Thandie has a great story about crap she went through in an audition. My only problem is when people pull this nonsense, NO ONE GIVES NAMES!!! Why not tell us who it was?
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/bestoftv/2013/02/14/ctw-new ton-abuse.cnn
Amy: I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
@jjoseph
There's no point in her having made it up, and it's been well established that there ARE sleazy folks in the business who will pull that kind of BS on young and naive people just entering the business (young women in particular.) I'm thinking that she just didn't want to even give the guy's name because it wasn't even worth it. And, yeah, you'd think that the casting director---a woman being in the room with her, would have told her that she didn't have to do anything she wasn't comfortable with in the first place,but I guess all the casting director cared about was her job. Pretty damn disturbing to find out that after someone filmed an uncomfortable audition of you, that they then spent years passing it around without your knowledge for others to see for the wrong reasons. She was clearly taken advantage of as a young, naive teenage girl just getting into the business, and what's messed up about it is that she didn't even find out about it until well after the fact. At least the internet as we know it now didn't exist back then (early '90s) or the tape would have ended up online--that would have been even more messed up.
BTW, Ms. Newton just appeared on the Tavis Smiley program,where she goes into even more detail about her background and how that played a part in the difficult,demanding, but challenging roles that she chooses---I like her work as an actress, so I really enjoyed it.
I believe it definitely happened. But I think it would cause some huge chain of events that could cause absolute chaos if names were given. Plus if all these top executives are friends, it could destroy careers and you'll never be hired again if you're a known snitch. They are all friends at the top and control everything. Even if you want to get the person that did it.. who knows how high up they are, they could be untouchable or make your life a living hell. Who knows.. but these people that allude to the story but mention no names must have their own reason for doing so.
There is a similar sexual abuse story told by Cory Feldman if I remember correctly.. the two Cory's a they were known, apparently got passed around pedophiles in Hollywood when they were kids.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3611046/I-molested-passed-Corey-Feldman-details-horrors-Hollywood-pedophile-ring-reveals-Corey-Haim-just-11-raped-leading-life-drugs.html