Yes, Brendan Fraser and Matt Damon Are Really Naked in This Film

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Grab your DVDs! Brendan Fraser is spilling some piping hot tea about his experience filming "School Ties" with Matt Damon.

As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Fraser appeared on "The Howard Stern Show" to promote his critically-acclaimed film, "The Whale."

But with it being "Howard Stern," the conversation didn't stop there. Fraser went into detail about his Hollywood experiences, including the experience that led him to retreat from the limelight, and opened up about having to be completely butt-naked with Damon.

"I appreciated that this isn't really for wow or a scintillating factor of going, 'Hey, look at that. Naked people,'" Fraser remarked about the scene in question in which a fight breaks out between him and Damon after Damon outs Fraser as Jewish to the team.

"The point of it was that when Damon's character says what he says about David, he just reveals who he is. His anti-Semitism and his prejudice is stripped down naked and it's ugly," Fraser explained. "And the door is locked and they fight over it like shaved apes that need to be pulled apart because they've run out of things to say to one another, and it just turns into an ugly knuckle-dusting fit."

Fraser described the scene as "scary," especially because it was his very first film.

"When you're an actor, and you're starting off, you're ambitious and game for pretty much anything. They say jump, you say how high?" said Fraser. Thankfully, he was in a supportive environment, he said.

"Chris O'Donnell – he kicked out the set photographer who was hiding in one of the bathroom stalls," Fraser joked. "'Yeah, Peter, you can go, thank you. You really don't need to be there, do you?'"

About Damon, Fraser remembered, "I just remember thinking, 'He's already got the job, and this is my shot here. Okay, don't mess this up, bring things down a size,'" he said. "I was used to being on stage at that point in my life and playing to the back row, and I knew that I needed to match pitch with Matt, so I felt like I was his wingman or something, and I think that's why I got hired."

Watch Fraser's full commentary below.