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This post mentions sexual assault and body image issues.

Plenty of actors have publicly named and shamed the costars or directors who treated them poorly on set. Sometimes, however, they choose to share their struggles while keeping the person's name a secret, whether out of fear of retribution that could put their own careers at risk or to keep an irrelevant person from getting attention, because the best revenge is success.

Here are 23 times actors called out their costars or crew, but wouldn't name them:

Describing an acting note she "took personally," Lili Reinhart told Cosmopolitan, "When I had a male director come up to me and silently lean over and go, 'Just suck in your stomach a little.'"

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Her Forbidden Fruits costars encouraged her to say his name, but she declined, adding, "I'll tell you later. ... I won't say his name. You know, weirdly, I don't think his intentions were bad. I genuinely think he didn't want me to look at the footage later and be like, 'Oh, someone maybe should've told me it was an unflattering angle.'"

Alexandra Shipp replied, "Here's the tea. That was on him and the [director of photography] to find a flattering way to shoot you, not to make your body your problem."

Previously, in a 2017 Tumblr post, Lili Reinhart wrote, "In light of the Harvey Weinstein allegations… I feel the need to share a story of my own personal experience where a man in a position of power over me, used that said power to try and take advantage of me. I was a teenager working on a project.. when I started to have a crush on a guy I was working with. He was incredibly charming and charismatic– we flirted for a while before we went on our first date. He was pretty significantly older than me, but I thought of myself as mature so it didn't seem like a big deal. ... All that matters is that he tried to force himself on me when we were on a date."

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"I had to stop him and say 'no, I don't want that,' and 'I can't do that.' I physically walked away from the situation before it could get any worse. I remember feeling like this was a scene right out of a horror movie.

After awkward silence and me feeling completely violated and uncomfortable, he convinced me to get in his car– I assumed he was going to drive me home. I didn't have any money and couldn't afford a taxi or an Uber. So I figured it was okay.

As we were driving, I realized he was trying to take me back to his apartment. And I knew if I made it there, something bad was going to happen to me. I told him to drop me off at my home, that I didn't want to go back to his place. He said some snarky comment but reluctantly brought me to where I was staying.

The next day I tried to talk to him about the situation. I told him how uncomfortable it made me and how wrong it felt. Thinking back on it now, the situation is hard for me to swallow. I was so young and didn't know how to handle the situation. I just knew how wrong it felt and that I had been violated. This guy proceeded to tell me that it was my fault for leading him on. Saying that 'I seemed like a sexual girl and that I'd be down for it.' That I misled him," she said.

She continued, "Days following, he grew angry at the situation and became defensive about it and his actions. Claiming that I was 'a tease' and 'the most manipulative woman he'd ever met.' His ego was bruised to say the least, because I refused to engage with him sexually that night. He refused to talk to me. I remember begging him to come outside his trailer so we could talk. I needed clarity on the situation. I felt like I had genuinely done something wrong– that maybe I really was being a tease to him and led him to believe that I wanted to be with him sexually."

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"I was miserable. And I felt that I needed to keep my mouth shut about the entire situation because 1. I figured no one would believe me and 2. he played a much bigger role in this project than me… he had more power. If I said something, maybe the production would be halted… people would be put out of work. I would be looked at as dramatic and a diva, no one would want to work with me again," she wrote.

Margot Robbie had an unnamed male costar gift her a weight-loss book totally unprompted. She told Complex's GOAT Talk, "Very, very early in my career, an actor I worked with — a male actor — gave me a book called Why French Women Don't Get Fat. It was essentially a book telling you to eat less. I was like, 'Woah, fuck you, dude.' He essentially gave me a book to let me know that I should lose weight. ... That was a very long [time ago]. I have no idea where he would even be now. Really back in the day."

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In her 2024 memoir Master of Me: The Secret to Cont

Actors Called Out Unnamed Costars And Crew