I am an Actor, a starter at that, unmarried, independent by choice and a woman who is struggling to prove her identity, even to her near and dear ones. I guess that explains my reasons to remain anonymous.

So I did my 4th film and my first with Alencier. I am sure I’ll see it’s our last association, ever.

I had immense respect for this artist, until I met him personally. His progressive and liberal approaches to what is happening around us, is just a mask of his perverted self.

The first incident happened on a lunch table. There was 3 of us. Myself, him and a co-actor. He described how a star, bigger than him, behaves to women around him as he kept ogling at my breasts. I got upset. But he advised me to be more social and asked me to see things more lightly. I didn’t respond to it. But I could feel it wasn’t safe to be around him.

The next came as a shock. He walked right into my room with a woman co-actor and advised me about the freedom of an artist and the importance of knowing our body. He insulted me for being so week irrespective of my theater background. My instincts asked me to throw him out of the room. But I decided to go with the flow, due to his seniority and the presence of a co-actor .

Third was when I was on my menstrual cycle and I was feeling tired and with the consent of the Director, took a break and when to my room. So I was resting in my room and heard this knock. I looked through the door hole and found Alencier there. Getting tensed, i called up the Director and asked for help. He said he will send some one. Alencier was repeatedly knocking and kicking on the door, that finally I opened the door, thinking I will jump out of the room.

I kept the call active so the Director could listen to any dialogues, whatsoever may happen. But as I opened, he pushed himself inside the room and locked it. He was drunk. I was standing there tensed and shocked and what not. He sat on my bed and repeated his theories on how strong theater artists are supposed to be. He got and walked close to me as I was trying to.find my voice to send him out. That’s when the doorbell rang.

He was the one who got shocked this time. I opened the door quickly and felt very relieved when I saw an assistant director at the door. He said next shot has Alencier in it. Alencier said he wasn’t informed before, but the assistant managed to convince Alencier that the whole crew was waiting. He had to leave.

Fourth was in the next schedule when a common friend invited for lunch and I saw him at the table. He ordered fish curry. He started comparing fish meat to a woman’s body each time he touched it, pinched out a piece, licked his fingers or ate it, and all the while ogling at me. Both of us, me and our common friend walked out of the table.

The same day, while shoot was on, he kept staring at me and some other girls in the set and every time he caught me by the eye, he showed me faces and rolled his tongue in all possible dirty manner of a sexually frustrated man.

The same evening, there was a party and I could see him going to women and describing endlessly about their body and sex. Whenever he came near me, i did my best to avoid him. I could see and hear him insulting women who is resisting his approach.

Again on another day, i was sleeping and it was after the night shift which got over at 6 am. I had a room mate that day. Our common friend. The door bell rang. She got up and went to open the door. It was Alencier.

They spoke for sometime and he left. My room mate said she will freshen up as she has lost her sleep and went to bath. But what really happened was that she forgot to lock the door, in that moment of jet lag.

Re-enter Alencier, like a creep, got into the bed sheet and came right behind me. Feeling a strange presence i woke up shocked. This man is lying so close to me and is asking “Are you sleeping?” I jumped up. But he caught me by hand and pulled me back saying “lie down for some more time”. I shouted at him with all my might and even my roommate heard me in the bath room and was asking “whats happening outside?” He said he was joking and went out before the roommate reentered.

My roommate who is his friend too got shocked when I told her what happened. She called him up to have a dialogue but he was just beating around the bush.

We reported the matter to the Director again who tried to confront Alencier. It was the Directors first movie and Alencier felt offended with the Directors confrontation. How he chose to avenge it was awful and very unprofessional. He messed up with shots and continuity, came drunk on set, abused co-actors and what not.

While I am writing this, i know there are more women in the same film and other films who have lot more stories to share about the real Alencier. It took a lot of time and trauma to put this on mail and I understand others, who went through similar or worse situations, will take their own time.

#metoo

Note: The incident detailed above is an anonymous account of an actor who has chosen to share her story through India Protests.

The screenshots of the victim’s conversation with a representative of India Protests