American Gods Nude

American Gods Nude
Why one of the show's stars ended up with an 11-inch prosthetic unit. Also: Ricky Whittle reveals that co-star Ian McShane loves to use emojis and share GIFs when texting cast and producers.
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“ American Gods ” executive producer Bryan Fuller has a slogan idea for the network behind his new show: “Starz Loves Cockz.”
The series, which Fuller and Michael Green adapted from Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel, doesn’t shy away from anything – including ultraviolence and bold nudity. That includes both female and male scenes.
“We had to do the book justice,” Fuller recently told IndieWire’s Turn It On podcast. “They told us very early on that we could have nudity, and yet they were clear in not needing nudity if we didn’t [want] it. The only qualification was we should be equal opportunity nudists with the show. So we had a lot of penises.”
Fuller and Green, plus stars Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Pablo Schreiber, Yetide Badaki, Orlando Jones, Bruce Langley, and Crispin Glover, joined us on stage to discuss the show at a “For Your Consideration Event” presented by Starz at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center. Listen below!
(Warning: If you happen to be listening with any sensitive ears, the language does get explicit at times. This is a pretty adult show, if you’ve seen it.)
Stay tuned for close to the end of the conversation, when Fuller tells a raucous story about how actor Mousa Kraish, who plays the Arabic god Jinn, wound up with a rather hefty prosthetic penis.
“The fun part was coordinating with Mousa, whose penis was revealed in the third episode, and you’re dealing with two straight guys doing a gay sex scene,” Fuller said. “We got on the phone and said, our intention was to do a beautiful love scene between two men, and he was like, ‘OK, as long as its not exploitational, and as long as you give me a beautiful cock.’ The funny part was somehow the visual effects guy got it in his head that it’s an 11-inch cock… We sent this 11-inch cock to Mousa with a note – ‘How’s it hanging?’ – expecting him to be like, ‘Jesus Christ!’ But his only response was, ‘It looks good, but should be darker!'”
“American Gods” For Your Consideration event at the Television Academy
“American Gods” balances humor, drama, supernatural, violence, romance, and weighty subjects like immigration, religion and sexuality in a way that might be the most ambitious series of Fuller’s career. With Gaiman’s blessing, he and Green turned it into what IndieWire TV critic Ben Travers calls a “gorgeous, violent Americana infused supernatural drama.”
“We get to have an opportunity to tell compassionate immigration stories in this climate,” Fuller said. “There’s so much vilification right now of the immigrant experience and the immigrant story that we forget those are American legends. if you’re from a family that knows which generation arrived here, it’s a familial legend to how great grandpa or grandma traveled to America and found this place. Now we’re acting like every one just popped up here like mushrooms and it seems a little hypocritical.”
Said Badaki, who plays Bilquis, the Queen of Sheba: “I am an immigrant and the experience of this individual coming from this ancient place and finding herself in a new place and trying to find herself in this world really resonated with me.”
Among other tidbits gleaned from the panel: Ian McShane, who plays the charismatic Mr. Wednesday, loves to use emojis when he texts and emails producers, Green said. Whittle, who has bonded with McShane over their mutual love of Manchester United, takes it a step further.
“He texts me GIFs and I like to send him GIFs of himself,” Whittle said. “That’s how good Ian McShane is, I can send him GIFs of himself throughout his career!”
“American Gods” For Your Consideration event at the Television Academy
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Funny how equal opportunity nudity is male genitalia (even erect) but no female genitalia.
I agree, Terry. not sure how this fallacy got started. Female nudity is always of the T&A variety. Breasts are not genitalia. Don’t think I ‘ve ever seen a vulva on a TV show.
Some actresses who’ve done nudity want to see more male nudity, and I assume gay men also, but it’s not “equal opportunity” nudism.
Weird how this is getting perpetuated.
If these people really wanted to come across as hip or even courageous they would have made the penis like about 5 inches instead of the male fear of penis size which demands an 11 inches. Silly and immature to say the least. I tried this show and bailed mid thru the 2nd episode.
Pretty sure this show hasn’t shown a single vagina. Digital or otherwise.
