Jonathan Bailey reveals how he picked out perfect prosthetic genitals to film new role

Jonathan Bailey 'chose his own fake genitals' while filming Fellow Travelers.Source: Late Night with Seth Meyers, NBC

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00:00You had to choose a prosthetic penis.

00:01Yes. So obviously for us, it's a kind of, you know, mundane thing to talk about these sex scenes,

00:06but I know it's fascinating, but we are, you know, there's so many things that change with Tim,

00:10the character that I play, his, you know, he grew his hair, he had different hair,

00:13he had moustaches and he had, but there's one thing that remained the same throughout.

00:16Yeah.

00:19And when, when we started, obviously you wear a protective layer, obviously to protect yourself

00:26and so it's not good, but for the nature of the show, you want to choose something that

00:29maybe reflects what's actually going on.

00:31So is this, is this how they laid him out for you?

00:36Yeah, this was one of my first days on set and,

00:40you know, they've all got their different personalities.

00:42I knew that, they really do.

00:44When you're, when you're approaching character, you think emotionally,

00:46cerebrally and, you know, then you have to really make a big choice.

00:51Is that what you did? You made the big choice?

00:52No, no, no. I, I think it's only for, I believe in representation for everyone.

00:59Yeah.