Brendan Fraser says he and Matt Damon were both actually nude while filming the 'School Ties' shower

• Brendan Fraser opened up about filming a shower fight scene for his 1992 film "School Ties."
• The "Mummy" star told Howard Stern that he and costar Matt Damon were both nude for the scene.
• "It was scary. It's scary to do that," Fraser said of filming the naked fight. 

Brendan Fraser opened up about filming a tense shower scene with Matt Damon for their 1992 film "School Ties" and revealed that both actors were fully nude while filming.

During his Tuesday appearance on "The Howard Stern Show," Stern asked Fraser about the logistics of filming the scene, in which Damon's character Charlie goads Fraser's character David into fighting in the shower by making an anti-Semitic joke in front of the Jewish David. 

"Were you guys fully nude in that scene?" Stern asked Fraser.

"Oh yeah. Absolutely," the "Whale" star replied. 

"It was scary. It's scary to do that," Fraser continued. "And when you're an actor and starting off, and you're ambitious and game for pretty much anything, they say jump and you say how high."

The "Mummy" actor told Stern, however, that the meaning of the scene wasn't lost on him.

"At the same time, I appreciated that this isn't really for wow or a scintillating factor of going, 'Hey, look at that. Naked people,'" Fraser added. "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." 

"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 concluded. 

Released in 1992, "School Ties" follows David (Fraser), a Jewish student struggling to find acceptance at an elite, predominantly Christian prep school. Damon, Ben Affleck, and Chris O'Donnell also star in the film. 

Fraser was recently nominated for an Oscar, with his work in Darren Aronofsky's "The Whale" landing him a nod for best actor in a leading role. 

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