The sexy Tyson Beckford is solidifying his role as Hollywood’s chocolate heartthrob with his upcoming role in the erotic thriller Addicted. TheYBF.com chopped it up with the fineness that is Mr. Beckford where he talks about his relationship with Victoria’s Secret model Shanina Shaik, how she handles his steamy sex scenes, whether he’ll ever do full frontal nudity in a film and much more inside....
Supermodel Tyson Beckford has gone from ripping the Ralph Lauren Polo runway to making his presence known in Hollywood. And for his most recent gig, he’s starring in the provocative silver screen adaptation Addicted, based on the best-selling novel by Zane, due to hit theaters October 10th.
Directed by Billie Woodruff, Tyson plays a motorcycle riding bad boy. The type of no-holds-barred man who ends up sleeping with married successful businesswoman Zoe Reynard (Sharon Leal) as she pursues a secretive life of infidelity, unbeknownst to her husband (Boris Kodjoe).
TheYBF.com's correspondent Krysta Underwood had a little chit-chat with the 43-year old Hollywood chiseled man -- after fanning herself a few times.
And during their chat, he revealed he and his Victoria’s Secret model girlfriend Shanina Shaik NEVER broke up. It’s interesting to note, Shanina was romantically linked to Cleveland Browns player Julian Posey back in May of this year. The two had a ball snapping and posting up Instagram selfies to their accounts as they watched the American League Cleveland Indians Game. In fact, the VS model’s rep confirmed to MailOnline that the two were actually dating. Oh, and he explains why she's actually considered Black.
But, Tyson sings a bit of a different tune. When asked if he and his 23-year-old girlfriend had gotten back together (after we spotted him all over her at the US Open recently) he said,
"Yeah! I don’t know why people had thought we had taken a break we just weren’t seen together so you know how they come up with that," he said. "She’s actually out there by the pool getting her tan on! She’s training now for the upcoming VS show. I’m a true supporter of her and it was her lifelong dream to do it and I said I’ll help you if you’re down to do the work."
Oh…ok.
The sexy model-turned-actor also talked about why he isn’t dating a “black woman”, how his girlfriend handles having to watch his steamy sex scenes, whether he would strip down and do full frontal nudity in a film and much more.
Here are the highlights:
How do you respond when people say why aren’t you with a black girl?
'My girlfriend is actually Saudi Arabian, Pakistani, and Lithuanian so she’s a big mix of a lot of things. And in Australia she’s considered black.'
So you do still have love for black women?
'Oh yeah of course! I grew up dating everything, so I don’t discriminate. And it’s sad that it’s still racist comments about where’s the black girls. I don’t see color.'
Did you read the book "Addicted"?
'I didn’t read the book but I knew about the book from high school and college because you guys [women] were all in it. And sometimes boys would be boys and I would snatch the book and get chased down the hall and a girl would catch me and slap me on the back and I’m like why ya’ll reading them nasty books anyway. [laughs]
Looking back on some of those moments I remember when one girl was done with the book she would give it to their girlfriend like Girlllllllll!! I remember they would be sharing the book. I remember that totally in school. Zane has been around and I’m just starting to find out how big her following is.'
How does your girlfriend feel about all the sex scenes?
'I brought her to set one day when we were shooting the bathroom scene and Boris was like what you doing playboy!? What you doing rookie!? They were all looking at me like, ROOKIE MOVE! But her and [co-star] Sharon [Leal] talked and Sharon’s boyfriend was there at the time and they talked and I talked to him. I kind of had to go and be friendly with him. Not because I felt it was a need but it was just like the right thing to do. We had a fun time.'
Are you solidifying yourself as an on screen heartthrob?
"Oh definitely! I figured after doing Addicted I needed to do something crazier so then Chocolate City came and it was like oh boy! This is gone do it! In this business, as a black actor, you kind of try to strategically plan how to do your stuff and I have friends like Laz Alonso, Michael K. Williams and so many other friends and I’m like alright I gotta do something different from what these guys are doing. So I gotta create my own core audience that will run out and see the movies that I’m in. That’s why I took that chocolate city script. And my manager was like “I don’t know about this one” but I read it and I was like this is gonna be good!!"
How do you feel about nudity? Would you ever do full frontal?
"Yeah! I thought when I committed to 'Chocolate City' that I would have to be fully nude. It was no problem. The most that I get nude is my shorts down and you see my butt. That’s about it.
They didn’t want to go there [with nudity] and there were real strippers in the film and guys were tying off. They had their rubber bands and I was like I don’t need no rubber band! I went and looked at the pictures of my girlfriend and I put the oil on and when the music came on it was over! We were grabbing girls and dry humping them, throwing them out in the crowd and when the director yelled cut I would be like are you alright girlfriend?? [laughs]"
How do you feel about the celebrity nude hacking scandal? Do you have any secrets in the cloud?
"Mine would be boring. I come from that model world where you’ve pretty much seen us naked already. I did that naked show with the transgender and the only thing we didn’t show in that was frontal nudity. And then I just did Arsenic magazine, I’m nude in that and I’m surrounded by white girls, latin girls, and that’s provocative in itself because they were like “WHERE ARE THE BLACK GIRLS!?” I said well they casted for the look they wanted for that day. The Arsenic in no way is a racist magazine. The owner of it is a black guy."
Who is your #WCW Woman Crush Wednesday? And it can’t be your girlfriend.
"I had Rihanna once. I had Beyonce and then she [my girlfriend] got mad and I had to take them all down. My WCW is my motorcycles or my car. There are some girls I would like to pick but I just can’t. Happy wife, happy life. "
Was he joking bout the Queen Bey though? Hmmm....
Take a peep at Tyson in action below :
Addicted hits theaters October 10th.
Photo/ Interview: YBF Correspondent Krysta Underwood