In a video shared to his Instagram Nov. 1, a "bloody" Nicholas resembled depictions of Jesus Christ by wearing a achromatic toga wrapper astir his waist and sandals arsenic helium performed the choreographed creation for Charli XCX's deed opus "Apple" from her medium Brat. In the background, fake men with arrows successful their heads and humor dripping down their faces sat astatine a agelong array reminiscent of The Last Supper.
Another photograph showed him smiling with fake nails successful his palms, seemingly depicting Jesus’ crucifixion. Alongside the footage, Nicholas—who is presently starring connected Ryan's Grotesquerie fearfulness play bid arsenic Father Charlie Mayhew—wrote successful the caption, "BRAT supper @grotesqueriefx play finale is retired now."
The costume called to caput Leonardo Da Vinci's iconic The Last Supper coating and the "Brat Summer" net inclination spawned by the popularity of Charli's album, Brat. But not everyone was connected committee with the pun.
"Oh we're mocking Jesus now??" 1 Instagram idiosyncratic commented nether his post, portion different added, "Um one cant support you here. let’s delight not usage my religion similar this."
Other disapproval called the outfit “weird,” “disrespectful,” “not cute” and “sad.”
But others argued that the 25-year-old's attire indispensable person thing to bash with his quality connected Grotesquerie, with 1 idiosyncratic writing, "Its virtually for a show??"
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And immoderate simply didn't deliberation Nicholas had immoderate atrocious intentions.
"Hahaha this is funny," 1 instrumentality commented. "I grew up successful a Christian location and I’m a spiritual idiosyncratic but adjacent I tin spot the humour successful this. I deliberation God has overmuch bigger things to interest astir lol."
E! News reached retired to Nicholas' rep for remark but has not heard back.
And portion Nicholas hasn't addressed the disapproval publicly, helium antecedently admitted that he's inactive adjusting to each the newfound attraction he's gotten since the merchandise of Monsters.
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"How could you ever support way of it all?" helium told People successful an interrogation published Oct. 15. "It's precise cool, and much than anything, it's chill to get those signals from radical that they're responding to the work, but it is unusual to spot the response."
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