I worked in that industry at a low level for a few years. It's beyond sick. The modeling industry is the same. There are so many sickos out there. The casting couch stuff is real and has a further reach than anyone can imagine.
People trying to get into the industry are the easiest prey. They're green. They're desperate to just get some contact in the business to hope for that big break. But you'll hardly meet anyone who would do something for you without expecting something. And it's not just girls. It's guys too. Terry Crews touched on it. You'd be blown away or maybe you wouldn't, when you find out how many people are bisexual out there or just straight up weird.
I worked a music video with a girl for a rap video where she'd get called by Jerry Bruckenheimer like an appointment and he'd lay down like a plastic wrap in his office and wanted to watch her use the restroom. Sick stuff like that.
Hollywood is an illusion. We see what they want us to see. For us in the Midwest, we fantasize about those places growing up but it's a lie. Even Hollywood Blvd where they have the Oscars, they don't show you what's on the other side of the street. They put up hufe black tarps so the cameras don't show you how skanky it is, how many bums are there, how it smells like piss, how it's a mixture of adult shops, dirty hole in the wall type stores.
