Is this case just Xiao's revenge for not getting the role or Xiao's bravery to reveal the hidden rules of the entertainment circle in China? Have you say!China's entertainment industry is facing another sex scandal as a 22-year-old actress claims a director of the China Central Television (CCTV) asked her to sleep with him in return for a role in the TV drama "Painter Village".
Xiao Qiong said on her blog [click here to read her post in Chinese] that director Yang Yichao [photo] hinted that she might become one of the heroins in "Painter Village" if she had sex with him. The director later took back his offer after his request was turned down, the actress claimed.
Xiao wrote on her blog that she met Yang through an interview for a role in the "Painter Village" at the end of last year. After their first meeting, Yang often sent her text messages, with some of them salacious. The director also told her adult jokes while they sometimes met and went out to eat together, the actress revealed.
"He said he is interested in me, and he gazed at me all the time," Xiao said. The director even said, anyone could get the role, she claimed. But, he hinted that the actress must sleep with him in order to get it, according to Xiao.
Xiao refused the director's demand, and lost the chance of being one of the lead actresses in the TV drama.
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