Courtney Thorne-Smith seemed again at her profession and recalled a specific second she skilled when she began.
The Melrose Place alum is opening up about an inappropriate encounter with a director in a film she did as a youngster.
“Certainly one of my first motion pictures, I used to be 17 years previous, and I used to be in Tahoe. And the storyline was, I used to be 17, and I used to be taking part in towards this man who was in his late thirties,” she did on the Nonetheless the Place podcast she co-hosts with Daphne Zunida and Laura Leighton. “We did sleep collectively within the script, and I wore one among his button-down shirts afterward.”
Thorne-Smith stated what she arrived on the set of the manufacturing she was uncomfortable with the “actually attractive negligee” costume she must put on and informed the director that was not within the script.
“And he stated, ‘Properly, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter,’” Thorne-Smith recalled. “Then I stated, ‘The way in which it’s minimize, one thing will present.’ And I additionally had this mindset of I’m 17 with an [older] man. Like I knew it was sort of off, however the shirt made it really feel alright.”
Thorne-Smith recalled {that a} producer informed her the crew stated she was “being a child” for not eager to put on the lingerie. The actress would name her agent and help her determination to not do something she was uncomfortable with.
Thorne-Smith stated she later came upon the producer “lied in regards to the crew” calling her a child and “each single member of the crew got here up and stated, ‘Good for you,” being grateful that they’d her again.
“I’m so grateful I had that capability to face up for myself at that age,” she stated. “I’m amazed, truly. I had that capability at that age.”
