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Mickey Rourke has also blasted Hollywood’s casting couch culture by insisting that many directors abuse their position to lure aspiring young actresses into the sack. He’s also fed up with seeing glamorous girls landing roles without ever auditioning. “There’s definitely something called a casting couch,” he said. “I did it the old-fashioned way: I went to acting school and broke my ass, studied hard.”
But while the casting couch may be the ultimate Tinseltown cliché and a potential launch pad to stardom, the sordid world that spirals around it is anything but glamorous.
In January, movie director and Academy Award-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks was accused of using the lure of the audition to sexually assault at least four women at his home.
When aspiring actresses responded to an audition call, it is alleged that Brooks, 70, told them that they would be playing a prostitute and would have them drink shots and perform sex acts on him, said police.
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