Did You Know Kalki Koechlin Faced Casting Couch At Cannes Film Festival When She Was A Student?
Kalki Koechlin is known for her films like Margarita With A Straw and Shanghai among thers.
Many actors have spoken up about the casting couch in the film industry, which happens to be a dark side of this business. Just listening to these stories can make you uncomfortable. In another revelation, actor Kalki Koechlin has opened up about a disturbing casting couch experience at the Cannes Film Festival when she was just a student. The interaction was with a producer, as per the actor. Read on to know more.
What Did Kalki Koechlin Say?
Kalki Koechlin is quite vocal about her opinions and often shares some shocking incidents that have happened with her during the course of being an actor. In an interview with Zoom, she recalled a casting couch experience at the Cannes Film Festival when a producer made some indecent proposals. The actor revealed that she was just a student who was promoting a Nokia phone at the Cannes Film Festival when she ran into a producer, who knew the actor through her mother’s mutual conncection. As per Kalki, the producer invited her to a film screening and when she inquired about the acting career, the producer in response said that she had to ‘be with him’ for making the career possible.
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Furthermore, Kalki Koechlin also added other casting couch experiences that she had to go through during her initial days as an actor in Mumbai and how a director once told her that he needed to know her better before giving her the role.
Kalki Koechlin has done some amazing work in the film industry with movies like Margarita With A Straw, Shanghai, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, among others.
First Published: July 21, 2025 3:59 PM
