Chloë Sevigny Says Three Major Hollywood Directors 'Crossed The Line' With Her

Chloë Sevigny has said that three major Hollywood directors had ‘crossed the line’ with her during meetings to discuss potential film roles.

During a panel discussion at the Cannes Film Festival organised by Variety magazine, she detailed a number of inappropriate situations she had found herself in over the years.

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“I’ve had the 'what are you doing after this?’ conversation,” she said yesterday.

“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’. Just like crossing-the-line weirdness. I did not get the parts obviously.

“If you’re young and impressionable and really want the part, it might be a tempting avenue, but I hope not.”

She also recalled that on another occasion, a director advised her that she should appear naked more.

“'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’,” she added.

“If you know my career, I’ve been naked in every movie,” she then joked.

Asked if she considered the instances to be sexual harassment, she said: “I would consider it Hollywood. Was it sexual harassment? It’s such a fine line.”

Sevigny has appeared in a number of movies featuring scenes of an explicit nature, notably the controversial 'Kids’ and 'The Brown Bunny’, in which she performed un-simulated oral sex on the movie’s director and star Vincent Gallo.

Of that, she 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.”

She added that she has been frustrated with the inequality of the movie business 'for over 20 years’.

“[Look at] the award ceremonies and how unfairly the women are judged over the men in their tuxedos,” she said.

“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.

“The double standard of the man being the wild, crazy, mad director is so embraced.”

Sevigny, who was Oscar-nominated for her role in the 1999 movie ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, is at Cannes promoting her directorial debut, a short film called ‘Kitty’.

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