Chris Messina has been dishing the dirt on his latest nude scene for HBO’s Sharp Objects. Messina – who’s also known for his part as Danny Castellano on The Mindy Project – spoke to Vanity Fair’s podcast this week about getting fully naked in front of the crew.

The day of the shooting, for the episode entitled Closer, had become so unbearably hot that star and producer Amy Adams hired an ice cream truck for the cast to make the most of.

“It was so hot,” Messina explains. “You just wanted to pour the ice cream over your head.” Well… the would have arguably made the scene even hotter… for us, I mean.

He then goes to express his relief of the director’s use of the natural light: “The vain aspect of me was like, ‘I’m so glad that it’s pretty dark, and you can’t see that much of me. That’s probably better off.’”

Hmm, we can’t say we agree!