Possibly every part is larger in Texas.
Producers on the hit CBS present “Dallas” as soon as accused Christopher Atkins of stuffing his Speedo, however the cleaning soap star swears he by no means did.
Atkins — who portrayed swim coach Peter Richards on the Texas-based cleaning soap opera, which ran from 1978 to 1991 — solely revealed on the Web page Six’s “Inform Me About It” sequence that he received a be aware from the community saying to “please cease stuffing my Speedo.”
“Hell no,” he exclaimed once we requested if he was actually bulking up his bulge, including that he took the remark in stride.
“That’s a really good backhanded praise I might assume from the community,” the actor, 64, mentioned, including that he nonetheless wonders who gave that be aware.
“‘What do you consider that?’ ‘Oh, I feel he’s pushing it a bit bit.’ ‘Alright, we’ll give him a be aware,’” he mentioned, enjoying out a faux dialog with present staffers.
Atkins grew to become an in a single day star when he made his movie debut reverse Brooke Shields in 1980’s “The Blue Lagoon.”
The couple performed two younger kids who’re shipwrecked on a tropical isle, and as soon as they hit puberty fall in love and have a toddler collectively. Shields turned 15 throughout filming, whereas Atkins was 18.
The movie was controversial not just for its subject material but additionally as a result of Atkins briefly appeared bare within the movie.
Atkins mentioned showing nude didn’t “freak” him out.
“We talked about it and what the director’s [Randall Kleiser] imaginative and prescient was and it had nothing to do with being gratuitous,” he defined. “As you realize, again then within the ’80s, there was a variety of gratuitous [nudity] occurring, particularly with females … I mentioned, ‘Nicely, let’s simply go together with it and see.’”
The film additionally made Atkins a teen heartthrob, notably for males.
“The Pirate Film” star mentioned he heard an attention-grabbing principle on why he appeals to males greater than ladies, explaining that when “The Blue Lagoon” was launched, “there was a giant popping out for homosexual males” and his “full frontal nudity” was interesting for lots of them.
“It simply took off from there,” he mentioned. “And so I used to be very flattered about that.”
Atkins even appeared nude in Playgirl in 1983.
“My principle was, you reside as soon as, there’s going to be a day the place they’re going to pay me to maintain my garments on,” he mentioned with amusing about why he posed for the magazine. “And I feel I’m there by now! … It was fairly enjoyable.”
Today, the divorced dad of two lives in Connecticut and is a doting grandfather to 3 grandsons.
“I would like them to get to know their grandpa,” he shares, including that he had simply gotten again from seeing them.
“It was actually thrilling as a result of I received to look at the soccer and I received to look at the rollerblade hockey and all of that,” he gushes.
