Chris Messina delighted his fans when he danced and stripped as Danny Castellano on The Mindy Project, and he has upped the stakes with his appearance in Digging for Fire: Messina gets completely naked in the Joe Swanberg-directed film. And not just that — he cannonballs into a pool while unclothed.

THR film critic John DeFore reviewed Digging for Fire and said that in one shot Messina sits up from a pool chair and plunges into the pool nude, moving the whole time. He explained that this is part of a long shot with a lot of other actors in the frame, and that the film doesn’t treat the scene as a big deal at all. In fact, Messina’s part in the movie is very minimal.

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In true Swanberg style, the film is full of improvisation, and it was Messina’s decision to strip down during the party scene. It’s not his first time getting naked in a movie, though. The actor filmed multiple nude scenes for 28 Hotel Rooms.

“Well, I’m all about male nudity, which isn’t in movies enough,” Swanberg told the audience at the post-screening Q&A at Sundance. “You know, there’s a lot of legal s— that goes into having people naked in a movie — there’s contracts involved and things like that — so obviously we didn’t do that because I didn’t know he was going to take his clothes off. So I wrote him afterward, and I was like, ‘Well, I think I’m going to use it. What do you think about that?’ He said, ‘Well, send it to me. I don’t want to be just an extra in your movie who got naked.’ And I was like, ‘All right.’ So I sent him a Vimeo link, and he was like, ‘I love it! Use the c—!’ “

The film, co-written by Swanberg and Jake Johnson, is a marital drama about a young married couple who spend a weekend apart. It stars Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick. There is a mystery element to the film when the husband (played by Johnson) finds a revolver and a bone in the backyard. This was inspired by real-life events and Johnson talks to THR about the inspiration for the film in the video below.

Here’s a look at Messina dancing on The Mindy Project, for your viewing pleasure:

The full dance, courtesy of Hulu:

Here’s Messina talking about getting naked in 28 Hotel Rooms: