Blind Gossip Exclusive Blind Item - The Hunting Ground

Aspiring actors take acting classes to learn how to act. But what if the teacher of those classes has his own twisted agenda?

This very well-known actor stars in both film and TV projects. He teaches acting on the side.

We’re being told that some very questionable activity goes on in his acting classes. Here are some examples from former students:

-The first day of class, he told us to take off all our clothes so we could learn how to be comfortable being vulnerable in front of the camera.
-He says the sex scenes are “art” and that if you want to be a real “artist” you have to be comfortable with taking your clothes off and having sex on camera.
-He uses the class as his own personal casting couch for him and his friends. He introduces you to his other “teacher” friends  or his “producer” friends who pretend to want to help you with your craft or with getting roles, but they always just want to have sex.
-He has you take your clothes off, and he takes his clothes off, too. If you don’t do the fake sex scene with him, he will throw you out out of class.
-I’ve been on film sets before and unless you are doing p*rn, there is absolutely no reason for actors to be totally nude. We should have had pasties or c*ck socks. The whole thing just felt wrong.
-One day it got so creepy that our entire class walked out.
-He offers some of the female students roles in unpaid films. You show up on the set and you have to sign an NDA. Then he tells you – surprise! – you need to do an improvised sex scene with him. If you refuse, you get fired, and because you have an NDA, you can’t tell anyone about it.
-He had the women on the set of [name of film] wear dental dams, and not in their mouths. You shouldn’t have to wear a dental dam for a simulated sex scene.
-Some of the kids in the class are only 17 or 18 years old and are very naive and just want to make it in the business. He’s famous so they just do what he tells them. I think he counts on this to take advantage of them.
-Some of the students complained to the school about him and his friends and what they were forcing the students to do, but the school just kicked out the students.

This doesn’t sound like an acting school. This sounds like a hunting ground.

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