This is all about the prevailing culture in Hollywood/the film industry.
In the rest of America, when a woman applies for a job and is informed that she will have to sleep with the boss to get the job, we are (rightly) outraged. Lawsuits, firings, etc. ensue.
But in Hollywood, people seem to expect this kind of gross extortion. People in “the industry” still speak jovially about the “casting couch” as if it were some sort of time-honored cultural institution. One imagines that Hollywood expects to be exempt from legal norms in the rest of the world in the same way that Eskimos are allowed to hunt whales.
It ‘is’ their time honored tradition. Same for the music industry. And the so-called “Christian music industry is every bit as bad.
I know personally a girl of awesome ability, who shall we say ‘blossomed spectacularly’ at around 15ish. Her parents quickly removed her from the industry when they refused to ‘meet the expectations’ of those in charge. A potential career was destroyed instantly, but a life was saved.