Vincent Gallo accused of holding sexually aggressive auditions on Golden State Killer movie
Three female actors reported the controversial director of The Brown Bunny for making sexually aggressive requirements for roles in The Policeman
Three female actors reported controversial filmmaker Vincent Gallo to the Screen Actors Guild for making sexually explicit comments during the audition process of his new film, The Policeman. Gallo, who gained infamy for receiving unsimulated oral sex from Chloë Sevigny in his film The Brown Bunny, plays Joseph James DeAngelo, a.k.a. The Golden State Killer, in The Policeman and used the character to fulfill his “torture porn fantasies,” according to one of the reports.
Per Rolling Stone’s report, Gallo withheld job offers from actors unless frontrunners for the film submitted to his demands. Gallo is not the film’s director; Policeman was written and directed by Jordan Gertner, and co-stars James Franco, who, like Gallo, has been accused of sexual harassment by former actors and acting students under his direction.
In the complaint to SAG, one actor writes that Gallow told her, “If I say to suck my dick or I will kill you, I want you, you the person, not you the character, not you the actor, but you, to truly believe you will die if you don’t do as I say. And just like you would in real life, if this were happening to you, I want you to do all of the actions necessary to do that. You won’t actually suck my dick, but you do not have the power, I have all the power. You have no control, I am in complete control.”