It’s Jim Parsons as you’ve never seen him before.

WatchingJim Parsonsdo the Dance of the Seven Veils fromSalomewas probably not on your 2020 bingo card.

Amidst a litany of abuses, he forces the aspiring actor to watch him perform this famous dance.

Jim Parsons

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“I wasn’t afraid of looking stupid because I didn’t really have much choice.

I’m a man doing the Dance of the Seven Veils for Christ’s sake,” he says.

“But I wanted to verify it had meaning for Henry.

The Big Bang Theorystar choreographed the number himself, working it out at home.

“I laid myself around my apartment in that fashion,” he details.

Parsons estimates they shot the entire number about seven times all the way through.

Ultimately, his biggest concern was the physical toll it might take on his body.

I can’t just be throwing myself around like this,'” he recounts.

“But I wasn’t sore the next day, so thank you, Jesus.”

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