Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino has said she was gagged with a condom by a casting director during an audition when she was 16 years old.

Sorvino, 50, said she was trying out for a part in a horror movie when the casting director, who she did not name, tied her to chair and then shoved a condom in her mouth.

“In order to scare me for this horror movie scene, he tied me to a chair, he bruised my arm and, I was 16 years old, 
and then he gagged me, and I was all game because I’m trying to be scared for the scene. And at the end, he takes the gag out of my mouth and he said, ‘Sorry for the prophylactic.’ So he had gagged me with a condom.”

The actress, speaking on a Hollywood Foreign Press Association podcast, added: “I was too young, thank God, to know what a condom tasted like. It was so inappropriate. And what the heck was a casting director doing with a condom in his pocket?”

Sorvino, who won the best supporting actress Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite (1995), was one of the first actresses to go public with allegations against Harvey Weinstein. The audition inciden did not, however, involve the disgraced movie boss.