Beckford on stripper film: ‘I don’t mind showing my package’
By Josh Haggis
Tyson Beckford has admitted that he is open to the idea of full-frontal nudity in his upcoming film, urban stripper drama Chocolate City.
In the forthcoming film, veteran supermodel Beckford will play an aging stripper who is hired to share his expertise with some of the rising stars of the male stripping world.
“I do realise that probably for the last 22 years women have wanted to see the package,” Beckford told Instinct. “I have no problem showing it. I don’t know if we are going to do any frontal, but I don’t care – I am not shy.”
Rapper and former Nickelodeon star Lil’ Romeo is set to star in Chocolate City as an amateur stripper keen to learn the tricks of the trade, while Michael Jai White (Why Did I Get Married?, Tyson) will appear as a strip club owner.
Beckford, 43, who made his name modelling for Polo Ralph Lauren in the 1990s, has previously appeared in films including Ben Stiller’s 2001 comedy Zoolander 2005’s Into The Blue alongside Jessica Alba. He posed for the cover of Attitude in September 2012.
Chocolate City will be released at a yet-be-announced date in 2015.
Meanwhile, Zac Efron has hinted that he is up for appearing in another film about male stripping, the sequel to 2012’s Magic Mike, which is also due in 2015. Find out more here.