‘Willing to Go There’ — starring ‘True Blood’ alumnus Deborah Ann Woll — is based on writer/director Laura Beckner’s own experience on the phone with the imposter, a m…
spoke with, the calls began with the offer of a starring role in an art house film being shot in Europe, with the imposter claiming to have been given their details by someone they had previously worked with.
The conversations then often descended — sometimes over the course of several hours on the phone — into deeply uncomfortable and probing personal questioning, regularly under the guise of “energy” work required as part of the auditioning process. On several occasions, women were coerced into moving to a video call where a small number exposed themselves to the man on camera.