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There are a lot of things to love about Starz’s new adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods . It’s stylish . It’s trippy . It’s proof that epic fantasy dramas can and should feature people of color . If we’re being honest, though, the best thing about the show is the sheer amount of quality dicks in it.
As anyone who’s read Gaiman’s original novel can tell you, sex features prominently in a number of key scenes throughout American Gods . Bilquis, the biblical Queen of Sheba, is depicted as a fallen goddess who periodically replenishes her “cunt-magic” by compelling people to worship her as they have sex before she literally sucks their entire bodies into her vagina. In another scene, Bast, an ancient Egyptian feline war goddess, heals the book’s main character Shadow with the restorative powers of her own supernatural lady bits.
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While scrolling through his dead girlfriend Laura’s (Emily Browning) phone, Shadow (Ricky Whittle) comes across a conversation she was having with best friend Robbie (Dane Cook.) While we already know that Laura and Robbie were having an affair, American Gods goes the extra mile to make this abundantly clear when Shadow scrolls up through the text thread and is shocked to see find a pic of Robbie’s decidedly vascular dick.
When we spoke with American Gods’ executive producers Bryan Fuller and Michael Green last March, they were quick to point out that while that’s not actually Dane Cook’s penis, the process of casting Robbie’s dick was like Madeleine Kahn in History of the World.
“I remember when we had penis photo approval,” Green said. “it was an e-mail and it was like ‘Here are eight penises you have to choose from.’”
Starz, Fuller explained, was adamant about not wanting American Gods to be seen as a “tits and ass show,” but was open to the show’s honest and and direct approach to depicting sex scenes.
“We knew there was going to be sexual content and we knew how we wanted to approach it,” Green added. “We’re going to show nude women, we should show nude men because we’re not trying to do something specifically for one audience or another. We are just depicting sex correctly.”
Compared to other premium cable networks, Starz has always been ahead of the game when it comes to getting penises on screen. Spartacus was an ancient Roman sausage fest , and who didn’t love watching 50 Cent masturbate on Power ? But where those dicks felt like titillating Easter eggs tossed in for inconsequential shock value, American Gods ’ dicks feel purposeful and integral to the plot.
Take Sunday night’s episode in which Salim (Omid Abtahi), an Iranian immigrant and salesman new to New York City, and an unnamed Jinn (Mousa Kraish) working as a cab driver who picks Salim up as a fare. During their trip uptown, the two men confide in one another that they’re unhappy with their lives, and Salim discovers just what the Jinn actually is.
Salim confesses he’s struggling to find meaningful work in his new home and the Jinn, a being who’s been alive for thousands of years, describes his longing for the old days when people still worshipped and told myths about his kind. At the end of their drive, the Jinn explains that he doesn’t actually grant wishes (anymore), but he offers Salim the next best thing: that dick.
The book describes Salim giving the Jinn a blowjob and tasting his “strange, fiery” semen, but the show? The show gives us a full-on metaphysical fuckfest complete with two fully erect penises and magical, fiery (internal) money shot that’s something like a religious experience.
Speaking to Vulture , Fuller revealed that he actually had to reshoot the sex scene after seeing an earlier version of it and determining that the mechanics of their intercourse just weren’t working on screen.
“I was like, ‘Okay, unless he has a 12-inch, candy-cane cock and can fuck around corners, his dick’s not getting in him,” Fuller said. “So you guys need to go back and figure out where holes are.”
Nearly every single one of American Gods ’ sex scenes features a dick or two, in contrast to just 10 penises on television last year across six different shows . All of the dicks we’ve noted here are from just two episodes of this series, last week’s “The Secret of Spoon” and last night’s “Head Full of Snow.”
There are still six more episodes of American Gods to go this season and we’ll report back on any and all future peen-related developments. You know. For art.

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This post contains spoilers from Season 1, Episode 1 of American Gods , ”The Bone Orchard.” If you want a more general look at the show, you can check out our early review here . Otherwise, hold on to your crimson bedsheets: it’s about to get explicitly spoilery in here. Don’t say Czernobog didn’t warn you.
