Hollywood Vets Share Their Most Messed-Up Experience

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Hollywood Vets Share Their Most Messed-Up Experience

Everyone knows that plenty of shady business goes on behind the scenes in Hollywood. But just how bad is it?

Published 1 year ago in Wtf

Everyone knows that plenty of shady business goes on behind the scenes in Hollywood. But just how bad is it? Worse than you think.

These 20 movie biz industry insiders decided to share the most messed up things they ever saw on the job, and unfortunately for them, there were no directors to yell cut.

1
My married executive producer texting me at three in the morning in an attempt to get me to sleep with him, (absolutely didn't happen). Then was then upset when I told everyone, and tried to say it was a joke, and that I should lighten up.

2
I was 20 or 21 and about to board a plane to film a low budget shoot in Romania. As I was getting into the van to the airport, a producer came up to me with a blank envelope.

"Hey, I need you to give this to the producer, Vlad, when you get there."

"What is it?"

"$25,000 in cash. Don't declare it at customs."

I was a kid, so I did it.

3
Commercial shoot with bodybuilders. The producer asked the client on set if they wanted to be oil boys and lube up the bodybuilders. They gladly took up the offer and spent 30 minutes oiling up the bodybuilders, who had no choice but just to take it even though I could tell they weren't comfortable. At the time, everyone was laughing and joking around, including the bodybuilders, but looking back, it was pretty messed up to put them in that situation.

4
Seeing Lindsay Lohan doing lines of coke off the back of a toilet in a club bathroom - this was during the height of the "fire fotch" incident.

5
A creepy EP that allowed rumors to spread that he was sleeping with me, and when I asked him to clear it up, he chuckled and patted my head saying something along the lines of "oh they won't believe me anyway."

6
On a reality shoot, I saw a cast member get groped by a rando on camera, and the EP didn’t let me shut it down, intervene or at least pause filming once the guy left so she could process off camera and decide if she wanted to continue.

7
Ty Pennington, while he was in a relationship during Extreme Home Makeover, having local production assistants and promising to set them up in LA. One of which ended up pregnant and was forced to have an abortion by him.

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The most messed up thing is watching a 22-year-old PA climbing into a big white box truck at the end of a 14 hour shoot at 1 am and driving back from the boonies after crushing a few beers and a couple bumps. I've heard of some bad accidents involving sleep-deprived grunts trying to break in.

9
Production assistant here. Had to sign so many NDAs about celebrities doing hard drugs between takes. The worst was watching them pressure young actresses into joining them. Some of these girls were barely 18.

10
An older (50s/60s) director of photography was clearly sleeping with the 18 year old, very naive, AC who came to me asking if I could take her to get Plan B, and if I could help her find an OBGYN because she had never been to one, and her family wouldn't allow it. The (female) EP & Production Manager knew and encouraged it.

11
I don't work in the industry but know a bunch of people who do. My favorite story is that the filming of “Black Hawk Down” was delayed because Tom Sizemore got a really nasty infection on his face when a Moroccan prostitute peed on his face. Apparently that's the reason he keeps his helmet on the whole movie.

12
I didn't witness this firsthand, but I was a production coordinator on a show where one of the cameramen followed an actress back to her hotel room and tried to sexually assault her. Fortunately she was able to fight him off and get help. He was fired and charged, and she quit because she didn't feel safe anymore. The guy had a 20 year career and I can't imagine this was the first time he'd done something, but it was definitely the first time anyone found out. Terrifying. I don't know what happened to the actress after she left the show. I hope she's doing well.

13
Worked on a movie set where a white stunt double showed up for Jonathan Majors and was in blackface. I think the excuse was they couldn’t find a black stunt double in New Mexico but he was (understandably) angry and it made everyone super uncomfortable.

14
Honestly the horrible things that paparazzi scream at celebrities to get a response. It’s atrocious the horrible and abusive things that they scream in their face for a reaction.