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Danielle Fishel shared that while working on Boy Meets World as a teenager several men told her that they were counting down the days until she turned 18. She added, “I had a male executive — I did a calendar [shoot] at 16 — and he specifically told me he had a certain calendar month in his bedroom.”
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Elle Fanning opened up about losing a role when she was 16 years old because someone involved with the movie said she was “unfuckable.”
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Thandiwe Newton shared that a director actually filmed up her skirt during a callback. “A director, on a callback, had a camera shooting up my skirt and asked me to touch my tits and think about the guy making love to me in the scene,” she said. “I thought, ‘Okay, this is a little weird,’ but there was a female casting director in the room and I’d done weird stuff before so I did it.” She later learned that director was showing his friends the video “and they would all get off on it.”
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Jennifer Lawrence once had to do a “nude line-up” with several other women who were “much, much, thinner” than she was. Then a producer told her that she should use “naked photos of [herself] as inspiration for [her] diet.”
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Jennette McCurdy shared a story when a man who she refers to as “The Creator” pressured her to drink alcohol, even though she was only 18. While at dinner together, he told her “No one’s looking, Jennetter. You’re fine…The Victorious kids get drunk together all the time. The iCarly kids are so wholesome. We need to give you guys a little edge.” She did it to appease him.
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Amber Tamblyn was told by agents and directors that she needed to lose weight in order to be a star, which led her into some unhealthy eating habits. In an op-ed she wrote, “[A director] said the film studio would provide a trainer and a meal plan for me. I was 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighed just 120 pounds. I remember this number precisely because five pounds lighter would make me 115 pounds, which is the number I ended up achieving after I spent two weeks eating only the deli meat off Subway sandwiches and skipping dinners altogether.”
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Megan Fox appeared as an extra in Bad Boys II when she was 15 years old. In the movie, she wore a stars and stripes bikini along with a red cowboy hat. She added, “[The crew] said, you know, Michael [Bay, director], she’s 15 so you can’t sit her at the bar and she can’t have a drink in her hand. So his solution to that problem was to then have me dancing underneath a waterfall getting soaking wet. At 15. I was in 10th grade. So that’s sort of a microcosm of how Bay’s mind works.”
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Gina Rodriguez was once asked to come back wearing a “black dress” after an audition because they “[needed] to know if [she was] pretty enough to be on the cover of a magazine.”
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Judi Dench was told during one of her first auditions that she had “every single thing wrong with her face” and wouldn’t be cast in “any film” because of how she looked.
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Sheryl Lee Ralph was fired from a TV pilot because a producer claimed she wasn’t “Black enough.”
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Meryl Streep was told she wasn’t “beautiful enough” to play Dwan in King Kong. During her audition, she overheard producer Dino De Laurentiis start speaking Italian and ask his son (who’d suggested her for the role), “Why do you bring me this ugly thing?” He didn’t realize that Meryl could also understand the language.
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Constance Wu shared her experiences being harassed by a Fresh Off the Boat producer. “Nobody wanted you. I had to fight for you,” he would tell her and allegedly urged her to fire her agent. In addition to controlling her at work, he allegedly touched her inappropriately during a Lakers game. When she decided she didn’t want to put up with his behavior anymore she was told that she would be “insulting the entire AAPI community with her behavior.” She didn’t come forward publicly about the situation until writing her memoir, Making a Scene.
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Emmy Rossum was asked to show up to a director’s office only wearing a bikini, because he wanted to see if she “was fat now.”
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Zoe Saldaña was once told by a producer, “I hired you to look good in your underwear holding a gun.”
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Lana Condor was once told to “be more like Hello Kitty” during an audition. “I just was like, ‘I don’t know what you mean,'” she said. “I straight up — you kind of have to call that out. Also, Hello Kitty doesn’t have a mouth. [So, as] a woman, I’m like, ‘You want me to be more like Hello Kitty, but she doesn’t have a voice.’ That’s so insulting to me.”
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Kate Beckinsale was made to believe she wasn’t attractive by Michael Bay, who directed her in Pearl Harbor. She explained that during interviews he’d say things like, “‘I have worked with Ben [Affleck] before, and I love him, and Josh [Hartnett] is so manly and a wonderful actor.’ Then, when he was asked about me, he’d say, ‘Kate wasn’t so attractive that she would alienate the female audience.'”
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And finally, Mila Kunis was told by a producer that “she’d never work in this town again,” when she refused to pose “semi-naked on the cover of a men’s magazine.” She added, “I was no longer willing to subject myself to a naïve compromise that I had previously been willing to. ‘I will never work in this town again?’ I was livid, I felt objectified, and for the first time in my career, I said no.”
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