Partway through the first episode of American Gods , creators Bryan Fuller and Michael Green let audiences know exactly __what to expect, sexual content-wise, from Starz’s latest foray into the world of fantasy prestige TV. Putting the much-ballyhooed sexual gymnastics of Westeros to shame, American Gods presents a feast for the eyes in the shape of Yetide Badaki’s goddess character, Bilquis, devouring her helpless, worshipful sexual partner in the midst of their first assignation. And, no, she doesn’t use her mouth to do it. That scene is even crazier in the book by Neil Gaiman , but Fuller and Green pulled out all manner of technical trickery to make it play so well on TV.
The scene comes early enough in the season to signal viewers what they might expect in the future of American Gods . (This certainly isn’t the last artfully shot, jaw-dropping sexual encounter of Season 1.) But the Bilquis scene comes even earlier in the book—before the end of the first chapter, in fact. Instead of being a poor, duped victim of Internet dating gone awry, as he is on the show, Bilquis’s victim in the book is a crude “John”—and she, in the parlance of the novel, is a “hooker.” You have much less sympathy for the book victim when she gulps him down.
Almost everything else goes similarly in both novel and show. Bilquis asks to be worshipped; her partner obliges, and chants phrases that no John (or poor Internet Dater) could possibly know. And then:
He feels a lurch, and it seems to him that he is hanging, head down, although the pleasure continues. He opens his eyes. . .This is what he sees: He is inside her to the chest, and as he stares at this in disbelief and wonder she rests both hands upon his shoulders and puts gentle pressure on his body. . .
He feels the lips of her vulva tight around his upper chest and back, constricting and enveloping him. He wonders what this would look like to somebody watching them. . .“I worship you with my body,” he whispers, as she pushes him inside her. Her labia pulls slickly across his face and he slips into darkness.
Perhaps it’s my misinterpretation, but when Gaiman writes “it seems to him that he is hanging,” I always envisioned Bilquis’s client literally dangling between her legs. That’s a visual the show would have had a very hard time making look realistic rather than cartoonish. Instead, Bilquis devours her man on a red-sheeted bed that the American Gods production team outfitted with both a trap door and a hidden compartment. The scene combined visual special effects with some carefully-timed choreography to create the episode’s most stunning tableau, even in a premiere crammed with visual delights.
When I spoke with Bilquis herself, Yetide Badaki , at Comic-Con last summer, the actress described filming the scene with an excited gleam in her eye. As a lifelong fan of Neil Gaiman’s work, she said she knew how important it was for her entrance to convey both tragedy and frightening divine power. During the Comic-Con panel earlier in the day, star Ricky Whittle joked that they had nicknamed Badaki’s nether regions “Joy” during filming. When I got technical and asked her if the nickname was required because there was some kind of prosthetic involved in the scene, Badaki told me with a grin, “No prosthetic. I think that you start to envision it in your mind, but I don’t think you see Joy—as far as I know.”
That scene—which easily could have been cut—belongs in both the show and the first chapter of Gaiman’s novel for a very good reason. And, no, it’s not so American Gods can win some unofficial sexual arms race with Game of Thrones and Outlander. What we learn in this scene is that a) gods are real, b) they are diminished in power (we see Bilquis looking slightly faded before she absorbs her victim), and c) they are willing to stoop to trickery to get the vitality they need from their worshippers. Essentially, in this scene, we are seeing a blueprint of what’s to come in the show, all tied up in a very alluring crimson-hued package.
For those unfamiliar with every nook and cranny of myth and legend, Bilquis—also called Bilqis or Balkis or Makeda—was the legendarily beautiful and uncommonly wise Queen of Sheba. Legend has it she is at least half djinn (or genie). In both the Bible and the Koran, she meets with—and is not outwitted by—King Solomon of Israel. Bilquis doesn’t have a massive role to play in the novel American Gods ; she has this unforgettable scene and another, even more tragic one. But according to Badaki, the role has been expanded for the TV series. So be on the lookout for some more insane sexual encounters. Something tells me you won’t miss them.
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