@katahooper: The Power Play No One Talks About in Costume Fittings 🎭 Jenny Beavan is right — some male actors refuse to wear underpants during costume fittings, and it’s not about comfort. It’s about power. As someone who’s worked in costume, I’ve seen how this behaviour shows up, who does it, and why it needs to stop. #storiesfromset #costumefitting #industryinsights #behindthescenes #filmtok
The way I would react with “it’s cold today isn’t it?” Every time I saw one. I couldn’t handle it.
2025-10-26 08:32:52
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relentlessyuki :
That’s so screwed up
2025-10-26 08:05:44
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lima_seonghwa :
Counter: HUMILIATE THEM
2025-10-26 14:26:30
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BlackCat1309 :
I'd make them feel insecure about it. I'd look at it funny or laugh if I see it or block my nose so to show it degrades them back
2025-10-26 12:08:35
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Maryjane :
It's ALWAYS the mid level performers that behave badly. I worked in a theatre that sometimes had big stars in the shows, the most successful actors that had TV and film careers and performed in theatre for passion were always great, the mid level performers were the rudest.
2025-10-30 10:36:26
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agorafoliage 🇨🇦 :
And yet designers are still protecting them by maintaining their anonymity.
2025-10-26 15:20:07
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Reuben Bokaba :
I know, it's easier said than done and no one should be put in that kind of position but take back your power. Start matching the energy they give you.
2025-10-26 12:12:13
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FoodElementalist | TCM :
Easy fix: place a set of stretchy boxers where they change and it should be mandatory to wear them
2025-10-26 16:18:04
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Anastasia Beaverhousen :
Massage therapist here. Many men don’t wear underwear. Woman’s always do
2025-10-26 12:53:12
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themax :
If they were just trying to get free underwear bc they are poor actors, I’d have some respect for it — but jfc men are so gross
2025-10-27 01:59:56
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Ms Vee :
👏👏👏
2026-01-19 10:33:18
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Roxy🇨🇦🌊 :
“ are you finding it cold in here?”
2025-10-26 12:15:50
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Ellie :
Hey yeah so this is assault. Making a joke is not an appropriate response. Immediately leaving the room and reporting them is.
2025-10-26 12:40:27
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Artemis :
Everything is about power.
2025-10-26 23:04:44
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Kat Louise :
why am I not surprised..
2025-10-26 11:31:55
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fifiduroi :
The ones on the way up or… on the way down do these things.
2025-10-26 11:18:08
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Dean Renwick :
I had the reverse, I was the costume assistant on a movie with a mid rage actress who what literally getting big in her career, and in her first fitting she turned to me and asked “gay or straight?” I said gay then she said thank god and flung her top off revealing her breasts and proceeded to change in front of me. After this initial fitting she felt comfortable enough to do it at every fitting with out consent. It didn’t bother me I was just glad that she had asked and had that sense of comfort. I will never forget that experience that’s for sure, I never had a man with out underpants but I did have a boy band member and a huge Lost Boys actor drop trouser in front of the whole staff room with out hesitation, with undergarments on, before I could point out the dressing rooms, the boy band member told me that they have to get changed in so many crazy situations that nothing phases them anymore and dropping trousers without shyness is just part of the process at this point of his career.
2025-10-26 18:59:04
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Lo :
I would be like honey, that’s gross here go put some underwear on, who raised you?
2025-10-26 13:29:22
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🇰🇮 Met :
😬😬😬
2025-10-26 07:31:17
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N A N Z :
This is disgusting
2025-10-27 04:54:56
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Lashan Reddy :
it should just be regulated to wear underwear
2025-10-26 13:55:05
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Nico 🇨🇦 :
While I understand your point of view in not naming names and trying to address the system as a whole, the people you protect by not naming them are often where real change will come from, from consequences. These men will never willingly change this system that benefits them till it no longer benefits them, and that’s usually from consequences outweighing benefits. The mind set of “I’m just as bad as them if I am not a pacifist” was spread by abusers to keep their victims from fighting back. People who use violence to establish power do not listen to pacifists.
2025-10-28 23:39:01
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Anana 🇨🇦 :
The craziest stories I heard when working in film all came from the costume department 💀
2025-10-27 01:33:51
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aussie470 :
Name the names if you want it to stop. Everyone afraid of losing jobs will keep this alive
2025-10-27 09:03:35
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Ms K 🇨🇦 :
Eff that. Shame them for it. Why aren’t the designers regularly calling the men out and telling them to leave and come back when they have underwear on? This is why unions are important.
2025-11-01 08:55:33
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k_hardie 🇨🇦 :
Oh my goodness! So much healing that has to be done! Thanks for sharing and revealing the truth! As sad as it is to hear😢
2025-10-26 19:52:18
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readAbook 😶🌫️ :
Yeah we know the ones!
2025-10-26 10:39:37
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Sonam Sanghvi :
Well match their energy and make them feel that their pee pee is tiny. You need to fight fire with fire.
If you want to do it the decent way, make it your shop's policy that innerwear is compulsory. Always have disposable underpants ready (just like shoe stores have those disposable socks) and make them mandatory.
2025-10-26 10:56:54
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Gigi :
The more we learn, the worse they get.
2025-10-26 11:19:14
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Oh That Christel :
Start laughing at them. Let’s see how dominant that makes them feel. Me and my female colleagues bring multiple types of underwear in case one doesn’t look right with the costume etc. Why are men? 😩
2025-10-26 14:44:05
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𝓗𝓸𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓕𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓮 ꨄ︎ :
this is so disgusting, I'm sorry you had to endure this inappropriate behaviour
2025-10-26 13:33:45
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LP :
Force them to put them on
2025-10-27 10:43:48
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Oikattso :
middle level man's
2025-10-26 11:53:45
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Esmeralda :
You need to have spare new underwear there, and make them wear them
2025-10-28 18:31:28
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Nancvcnan🇨🇦 :
how about " you are not ready for your fitting. I will tell the director we need to reschedule, but the production will still be charged for this appointment. next time wear underwear, im not getting paid enough to look at that"
2025-10-28 17:29:17
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Cloud9Wander :
Yeah but it most likely it tiny. So jokes on them
2025-10-28 16:37:33
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jgsjgsjgs0 :
call them out. if you show up to a fitting without undies. I would refuse to work on your outfit.
2025-10-28 16:21:11
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KBG7778🇨🇦🍁 :
Can you not just hand them a pair and say it’s required?
2025-10-26 12:35:12
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legally031 :
NAME AND SHAME
2025-10-27 13:28:42
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Chronicles of a Former HotGyal :
do yall not have regulations? underwear must be worn for fittings.
2025-10-26 17:09:14
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aussie470 :
Have another man in the room
2025-10-27 09:05:41
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✨ Jenna ✨ :
Whyyyyyy
2025-10-26 12:41:36
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Annie :
if this was common. I would bring a spare mens underwear and say. put these on
2025-10-26 12:44:36
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Coffee And Green :
really? I'd be like, "Why aren't you wearing underwear?" 😬 Then I'd tell them they need to cover their junk before the fitting
2025-10-27 00:48:19
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LVL :
It’s sexual assault actually. ☹
2025-10-26 23:21:15
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KayzerSoze91 :
Wait, dudes are going “commando” to costume fitting?!😳
2025-10-26 22:37:49
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Harmony☀️✨🧿✨☀️ :
Just yuck and how pathetic, truly.
2025-10-26 15:29:44
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Lungelo Ngubane 🏳️🌈🇿🇦 :
Ugh men 👏💔
2025-10-26 16:35:08
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