
About 50 people stripped down early Saturday morning for Mary Walsh’s new TV show.
About 50 people of all ages and body types showed up in the buff at the St. John’s waterfront for a new TV arts show created by actor and director Mary Walsh. It was minus 11, with a wind chill of minus 15, but that didn’t deter the volunteers who showed up at 6 a.m. local time to strip down to their boots and scarves for the Saturday shoot.
“It was a little chilly, but liberating,” said psychology student Chrissy Vincent, 24, who bared it all. ”[It was] not as cold as I thought it would be.”
Walsh, the Newfoundland performer who starred in Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, is using shots of the bare backs and bottoms as part of her signoff for a new show she calls Nudity, Sexuality, Violence and Coarse Language. Walsh was hoping for 500 nude bodies but said she’s happy anyways. “It was really thrilling,” she said. ”It’s sort of like the Garden of Eden, but colder than I think it was in the Garden of Eden.”