It's in His Kiss ; After Years of Being Asked to Strip Off for Roles, Patrick Wilson Swore He Would Wait for a Fully Clothed Part. It Was Worth It He's Perfect As the Phantom of the Opera's Hero Raoul, Says Louise Gannon, Although He Does Have One Topless Scene...

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Eleven months ago, Patrick Wilson had a problem. His model looks, athletic build and powerful singing voice had opened doors on Broadway and the small screen since he left drama school at 18. But by the age of 30, although his talent had earned him an Emmy nomination, he realised the parts that he was being offered all required something that most actors never have to consider full nudity.

Wilson's chiselled cheeks flush slightly as he says, 'Put it this way, my New Year's resolution in 2003 was to stop taking my clothes off. It was getting ridiculous.' When he was cast alongside Al Pacino and Meryl Streep in the award-winning miniseries Angels in America, he was warned the show included a beach scene in which he had to strip off entirely. 'Al Pacino and Meryl Streep soon got to know everything about me,' he says in his laid-back Virginian drawl. 'And soon after that, it was The Full Monty on Broadway.

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It's in His Kiss ; After Years of Being Asked to Strip Off for Roles, Patrick Wilson Swore He Would Wait for a Fully Clothed Part. It Was Worth It He's Perfect As the Phantom of the Opera's Hero Raoul, Says Louise Gannon, Although He Does Have One Topless Scene...

'I knew it had to stop. I didn't care how small a role I was offered, as long as I was going to be fully clothed.' The romantic lead as the wealthy young patron Vicomte Raoul de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera was a part Wilson thought too good to be tr...

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