Mira Sorvino Details Sexual Harassment Experiences
by EG
Mira Sorvino, who won an Oscar for her work in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, is giving graphic details about the sexual harassment she suffered at the hands of men in Hollywood while she was still a teenager. Sorvino has been one of the most outspoken actresses who claim that they were sexually assaulted by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. Read on for the details of Mira's story.
Via Page Six.
Mira Sorvino is opening up about sexual harassment in Hollywood.
In an interview with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s “HFPA In Conversation” podcast on Wednesday, the Academy Award-winning actress, who has previously been outspoken in support of the #MeToo movement, shared her personal experience with harassment in the industry.
“In looking back over at my career, I realized that one of my very first auditions when I was 16, I was completely treated inappropriately by the casting director,” the now-50-year-old shared.
“In order to scare me for this horror movie scene, he tied me to a chair, he bruised my arm, and I was 16 years old, and then he gagged me, and I was all game because I’m trying to be scared for the scene,” she claimed.
“And at the end he takes the gag out of my mouth and he said, ‘Sorry for the prophylactic,’ so he had gagged me with a condom,” further alleged Sorvino, who did not name the casting director or movie.
“I was too young to even know, thank God, what a condom tasted like,” she added. “It was so inappropriate, and what the heck was a casting director doing with a condom in his pocket in an audition?”
Sorvino said that audition was one of her first “introductions to how the acting system works” and explained that “when you’re young, you don’t question.”
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