Actress Mira Sorvino says casting director gagged her with a condom during an audition at age 16
The Oscar winner also called out ‘one big director’ known for his ‘social justice profile’ who made offensive remarks to her
American actress Mira Sorvino has claimed that a casting director gagged her with a condom during an audition at the age of 16.
The Oscar-winning star of Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite revealed in an interview with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s podcast that she was auditioning for a horror movie when the situation got out of hand.
“In looking back over at my career, I realised that one of my very first auditions when I was 16, I was completely treated inappropriately by the casting director,” she said. “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 continued: “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.
“I was too young to even know, thank God, what a condom tasted like. It was so inappropriate, and what the heck was a casting director doing with a condom in his pocket in an audition?”
