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"Thandie Newton has spoken about being &amp;quot;objectified&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;exploited&amp;quot; by an unnamed director during a casting session as a teenager. The actress, who has been promoting the One Billion Rising anti-violence campaign, told CNN that she understands how it feels to be mistreated and sexually exploited.  She revealed that one director - who she refused to name - had filmed her inappropriately during a casting session and proceeded to show the film at parties. Newton explained: &amp;quot;When I was a 16-year-old, fresh from boarding school, going out in, you know the casting couch, I was definitely objectified to an extreme. The way I was made to feel. The way I was exploited and the kind of role and the kinds of things I was expected to do in auditions. &amp;quot;One director asked me to sit with my legs apart - the camera was positioned where it could see up my skirt - to put my leg over the arm of the chair. Before I started my dialogue, [I was told to] think about the character I was supposed to be having the dialogue with and how it felt to be made love to by this person.   &amp;quot;I was thinking, &amp;#039;This is so strange, why would I need to do that?&amp;#039; But this is the director, there is the casting director, [it] must be normal.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;It turned out the director... used to show that video late at night to interested parties at his house - a video of me touching myself with a camera up my skirt.&amp;quot; One Billion Rising marked the 15th anniversary of V-Day, a campaign to end violence against women and girls, on February 14. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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