For a TV series that's become shorthand for the industry's blind focus on male-skewed titillation, Alison Brie's casting couch revelation is hardly surprising.

Brie, best known for her roles on Community and Mad Men, has said she was once asked to go topless during an audition for the HBO hit Entourage.

"Early in my career, I auditioned for three lines on an episode of Entourage that I had to go on in a bikini or like shorts and the tiniest shirt," she said.

"And they were like, 'Okay, can you take your top off now?'"