JC: I said, you know on IMDB there’s a huge thread on the message board of Toy Soliders that talks about the underwear scenes. I hate to break it to you, but it’s the longest thread on the Toy Soliders message board.
KC: It’s just kind of – oh god, I love how you put it, “The longest thread on the Toy Soldiers message board.” The longest thread on there. So I have actually gotten quite a bit of fan mail from that scene or from those scenes. So here’s the thing, we’re supposed to be guys in a room with no electricity, no heat, no air, no whatever, and it’s five of us – seven of us in a room that’s supposed to bunk two. It was hot. It’s Virginia. So we’re like, “All right, everyone’s going to be in like wife beaters and your boxers, your underwear,” whatever. Well we also made character choices, and I made a character choice that Snuffy Bradberry wore corduroys, deck shoes, and tighty whities. Some are going to wear black, others got boxers, and everyone’s got to have their own character, so my choice was tighty whities.
Well, because of that choice there’s nothing there, there’s nothing added, I’m not stuffing or anything like that. I’m not horribly excited about messing with Wil Wheaton either, I didn’t get turned on by that, but in that scene I look like I’m packing. Something’s up there. I don’t know, it does look like I’m rather well-hung. That could be real or that could be the appearance. But yes, that scene, they’re like, “God,” everyone’s – and then they’re like, “Keith, you’ve got quite a bulge there.”
So that, yeah, I’ve gotten a little bit of fan mail from that. We were unaware of any homoerotic, you know, indications or anything like that, but I have a good gay fan base and they certainly cite that scene; they’re like, “You look yummy in Toy Soldiers.” Thank you very much, so buy a ticket.
Interview with Wil Wheaton on Toy Soldiers:
JL: In the movie "Toy Soldiers," do think there were too many gratuitous scenes with guys hanging out in their underwear?
WW: Well, turn it around: in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," were there too many gratuitous shots of hot girls running around in their underwear?
Awesome interview.
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Wow! Thanks for including the interview. Awesome hearing him talk about the scene. He definitely filled out his briefs well.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the interview. I've seen numerous threads on IMDB where someone thinks because they have a scene with a guy in his underwear then the film was supposed to be homoerotic or have a "gay agenda" or the director must have been a perv. Even an innocent children's movie like Bless The Beasts and The Children has been accused of being pornographic because it showed guys at a summer camp in their underwear.
ReplyDeleteDid they ever think that maybe a movie was just trying to show what real life is like. Not everyone stays fully dressed around the house 24/7. At least when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, boys older than 10 or 11 often slept in underwear rather than pajamas. My best friend lived in his briefs and he didn't put pants on when friends came over. He was also the "straightest" guy you could ever meet.
Keith looked great in those blue ones.
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