Michigander and actress Melissa Gilbert is speaking out about an experience she had with director Oliver Stone.
Melissa Gilbert joined Megyn Kelly TODAY to talk about a traumatic experience she said she had with director Oliver Stone, alleging that her audition for the movie “The Doors” turned into a demeaning experience that reduced her to tears.
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“I read the script and he asked me to do a scene that he had just written and it was really sexual, very graphic scene,” Gilbert recalled on TODAY.
“The casting woman had left the room. I was alone with him and an actor and he asked me not only to read it, but stage it. To get down on my hands and knees and deliver this really horrendous dialogue. It was really sprung on me and I started to cry. He said, ‘Good that will make it better’ and I left.”
Gilbert talked about what could be done to help prevent future instances of abuse.
“Every day, someone has another story in some way. It’s not just us. It’s all across the country and the world. So, now the question is what are we going to do about it? I think, because the focus is on Hollywood and on the entertainment industry in general, it starts here," she said.
"It starts with some sort of commission that we create to create the boundaries and the rules and what they are now and create the safe place where people can come to report and get justice. Then we change the laws to protect the victims and not the perpetrators."
“What we need to do is create this entity that is beyond unions and beyond the studios and beyond the networks that people like you, like me, like everybody that works for these entities can come to where they can get justice and help and be heard. We need to set what these rules are."