Molly Ringwald Recalls H’Wood Horror Stories

Molly Ringwald’s exposure to Harvey Weinstein was limited, but she had plenty of other predators to worry about. Here’s a snippet from the star’s New Yorker piece on sexual harassment in Hollywood:

In my twenties, I was blindsided during an audition when I was asked by the director, in a somewhat rhetorical manner, to let the lead actor put a dog collar around my neck. This was not remotely in the pages I had studied; I could not even fathom how it made sense in the story. The actor was a friend of mine, and I looked in his eyes with panic. He looked back at me with an “I’m really sorry” expression on his face as his hands reached out toward my neck. I don’t know if the collar ever made it on me, because that’s the closest I’ve had to an out-of-body experience. I’d like to think that I just walked out, but, more than likely, there’s an old VHS tape, disintegrating in a drawer somewhere, of me trying to remember lines with a dog collar around my neck in front of a young man I once had a crush on. I sobbed in the parking lot.

She has a lot more stories just like that; sadly, so too do hundreds of other actors.

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