Casting Couch Experiences in Hollywood

uh, almost a victim of the casting couch.

You said at one point in your career you were very, I don't know where, where you

were at in your career, some producer invited you to a,

to his house.

It was my first audition ever.

Oh my God.

I had never, I was,

I had just turned 19. I might have still been 18.

I had never been on, out for an audition.

I asked this modeling agent if she heard of anything, I, like I

was gonna give this

acting thing a try.

Right.

She said, "Yep, go to this guy's house.

It's on Saturday at 9:00."

So all of your auditions were done at the house?

At my house on Saturdays at 9:00 in the morning, when you're a little foggy.

Your, your little, your guard is down, where you-

No, it was 9:00 PM.

Oh my God.

Oh, we, we-

9:00 PM

... called it a date. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, at 9:00 PM.

There, there should be a law against that, right?

I mean, b- but, but you-

Yeah

... would think your agent or somebody modeling-

Well, I didn't have an agent

... but you'd think somebody would have

thought-

I don't think she had a clue either

... this is weird.

Right.

She was just like, "I guess this is what they do," and I-

And the guy's a big deal, and he's famous and done movies

He was a very big deal.

Right.

And is still a big deal. Yeah.

Whoa.

Whoa.

Yeah.

So on a Saturday night at 9:00 o'clock-

Mm

... you go over to audition for a film.

Yeah.

And, and, and how does that play out? What happens?

He, uh, I knocked on the door, and he opened up, uh, the door, and he

was in

his pajamas.

Oi.

Barefoot.

First of all-

I think he-

... why do guys think they're gonna, like, like why do guys think, A, showing your

dick to someone is gonna turn them on?

It's, it's-

Yeah

... embarrassing when any guy thinks they're sexy at all.

Even, even sexy guys-

Right

... should not act as though their physical

being is in

any way tempting.

That can't be a good look-

No

... on any level.

And by the way, I just, like, wanna clear, I mean, I don't know.

Robin, do you agree? Like, we don't want to see you just pull out

your dick.

No, that's exactly right.

So you go to the guy's house.

Yeah.

It's Saturday night, and I'm sure you're, a- and here he answers the door in the

pajamas.

Yeah.

Do you just, like, turn around and say, "This guy is-"

I should've. I should've. I didn't.

I went-

Pajamas are not a good look on a man.

No.

No.

No. And, but he was, uh, he had a very healthy ego.

He felt very good about himself.

Ugh.

There was some kind of Muzak playing in the house.

Oh, God.

MD Music.

There was a lot of, like-

Never good

... cold marble-

Ugh

... uh, and crystal. And then we sat down, and we started talking.

He sat very close to me. That was strange.

The drinking bothered me. I was like, "This is,

doesn't feel right." I kept kind of

saying as he was asking me questions about me, I said, "I've never done this,

so just tell me, like I have these pages.

Do you want me to read these pages?" And

he was like, "No, no, no, no, no. This is, I'm just gonna, we're just gonna talk."

Ugh.

And then at one point he put his hand on my knee.

Oi.

And that's when I just went, "Oof." And I, it was, it's crazy.

And girls talk about this, where you just go blank.

Like, you don't know what to do. But I left.

I don't even know how I got out of the house, but I left, and I was-

That's amazing that you left

... driving my-

That's great

... yeah, 'cause it would've ended really badly.

But I was driving my Ford Fiesta that I was

renting, like, up Laurel Canyon, and I was so

angry with myself that I didn't say something. You know?

Right.

I was like, "Why? I'm not that kind of girl.

Like, why did I not-

Mm

... tell him to go fuck himself?" Like, it made me so angry.

You know why? Because in the moment, if you're a decent human being, even, you

can't believe what's happening to you.

Yeah.

And you feel like you should be polite.

Yeah.

It's weird. And then afterwards you go, "Why am I so fucking polite?"

Yeah. Exactly.

Why am I such a good boy or a good girl?

Like, like, like why-

You're like, and people get, like, murdered because they're polite.

There's like-

Yeah

... uh, there's, like, books about how, like, most people would rather not

be impolite and, and keep themselves out of

mortal danger-

Right

... than potentially, like, hurt someone else's feelings.

Feelings. Yeah.

Yeah.

Which is crazy.

It took me eight years for this thing to come full circle, 'cause he offered me

a job.

Whoa.

Oh.

And I, I went purely just to

have my moment-

Oh

... where he said, "Nice to meet you." And I said, "No, we've met before."

Whoa.

Whoa.

And he had no recollection of it.

Wow.

And his producing partner was standing right next to him, and he

was embarrassed.

Which by the way, it shows you how many women he did it to.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

He doesn't even remember.

Yeah.

Like, it was not a one-off.

That's insane.

That is insane. The amount, the numbers.

So you mean literally he, he, now you're famous-

Yeah, had no idea

... "Hey, I wanna get Charlize Theron in a movie."

Yeah.

You walk in, and you finally said, "No, you met me, and here's what happened."

And I li- I went down the list. I said, "It was at 9:00 PM on a Saturday-

Ooh

... at your house. You were wearing pajamas."

Mm.

I went down the list.

Oh, wow.

Wow.

I had my moment.

What did he say?

Good for you.

He said, "Wow, I, I do not remember that." And I-

Yeah, I bet you he doesn't

Yeah, right.

I don't remember that. Conveniently, I forgot.

Oh my-