News Summary

• 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 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..
• None of these requests, which include physically attacking and restraining actors as well as simulated rape and assault, were discussed prior nor in the presence of an intimacy coordinator..
• “I may ask you to get nude at any time, and I need an actress who is going to do it, because that’s what the victim would’ve done to stay alive,” one accuser claims Gallo said..
• Per Rolling Stone’s report, Gallo withheld job offers from actors unless frontrunners for the film submitted to his demands..
• The Golden State Killer, in The Policeman and used the character to fulfill his “torture porn fantasies,” according to one of the reports..