Historically tales of the casting coach have been about older men taking advantage of younger actresses, trying to get them to do sexual favours with the promise of roles (and sometimes that otherwise they’d be blacklisted), but in more recent years, more male actors have felt able to say it’s been the same for them. However it turns out that this isn’t just a Hollwood phenomenon, as it’s going on in India too.
Ranveer Singh, who’s appeared in the likes of Band Baaja Baaraat, has opened about about what happened to him as a young actor, during a meeting with a castins director. The older man ignored his portfolio, with Ranveer recounting, “He just kept it to the side and said ’You have to be smart. You have to be sexy. Take. Touch.’
“I was in complete shock. Then he has the gall to negotiate with me. He says, ’Okay, we won’t do anything. Just let me touch it.’ Later he says ’Okay, okay, I’ll only see it.’ I was like, ’Uhh, no.’ And he was heartbroken when I left, like a jilted lover.”
Singh later discovered that he wasn’t the only one who’d had a similar experience with that casting director, as many other young men said the same thing had happened to them. Take a look at Ranveer talking about his experience below.
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