Chloe Sevigny Talks Sexual Harassment, Says Three Major Directors 'Crossed the Line' During Audition
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The 41-year-old actress reveals during Variety's Cannes Film Festival panel that a director asked her out for some shopping while another one told her to show her body more and got naked on screen.

AceShowbiz - Chloe Sevigny opened up about sexual harassment in Hollywood. During Variety's Cannes Film Festival panel on Wednesday, May 18, Chloe revealed that three major directors "crossed the line" during auditions for film roles.

"I've had the 'what are you doing after this?' conversation," Chloe recalled, "I've also had the 'do you want to go shopping and try on some clothes and, like, I can buy you something in the dressing room' [conversation]. Just like crossing the line weirdness."

At another point, the 41-year-old actress remembered a director told her, "You should show your body off more. You shouldn't wait until you're as old as this certain actress who had just been naked in a film, you should be naked on screen now."

"If you know my career, I've been naked in every movie," joked Chloe, who starred in some sexually explicit films like "Kids" and "The Brown Bunny".

Chloe believed she never got the roles because of her refusal to succumb their advances. She admitted that her experience would happen to other up-and-coming actresses. "If you're young and impressionable and really want the part, it might be a tempting avenue, but I hope not," she shared.

However, Chloe decided not to label the behavior sexual harassment. "I would consider it Hollywood," she explained, "Was it sexual harassment? It's such a fine line."

During the panel, the "Kitty" director discussed different standard that female directors had. "When women on set become a little emotional, or impassioned even, they're labeled as hysterical or crazy and have a hard time getting hired again," she shared, "The double standard of the man being the wild, crazy, mad director is so embraced. We have to allow women to act out... and just be ourselves."

Talking about recent flop "The Huntsman: Winter's War" starring Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt and Charlize Theron, Chloe said, "It has those three great actresses and then the male lead [Chris Hemsworth], but I was just like they should have had better material for those ladies. Now that movie probably, I don't think is performing well, and then will they make another movie with three great powerful women after that?"

Chloe also expressed her disappointment regarding "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Rey's figurines. "They made the figurines and there was no Rey figurines, that was extremely troubling," she shared.

Asked about performing oral sex scene on Vincent Gallo in "Brown Bunny", Chloe said, "I'd probably still do it today. I believe in Vincent as an artist and I stand by the film. It was a subversive act. It was a risk. And I think it was a way of me staying outside the business in a weird way, but also doing what I want to do in the business."

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