History PlayingWith / CastingCouch

* '''Exploited''': Bob takes advantage of Alice's wilfulness, and begins to abuse her.

* '''Played for Drama''': Alice must choose between her dignity and her career.

* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob makes some of the actresses ([[BiTheWay and some of the actors]]) sleep with him, but not the better actors or [[EveryoneHasStandards those with whom he has pre-existing relationships]].

** Bob asks only to see Alice nude before he casts her.

* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob makes some of the actresses ([[BiTheWay and some of the actors]]) sleep with him, but not the better actors.

* '''Enforced''': "We need to show the viewers the evils of Hollywood]]!"

* '''Deconstructed''': Because this involves SexualExtortion (i.e. blackmailing someone into sex), this technically counts as [[SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes rape]].

** Alice will get to have sex with Bob if she gets casted.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob makes some of the actresses ([[BiTheWay and some of the actors]]) sleep with him, but not the better actors.

* '''Enforced''': "We need to show the viewers the evils of Hollywood!"

* '''Exploited''': Bob takes advantage of Alice's wilfuness, and begins to abuse her.

** Or, Alice refuses and goes looking for acting work elsewhere.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is ''very'' HollywoodHomely.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice must choose between her dignity and her career.
* '''Implied''': Alice gets the part after an unspecified ordeal that leaves her very bedraggled.

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** If Alice sleeps with Bob, she will not get the role she wants (e.g. a SecretTestOfCharacter).

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

Back to CastingCouch

* '''Straight''': Alice is auditioning for the lead role in a play, and is told she must have sex with the director.
* '''Exaggerated''':

* '''Downplayed''': Alice gets the part first, but is harassed by the director.

** The director must have sex with Alice if he wants her to be part of the cast.
** If Alice sleeps with the director, she will not get the role she wants (e.g. a SecretTestOfCharacter).
** Taking it a step further, Alice makes one too many unwanted advances towards the director, and is told that if she doesn't knock it off, they'll kick her off the project.

** Alice refuses to have sex with the director.
** The director ''does'' make a pass at Alice, but he still gives her the part when she refuses.

* '''Parodied'''
** All the female characters form a harem for the director.

* '''Averted''': Sexual favors of any kind do not factor into Alice getting the role

* '''Invoked''': The director gets a RagingStiffie for Alice and tells her she'll get the role she wants, in order to make her more willing to sleep with him.

** The director feels this is wrong and doesn't do this.

* '''Discussed''': "So, I heard Alice slept with the director to get the role..."
* '''Conversed''': "[[AndThatsTerrible Ugh, disgusting]]. Whatever happened to casting people based on their acting talent, rather than their talent in bed?"

* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is ''very'' HollywoodHomely

* '''Subverted''': Alice refuses to have sex with the director.
** The director ''does'' make a pass at Alice, but her still gives her the part when she refuses.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Played Straight''': Alice is auditioning for the lead role in a play, and is told she must have sex with the director.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[SexualExtortion If she refuses]], not only will she not get the part, she will be blacklisted and basically unable to pursue her [[LifelongDream acting career]].

*** Taking it a step further, Alice makes one too many unwanted advances towards the director, and is told that if she doesn't knock it off, they'll kick her off the project.

* '''Double Subverted''': Because of her refusal, Alice is cast as an {{Extra}} instead of the lead, or cut from the cast entirely.
* '''Deconstructed''': Because this involves SexualExtortion (i.e. blackmailing someone into sex), this technically counts as [[SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes rape]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice goes to find work elsewhere. It may not be easy, but she won't be reduced to what's basically a whitewashed prostitute for it.

** All the female characters form a harem for the director.

* '''Lampshaded''': "If you want this role, you must do one thing: sleep with me, right here and now."

* '''Enforced''':

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice must choose between her dignity and her career.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Because this involves SexualExtortion (i.e. blackmailing someone into sex), this technically counts as [[RapeTropes rape]].

* '''Justified''': Alice is auditioning for a role in [[PornTropes the adult entertainment industry]].
* '''Inverted''': The director must have sex with Alice if he wants her to be part of the cast.

* '''Parodied''': All the female characters form a harem for the director.

* '''Defied''': The director feels this is wrong and doesn't do this.

* '''Basic Trope''': A character wants to get a part in a [[ShowWithinAShow TV show/movie/play]] and must have sex with a producer or casting director to do so.