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As part of our celebration of the golden age of naked television that we are living in, we talked to actor Kristian Nairn, aka Game of Thrones’s Hodor, about one of the pinnacles of nudity on the HBO show: the time he flashed his half-giant wang.

They brought out two prosthetic penises—one with black, curly pubes and one with normal pubes. I don’t know why they made the Afro one—I have gray hair; that was weird. It was made out of, like, latex, and it was very realistic-feeling. But Hodor looks part giant, so it was definitely beyond human—about sixteen inches. When Natalia Tena—she plays Osha—first saw me, she was like, "Oh, is that real?!" Luckily no, Natalia. To attach it, they made a thong, which they CGI’d out or something. It was a little awkward, I’m not going to lie. We were filming in Belfast, it was raining and freezing, and there were about 200 people around. Awkward.

I actually thought it was an important thing to do, because I’m a bigger guy. It’s good to get the idea out there that not everyone is a beach-body type.

The show gets a lot of flak for its [lack of] male nudity, but I have an answer for that: Shut up. I think there’s plenty of male nudity. There are two breasts for every penis, so that’s maybe why it’s outnumbered. And it takes sacrifice! The pubes had to be planted into my own hair with glue, so the removal hurt. I felt sorry for the makeup girl, too.

— As Told to Jen Ortiz

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