Pecsploitation.

If it all fails; Suzuki, The Method, Stanislavski, Uta, Strassberg, Sabatine or whatever technique you choose to utilize in your Acting remember that you have one layer left to strip away that will reveal your character's truth, and that's your shirt. Button down, baseball, pullover, tee, tank, tux the type doesn't matter, what matters is removing it and you will have found honesty. Honesty is regularly mined here in Hollywood. It's a quality we treasure in our daily lives. We search for integrities in gutters and depth on a couch. If you open your shirt, you have just guaranteed yourself an audience and justification.

Photo; Washington Post

Used to be back in the day that an audience was kept informed of a story through clever dialogue and ingenious camera work. It was a simple time. Somewhere along the way we became an audience that needed titulation to maintain focus. To be kept abreast of happenings we needed the revelation (of skin) of story developments with pandering. Women were the first to make this offering and defined Objectification for the modern audiences. Any scary movie was made a hit with the addition of a booby prize. On set sexploitation was a sure fire way to get people to talk up the movie and to sell tickets. And then we grew immune to it.

It was everywhere, sex selling this, sex selling that. And I have no problem with skin, I'm all for it. Really, all for it. But I just see that it appears to be the mainstay of some people's career and some people's tastes. It appears to have replaced truth entirely. A beautiful body is actually a scab for a land where the writer's are striking. You can avoid so much thinking by an audience if you Pecsploit their eyes. There are even Acting Schools in Hollywood that grade progress in their programs by the amount of clothing removed during the course of study. "Better Acting Through Less Clothing; Minimalismm-hmmn". Actors sign up, strip down, and ready for the runway. Being a gay man, I'm glad there are so many chests everywhere to see, but all these chests surrounding you get stale like two hours in a luggage store. Give me a good story and sell it with some honest acting, I may even come twice, to see it.

See Matt Damon discuss the phenomena of Pecsploitation on Letterman;