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Lydia Forson recounts movie producer asking to see her breast during audition
Forson told the BBC, after a powerful Hollywood movie producer, Harvey Weinstein, faced allegations of sexual misconduct from more than a dozen women and three of rape, that she walked out following the demand.
“Earlier in my career just once, small time producer who asked to see my breast for a role I was auditioning for and I said NO and walked out," she told the BBC.
According to her, sexual harassment is common and cuts across everywhere, saying women face sexual advances from men in powerful positions.
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“It’s unfortunate that it’s very common but it cuts across everywhere. Women are subjected to unwanted sexual advances from men in powerful positions especially who want to take advantage of their vulnerability," she said.
"In Africa where there’s a lot of poverty and people are looking for jobs, they know how to feed on peoples desperation.”
She also narrated a harrowing experience of a young lady who walked up to her to complain of sexual advances from movie producers.
“An actress walked up to me and said she’s been trying to break up into the industry for several years but every producer wants to sleep with her and they named some big actresses that they slept with before giving them roles and threaten them if they refuse to cooperate,” Lydia Forson added.
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According to her, the only means to end this abuse is to speak up.
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