But, for Neil Patrick Harris, the scene proved tricky for a number of reasons. I needed to make sure no one really saw my wang,' he told Conan O'Brien on an interview on Friday.'You don't mind a little hint of the wang but you don't want a long long moment with the wang.
So you're conscious of that. You're like, fine if you see my butt and stuff like that, but don't get the camera too low,' he added. 'There were moments it was disarming - your butt is out there. There's the camera crew and that's your butt.'
And the scene proved intense, with Neil revealing he and Rosamund took 'two days straight' to film it.
'Honestly, I was more concerned about Rosamund Pike - I just wanted to make sure that - in her own state of disrobedness - she felt comfortable and didn't feel weird,' he said. The film, which stars Ben Affleck as a husband desperate to find his vanished wife Amy (Pike) sees Neil play Amy's rather sinister ex-boyfriend Desi Collings.
'So you go to work nude and come home nude,' Conan asked. It wasn't like we were in the musical Hair or something, just dancing around totally naked,' laughed Neil who revealed he had also performed a nude scene on stage in Jon Robin Baitz play The Paris Letter several years previously.
'It was with Josh Radnor who was on How I Met Your Mother - played Ted,' Neil recalled. 'It was a flashback scene in the 70s where I had seduced him and we had just had sex and the scene starts with him coming on naked, nervous, and "What have I done?" Then I kind of saunter on as well naked.'
With five successful hosting stints under his belt, Neil Patrick Harris has been chosen to work his magic on the Academy Awards on February 22.
He recently shared his ideas for shaping the show, telling Entertainment Weekly on the magazine's Sirius FM channel 'I want to just make sure that it’s a classy event.'
'I’ve always loved the Oscars and have great respect for its history, and the gowns, and the classiness of it,' he said.
'And I loved (previous hosts) Johnny Carson and Billy Crystal and honoring the gravity of it without getting heavy and boring. I have no idea how to balance that, but that’s going to be the task ahead.'
