oh, OK, there's like 100, 200 extras, and they're all naked,'" he said. "And once you start to understand what it is that the show is doing, you really do put on the hat of a professional on the set, and you just go with that."

Newton, who is an outspoken advocate of women's rights and a victim of sexual abuse

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