Mira Sorvino claims that a casting director gagged her with a condom when she was 16 years old

Mira Sorvino is one of many women and men in Hollywood who recently denounced badual misconduct, but her experience of badual harbadment began long before. On Wednesday, Sorvino claimed that a casting director would have gagged her with a condom during an audition while she was only 16, as reported by People . The actor made this allegation during an appearance on the HPFA In Conversation podcast of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Bustle reached out to Sorvino's representative to comment, but did not receive an immediate response.

"Looking back at my career, I realized that one of my first auditions when I was 16, I was completely treated According to the actor People "to scare me for this horror movie scene, he m tied me to a chair, he bruised my arm and I was 16 years old , and then he muzzled me, and I was all gambling because I'm trying to be scared for the scene. "

Sorvino, best known for her role in 1995 Mighty Aphrodite for which she won an Academy Award, did not name the man in question, but alleged that He admitted that he had used a condom to gag him. "And in the end, he pulled the gag from my mouth and said," Sorry for the prophylaxis, "she said," then he I had gagged with a condom. "I was too young to even know, thank God, what a condom looked like.It was so inappropriate, and what the heck was a casting director doing with a condom in his pocket in an audition? "

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Sorvino also alleged that there were several times that casting officers or directors offered him a role in exchange for a personal relationship, and that she had lost roles after refusing them ed.

She mentioned, but did not name, a "great director who has Oscars and is known for his social justice. The profile of some of these movies literally told me when I was in the world. an audition meeting at the final stage: "You know, when I look at you, my mind can not stop traveling from artistic possibilities to baduality. I think my mouth has just opened and my silence is deafening. "

Sorvino became one of the strongest and most engaging voices of the #MeToo and Time's Moves Up after she became one of the first protagonists in a interview with The New Yorker in October 2017, she states that Weinstein – who produced Mighty Aphrodite – harbaded her at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1995. She Weinstein has since been accused of various forms of badual misconduct by dozens of women and, in December, Weinstein issued a statement through his attorney denying any allegation of "badual badault". Sorvino, who has beaten professionally after his Oscar win, also claimed that Weinstein had blacklisted various projects over the years. "The New Yorker on how his career went unrealized, "but I felt really freezing and that my rejection of Harvey had something to do with it. Weinstein denied these allegations, saying in a statement from his spokesman released to The Daily Mail . Weinstein did not put Mira Sorvino on blacklist. "

Putting aside Sorvino's story with Weinstein, Sorvino's disturbing claim against another man in the industry only makes underline the extent of badual misconduct in Hollywood

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