Chris Pine has made headlines with his latest film not so much for his acting chops, but more for parts of his body.
The Star Trek actor says he finds it "very funny" that there's so much talk about his naked genitals in the film, rather than the graphic violence it also shows.
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In Outlaw King, Pine plays Robert the Bruce, the 14th Century Scottish leader who defeated and the much larger and better equipped occupying English army.
"What I find very funny is there's so much beheading in this, and yet people want to talk about my penis," Pine told the Hollywood Reporter.
"I think it says something about our society where people get disemboweled, but it's the man's junk that is of interest - I know that sounds funny, but really, we are just base animals.
"And I thought it was very important to see this man who was going to have power be an animal."
In an article on Vulture, Nate Jones labels it "the kind of movie you'd get if you tasked the world's biggest Game of Thrones fan with remaking Braveheart", before describing Pine's two full frontal nudity scenes at length.
He compares a sex scene in the film to notorious so-bad-it's-good movie The Room.
"The male nudity in Outlaw King is completely gratuitous, which actually fits the movie's aesthetic perfectly, since it's exactly as gratuitous as the film's graphic stabbings, hangings, and disembowelings," says Jones.
A selection of Twitter reactions to Pine's nude scenes are embedded below:
Outlaw King has just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and will soon be heading to Netflix.
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