Skins star Nicholas Hoult has said he’d rather go nude than wear Y-fronts on film.

Nicholas shot to fame as a child actor opposite Hugh Grant in About a Boy but reinvented himself for the Channel Four teen series, where he played drug-taking, sex-obsessed hedonist Tony.

Nicholas took a little Tony with him for his new role in BBC drama Coming Down The Mountain, telling the Sunday Mirror: “There was one scene where my character has to appear wearing a pair of Y-fronts, and the script was very specific about it.”

“I wouldn’t be seen dead in them. I’d rather do a nude scene any day than appear in Y-fronts. I was thinking about protesting, but in the end, the scene was dropped anyway. That was definitely a lucky break as far as my image was concerned!”

“In real life you get out of the shower naked, so why wouldn’t you do it on screen? It’s just a normal thing.”

“I always think, ‘Should I have buffed up a bit more?’ But, in the end, I find working out boring.”