The actress says that laughing it off was the expected response. “We’re conditioned to giggle,” she said. “But also, if we were to do anything else, we’d be labeled a bitch or difficult. That would be the best of circumstances. I guess what I do is I laugh. It puts everyone else at ease when I feel incredibly uncomfortable. That’s the defense model you go into.”
That isn’t the only time Faris experienced sexual harassment in the industry. The same director reportedly told her agent that she was hired for the project not for her acting ability but for her “great legs.”
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“Listen, that’s a fucking great compliment. I like my legs,” she said. “But that sort of informed my whole experience with that whole project. I don’t think the male lead got hired because he had great legs. Therefore I felt like I’m hired because of these elements—not because of [talent].”