Chad Michael Murray Says There's a 'Spicy Version' of The Merry Gentlemen Stripper Movie with 'More Thrusting'

Chad Michael Murray is keeping things spicy this holiday season.

The actor (43) revealed his lavish Netflix Christmas movie Merry gentlemenwho has a lot of shirtless dancing, has an even cuter cut while talking to Interview magazine.

Although Murray wants to keep his work “healthy” because he has three young children, he has spoken about how daring he is willing to act in his films. For now, he draws the line right around his risky dance in the Merry gentlemen. However, he shared with the film, “there was a spicy version that was more powerful.”

“We threaded the needle, where it’s still completely free and fun, and not… you know what I mean?” he said of the cut that made it to Netflix.

“There’s something invigorating and exciting about dance that I’ve never embraced before,” he added. “There was such a rush of dopamine and freedom in what we were doing. I liked it.”

Chad Michael Murray in the Netflix series ‘The Merry Gentlemen’.

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Merry gentlemen features a big-city dancer, played by Britt Robertson, who returns to her small hometown for the holidays and puts on an all-male Christmas show in hopes of saving her parents’ ballroom.

In the holiday film, Murray plays Luke, one of the belly-baring dancers.

The One Tree Hill the actor recently shared with PEOPLE what it was like learning to dance for the first time for a film.

He said the risky dance training involved “a lot of work, dedication and focus”, including arriving for a “six-hour shift” at the ballroom earlier than the other men, who had previously been trained in the dance, to ensure he was well-prepared .

“If I was going to do this, I wanted to be all in,” he said.

The physical transformation was “very intense,” Murray said, but, “I love a good challenge.”

Chad Michael Murray.

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Before this role, Murray said, “I have never danced professionally or trained in any way.”

“I like to go out and dance. My wife [Sarah Roemer] and I’ve danced at one or two weddings, occasionally we dance and goof around in the house, but nothing on this level,” he said.

Although he was afraid of the role at first, his fear pushed him to do it.

“When I see something and it scares me to death, something inside me says, ‘Okay, well, let’s see what we can do. I’m going to fall on my face or I’m going to have a lot of fun doing it,’ he said.

Initially, his wife was “nervous” about the film after seeing the behind-the-scenes footage for the first time. Murray said setting the right tone is important for a holiday film.

“She said, ‘Oh my God, what are you doing?’ Because depending on how you shoot it and how you light it, it could be a completely different movie,” he said. “It’s good to combine a Christmas movie and striptease and succeed, isn’t it? It’s not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Christmas. So for us it was really about making sure the tone was right.”

The actor knows that confidence is key when it comes to being sexy — he shared his definition of the word “sexy” with PEOPLE ahead of the release of Sexiest Man Alive.

“Sexy is a state of mind,” he told PEOPLE, not a “visual reflection” of a person. “It’s self-confidence, it’s sitting with yourself. It’s lying in bed at night and knowing you’ve had a good day and done what you could, and you’re not sorry when you go to sleep.”

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