The Blue Lagoon star Christopher Atkins tours regional Australia in Ladies Night play

US actor Christopher Atkins is still taking his shirt off nearly four decades on from controversial film The Blue Lagoon for a regional Australian tour of the play Ladies Night.

American actor Christopher Atkins will perform in a tour of Ladies Night.

Actor Christopher Atkins is still taking his shirt off nearly four decades on from controversial film The Blue Lagoon.

And he isn’t worried at all about getting his kit off at the age of 58.

“I have been naked my whole career,” the American actor says. “I have been naked in front of hundreds of grips and lighting guys. I honestly couldn’t care less.”

Atkins’ latest nude effort is for the stage production of Ladies Night that will tour Australia later this month.

Christopher Atkins with costar Brooke Shields in 1980 film The Blue Lagoon.

The show is similar to The Full Monty, where middle-aged men embark on a journey to become strippers.

“It can get a little naughty,” Atkins says. “I don’t have a problem with it. It is fun and silly and shocking and that is the surprise. People will be asking if we really are naked.”

Ladies Night also stars Australian actor Steven Tandy, of The Sullivans fame, and Alli Pope.

“It will be a lot of laughs and a little bit of jaw dropping naughty,” he explained. “The difference is Blue Lagoon was a six pack and now it is one. It is a heck of a lot different nowadays to what it was then.

Actors Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins in 1980 film 'The Blue Lagoon'.

“It is like The Full Monty, a hysterical play about blokes who are dead broke and they are middle aged with beer guts and they decide to do something.”

While fit for his age, Atkins says he will do his best to tone up before the first show.

“I am an old man and I need to be fitter,” he said. “I have got my old belly now. I have been in the gym my entire life so it is one of those things where I think I have retired – and then what happens? I get a play where I’ve got to take my shirt off again.”

Outside of the production, Atkins is working on writing, directing and producing a few film projects.

American actor Christopher Atkins. Picture: Supplied.

One is a movie titled Lucky Valentine for which he hopes to cast Channing Tatum.

“I am at a point where I’ve done everybody elses films and now I want to start making my own,” he says.

“Lucky Valentine combines two of the most popular sports on the planet, baseball and cricket. It is an hysterically funny heartfelt movie that combines the two sports.

“We take those sports and make it a love story and combine it with over the top characters that you root for. It is a really commercial good film I am very excited about.”

SEE LADIES NIGHT AT THE FOLLOWING SA REGIONAL VENUES:

June 18, Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre, Mt Gambier,

June 19, Chaffey Theatre, Renmark

June 20, Middleback Arts Centre, Whyalla

June 21, Hopgood Theatre, Noarlunga

June 22, Northern Festival Centre, Port Pirie

Further information and bookings at countryarts.org.au

Originally published as The Blue Lagoon star Christopher Atkins tours regional Australia in Ladies Night play