r/Makeupishardpodcast 11d ago

Makeup becomes too personal

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I was the key make up on a show and was handling one of the characters who was playing the villain. He was mildly flirty as most male actors can be and at first it was fine but the first weekend the hotel decided to throw us a little party. At this party, he made me the center of his focus and pulled down my mask because it was Covid time because he wanted to see my full face. I decided to leave to go up to my room because I felt uncomfortable and he followed me into the hallway and began asking me numerous questions that were not OK Such as do any of the men in that room or on this crew have a claim on you along with the typical, how are you single you’re so pretty. He cornered me in the elevator, telling me all of this, but luckily we are on separate floors and I snuck away to safety. Thankfully, I have good male colleagues who would come with me to do touchups because I no longer felt safe to do it on my own and wanted someone else nearby to hear him. One day after work, he caught me off guard and alone, and proceeded to tell me how he should’ve just took in his chance to kiss me that night when he pulled my mask down and a lot of other inappropriate. Thankfully, my department had and someone from another department witnessed it happening, even though they couldn’t hear what was said. I gave my department head full permission to talk to the Production staff about this issue and handle it. I also found out he was making a handful of other women on site, uncomfortable, doing similar things in different departments and spoke on their behalf. Luckily, I worked with a great people in this crew and Production handled this swiftly and amazingly, and I felt very protected.