While promoting her new Netflix series Glow at the ATX Television Festival, actress Alison Brie revealed that she was once asked to take off her top during an audition for an episode of the HBO series Entourage.
Alison opened up about her past audition experiences, shedding light on the sexism that is deeply rooted in the Hollywood community. “The audition process has not changed that much,” she said. “Early in my career, I auditioned for three lines on an episode of Entourage that I had to go on in a bikini! Or like shorts and the tiniest shorts. And they were like, ‘Okay, can you take your top off now?'”
Brie later clarified her comment on Twitter, saying she was wearing a bikini under her top, but fans were still shocked.
Re:Entourage – CLARIFICATION – I had a bikini top on UNDER my top. They didn’t ask me to get totally topless. Sorry to disappoint you!
— Alison Brie (@alisonbrie) June 12, 2017
Whatever the case, I don’t think I’ll be going back to Entourage for a while.
— KK Akuoku (@KKAkuoku) June 12, 2017
Just like Alison’s ’80s-set series Glow, sadly, it seems like the Hollywood audition process is stuck in the past.