TV actress and Bigg Boss 14 fame Jasmine Bhasin recalls a harrowing casting couch experience during the early days of her career and how she managed to run away. Read on to know about it.
Popular Indian television actress Jasmine Bhasin has starred in a number of shows, including Dil Se Dil Tak, Tashan-e-Ishq, and Naagin. Jasmine, the Bigg Boss 14 fame, recently talked about her unsettling early professional experience facing the casting couch in a hotel room. Jasmine Bhasin recently had an open and sincere conversation on The Himanshu Mehta Show. Jasmine talked about her terrible experience of arriving at a hotel in Juhu for a casting appointment and seeing a lot of other girls in the lobby. She stated that as she entered the room, she noticed a man drinking, and the coordinator quickly left the room.
Jasmine recalls scary audition experience
After that, the director instructed Jasmine to act out a scene. Jasmine, scared, requested if she might prepare it and perform it the next day, but the director refused. She said, “I went for the meeting. First of all, I got scared seeing a man having a drink and telling me audition, and even the coordinator also left the room. So first, I got scared. After that, he told me, ‘You have to do this scene.’ So I told him, ‘Sir, okay, I will prepare the scene and I will come back tomorrow.’ He said, ‘No, no, you have to do it now.’ So I did it.”
How Jasmine Escaped from the audition?
Jasmine went on to say that the director rejected the scene she had done and insisted on a more physical performance, which required her to get up and act out the action. She remembered that after giving her an example, he locked her and threatened to harm Jasmine because he was not happy. However, she made a clever escape from there. Ever since, Jasmine has been adamant about never attending an audition at a hotel.
She said, “He told me, ‘No, not like this.’ I mean, he was basically telling me to stand up and… he told me a scene, for example, ‘Your lover is going, you have to stop him.’ So I did that. He said, ‘No, not like this.’ You have to… he locked me and kind of… he was trying to do something else, but okay, then I used my skills and I ran off from there. And that day, I decided, okay, no meetings are happening in a hotel room, never in life, never.”
Jasmine Bhasin opens up on casting couch
Jasmine Bhasin acknowledged in the same podcast that casting couches do exist on the business, but she clarified that they are merely random individuals acting in their own best interests rather than casting directors.
She also clarified that this typically occurs to someone who is in dire need of employment and that desperation drives them to the wrong places.
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