My name is Casey. I am the writer, director, and producer of the film, #MaleToo. The film is about Robert Porton, a model, along with the Law Firm, We Sue Law Offices, starts a sexual assault class action suit against workers in the modeling industry. In 1999/2000, I watched a model documentary on E! Network. There was a section in the documentary of male models discussing being "accidentally touched" while working. The models admitted it was an every day occasion that models speak about amongst themselves. They felt it was better to accept it then to do anything about it. In 2020 YouTube suggested a video to me and it was a male model sharing his tory of being assaulted numerous times while working. In 2021, AmazonPrime suggested a film to me and it was a documentary of male models discussing their good and bad experiences as a model and how it is normal to ignore the assault as a male model. After the third time this problem was presented to me I asked Holy Spirit what was...
#MaleToo is a film about the sexual assault against male models in the modeling industry. When I decided to create this film, the one thing that almost stopped me was my previous experience of producing zoom projects. I have produced one short film, a mini series, and a play reading via zoom, and I have had the same experiences with all of them and that is casting. With all three projects and #MaleToo I have had 3-4 times the people submit and still had issues casting. From people dropping out, to people "ghosting me," to people not returning emails, casting has been the must frustrating part of all of my zoom projects. I am sharing this because, when/if you see the film you will see me in it. I was NOT supposed to be in this film according to my plans. I had about 5-7 actors apply for Robbie using backstage.com and craigslist. Only one was a chance, the thing about him was he kept cancelling the zoom due to life's ups and downs. The rest, I am assuming got nervous about...
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