Evan Peters: Shooting American Horror Story Nude Scenes "Scared" Me

USMagazine, Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 4:30pm (PDT)

Evan Peters isn't entirely comfortable dropping trou on the eery FX series American Horror Story: Asylum. "It's a lot of butt. I got scared," the actor admits in an interview with New York Magazine's Vulture. "Unless I'm around certain people, I don't like to be naked."

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The 25-year-old wasn't given any warning before he was asked to disrobe on the small screen (including one torrid sex scene with a female costar in the Oct. 17 season premiere). "You pretty much get the script and find out that way," explains the actor, who's dating his Adult World costar Emma Roberts.

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If Peters' frequent nudity has made things awkward on set, he hasn't noticed. "I have a great picture of me naked on a bed just wearing a c-ck sock, and the crew is all around me, bored. We were all waiting for a film roll or a lens to arrive. So I'm just sitting around naked on the bed and everyone's so nonchalant," he recalls. "It was really weird for me, like, 'Man, this is awkward.'"

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Unlike Dylan McDermott, who frequently appeared nude during the show's first season, Peters says he isn't in tip-top shape. "He's smart," Peters says of his buff former costar, 50. "He had them bring him a gym on set. They hooked him up with a bench-press machine and all these free weights so he could work out in between takes. That dude was naked the whole time. I'd like to [ask for] that, but I'm not Dylan McDermott, so I can't be like, 'Give me a bunch of free weights,' you know?"

American Horror Story: Asylum airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. EST on FX.

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