Billy Crystal Clarifies Sex on TV Comments
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ABC/A.M.P.A.S.(NEW YORK) — Billy Crystal tells The Hollywood Reporter the remarks he made about sex on TV this past weekend have been taken out of context.
The trade paper says Crystal was making an appearance at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour to promote his new FX show The Comedians when he was asked about playing a gay character on the TV series Soap decades ago and what he thought about what has happened to television since then.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Crystal replied that playing the gay character Jodie on network TV “was very difficult at the time.” Crystal said it was 1977 and “it was awkward and it was tough.”
As for what has happened to television in the year since, Crystal remarked, “I’ve seen some stuff recently on TV in different kinds of shows where the language or the explicit sex is really, you know, sometimes I get it, and sometimes I just feel like, ‘Ah, that’s too much for me’…sometimes it’s just pushed a little too far for my tastes, and I’m not going to get into which ones they are.”
After Crystal was criticized for his remark, he released a statement to The Hollywood Reporter saying, “What I meant was that whenever sex or graphic nudity of any kind (gay or straight) is gratuitous to the plot or story it becomes a little too much for my taste.”
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