17 Shocking Incidents Experienced by Famous Women in Hollywood

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Danielle Fishel shared that whereas engaged on Boy Meets World as a youngster a number of males advised her that they have been counting down the times till she turned 18. She added, “I had a male govt — I did a calendar [shoot] at 16 — and he particularly advised me he had a sure calendar month in his bed room.”

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Elle Fanning opened up about dropping a task when she was 16 years previous as a result of somebody concerned with the film stated she was “unfuckable.”

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Thandiwe Newton shared {that a} director really filmed up her skirt throughout a callback. “A director, on a callback, had a digital camera taking pictures up my skirt and requested me to the touch my tits and take into consideration the man making like to me within the scene,” she stated. “I assumed, ‘Okay, it is a little bizarre,’ however there was a feminine casting director within the room and I’d completed bizarre stuff earlier than so I did it.” She later discovered that director was displaying his buddies the video “and they might all get off on it.”

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Jennifer Lawrence as soon as needed to do a “nude line-up” with a number of different girls who have been “a lot, a lot, thinner” than she was. Then a producer advised her that she ought to use “bare photographs of [herself] as inspiration for [her] weight loss plan.”

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Jennette McCurdy shared a narrative when a person who she refers to as “The Creator” pressured her to drink alcohol, despite the fact that she was solely 18. Whereas at dinner collectively, he advised her “Nobody’s trying, Jennetter. You are positive…The Victorious children get drunk collectively on a regular basis. The iCarly children are so healthful. We have to offer you guys somewhat edge.” She did it to appease him.

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Amber Tamblyn was advised by brokers and administrators that she wanted to shed pounds with a purpose to be a star, which led her into some unhealthy consuming habits. In an op-ed she wrote, “[A director] stated the movie studio would supply a coach and a meal plan for me. I used to be 5 toes 7 inches tall and weighed simply 120 kilos. I keep in mind this quantity exactly as a result of 5 kilos lighter would make me 115 kilos, which is the quantity I ended up reaching after I spent two weeks consuming solely the deli meat off Subway sandwiches and skipping dinners altogether.”

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Megan Fox appeared as an additional in Unhealthy Boys II when she was 15 years previous. Within the film, she wore a stars and stripes bikini together with a pink cowboy hat. She added, “[The crew] stated, you recognize, Michael [Bay, director], she’s 15 so you may’t sit her on the bar and she will’t have a drink in her hand. So his answer to that downside was to then have me dancing beneath a waterfall getting soaking moist. At 15. I used to be in tenth grade. In order that’s form of a microcosm of how Bay’s thoughts works.”

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Gina Rodriguez was as soon as requested to come back again sporting a “black costume” after an audition as a result of they “[needed] to know if [she was] fairly sufficient to be on the quilt of {a magazine}.”

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Judi Dench was advised throughout one among her first auditions that she had “each single factor fallacious together with her face” and would not be forged in “any movie” due to how she seemed.

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Sheryl Lee Ralph was fired from a TV pilot as a result of a producer claimed she wasn’t “Black sufficient.”

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Meryl Streep was advised she wasn’t “stunning sufficient” to play Dwan in King Kong. Throughout her audition, she overheard producer Dino De Laurentiis begin talking Italian and ask his son (who’d instructed her for the position), “Why do you carry me this ugly factor?” He did not understand that Meryl may additionally perceive the language.

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Constance Wu shared her experiences being harassed by a Recent Off the Boat producer. “No one needed you. I needed to struggle for you,” he would inform her and allegedly urged her to fireside her agent. Along with controlling her at work, he allegedly touched her inappropriately throughout a Lakers recreation. When she determined she did not need to put up together with his conduct anymore she was advised that she can be “insulting your complete AAPI neighborhood together with her conduct.” She did not come ahead publicly in regards to the scenario till writing her memoir, Making a Scene.

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Emmy Rossum was requested to point out as much as a director’s workplace solely sporting a bikini, as a result of he needed to see if she “was fats now.”

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Zoe Saldaña was as soon as advised by a producer, “I employed you to look good in your underwear holding a gun.”

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Lana Condor was as soon as advised to “be extra like Hi there Kitty” throughout an audition. “I simply was like, ‘I don’t know what you imply,'” she stated. “I straight up — you type of need to name that out. Additionally, Hi there Kitty doesn’t have a mouth. [So, as] a girl, I’m like, ‘You need me to be extra like Hi there Kitty, however she doesn’t have a voice.’ That’s so insulting to me.”

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Kate Beckinsale was made to imagine she wasn’t enticing by Michael Bay, who directed her in Pearl Harbor. She defined that in interviews he’d say issues like, “‘I’ve labored with Ben [Affleck] earlier than, and I like him, and Josh [Hartnett] is so manly and a beautiful actor.’ Then, when he was requested about me, he’d say, ‘Kate wasn’t so enticing that she would alienate the feminine viewers.'”

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And eventually, Mila Kunis was advised by a producer that “she’d by no means work on this city once more,” when she refused to pose “semi-naked on the quilt of a males’s journal.” She added, “I used to be now not prepared to topic myself to a naïve compromise that I had beforehand been prepared to. ‘I’ll by no means work on this city once more?’ I used to be furious, I felt objectified, and for the primary time in my profession, I stated no.”