List Of Bollywood Actors Who Experienced Casting Couch Too; You Won’t Believe It
Casting a couch is one of the harshest realities of Bollywood. Some stay quiet about it, while some raise their voice against it. Here are celebrities who have spoken about facing the casting couch
A casting couch is when a person asks actors for sexual advances in exchange for a role. Many have claimed to face the horrifying casting couch experience as they have faced it themselves. Many actors have come out sharing their experiences and have been said to be traumatized by the experiences. Here are the actors who faced it themselves–
Ranveer Singh
Ranveer Singh, one of the leading actors in Bollywood, said that he once faced the casting couch in his early days as a struggling actor. Ranveer said a casting director invited him to his Andheri apartment. When he went there, he realized that the casting director had other intentions and asked Ranveer to compromise and be open to the compromise. Ranveer said no to the demands but pointed out that the casting director still works and does it daily.
Ayushmann Khurrana
Ayushmann Khurrana is one of the greatest actors of the generation. He is famous for his roles in creative films. Once Ayushmann revealed that he faced the casting couch by a casting director and was asked to show his private parts to him in exchange for the role. The actor politely refused to give in to the casting couch.
Radhika Apte
One of the best actresses who had done defying roles in Bollywood once revealed that she got a call for doing a film in Bollywood and the casting director wanted to sleep with the film maker, to which the actress replied very harshly. She asked him to go to hell and that she’d never work for the person.
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We hope actors stay away from the casting couch and hope that the people who do it get caught.