The video was allegedly taken by someone who attended the Broadway revival of Take Me Out, a Richard Greenberg play where Williams stars as a gay major league baseball player, People reports. The play, which is being shown at the Second Stage Theater, is mostly set in a locker, including a shower scene that features several actors, including Williams, fully nude.

It was made clear to attendees upon their arrival to the show that phones were not allowed in the theater. According to Atlanta Black Star, guests were required to put their phones in sealed Yondr cases for the duration of the performance. As per the Second Stage’s website, viewers are asked to do so “out of respect and support for our actors and in order to create phone-free space.”

But somehow one attendee snuck a phone into the venue and captured a revealing picture of Williams, sharing it online and setting Twitter ablaze.

The ladies of The View, including Sunny Hostin, spoke about the photos.

According to the New York Post, Hostin said that she looked at the pictures for “a ridiculous amount of time,” telling viewers that she justified her actions because he went on Watch What Happens Live and told host Andy Cohen that he’s unbothered by the nudity in the play.

“It’s a body — once you see it, you realize it’s whatever, it’s a body,” Williams reportedly said on Watch What Happens Live prior to the release of the leaked photos, according to Vanity Fair. “I just have to make it not that big of a deal.”

Hostin’s co-host Whoopi Goldberg suggested that he had it coming.

“I say it’s a matter of time,” she said on the show. “If you take a gig and you know you got to take your clothes off, you live in the world where cellphone video is going to happen at some time.”

Critics of leaked nude photos, including the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), are speaking, referring to the act as “both sexual harassment and an appalling breach of consent.”

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the creation and distribution of photographs and videos of our members during a nude scene,” Kate Shindle, president of Actors’ Equity Association, said on Tuesday.

Second Stage Theater also released a statement saying they are “appalled.”

“It is deeply unfortunate that one audience member chose to disrespect the production, their fellow audience members and, most importantly, the cast in this manner,” the statement posted on the Actors’ Equity Association website read. “Taking naked pictures of anyone without their consent is highly objectionable and can have severe legal consequences.”

The theater also said they are pursuing “takedown requests.”

Some pointed out that if Williams was a woman, there would be a much different discourse happening.

“The comments on this are disgusting,” one user wrote. “Why are people laughing about the fact that someone took photos of Jesse Williams nude without his consent and then spread them? That’s literal sexual harassment/abuse. If you can’t do this to women you can’t do this to men. Keep the energy.”

“I have to go with @kateshindle on the #JesseWilliams situation,” another user tweeted, referring to the AEA’s statement on the incident. “It’s sexual harassment/assault. Would the people celebrating this be okay if a woman were assaulted in this way? These photos/videos were NOT consented to.”