The Perfect Picture: Actor Filip Peeters Goes Nude for Play 4

“Our job was to take a nude picture, and we got models for that. But there was also a deadly sin attached to it. I got vanity. How do you show that? That’s just the question you get sometimes as an actor: can you play vanity or stinginess? That is impossible. You can only play active verbs. Such as ‘walking’ or ‘waiting’. And so I thought: I would have photographed myself, instead of my nude model. That seemed very vain to me. But that meant I had to be naked.

there, nothing to do, short pain: remove the pants, and then insert my model as well. I stood there in my naked rags. Luckily I was able to hide it behind the camera and the camera was big enough. (laughter) Is it easier as an actor to overcome your shyness? No matter, I think. You throw yourself over the edge for a good photo, even if it makes you vulnerable. So those pants have to come off, it’s that simple. What helped: I had made a bet with the deliverer Manu Van Acker. Do you want to promise three shrimp croquettes at Bistrot Du Nord in Antwerp that I want? He didn’t believe it. Well, we have now started eating them, the best shrimp croquettes in the world. At his expense.” (laughter)