Courtney-Thorne Smith Recalls Pushing Back Against Wearing 'Sexy' Lingerie in a Movie at 17: You're 'Being a Baby'

The 'Melrose Place' alum looked back on an uncomfortable encounter she had with the director while shooting one of her first films

Courtney-Thorne Smith is recalling a particularly difficult moment on a movie set when she was a young actress.

The Melrose Place alum, 56, explained to her former costars Daphne Zuniga and Laura Leighton on the Sunday, Sept. 22 episode of the trio’s podcast Still the Place that early in her career, she had an inappropriate encounter with a director.

"One of my first movies, I was 17 years old, and I was in Tahoe. And the storyline was, I was 17, and I was playing against this guy who was in his late thirties," Thorne-Smith said. "We did sleep together in the script, and I wore one of his button-down shirts afterward."

However, Thorne-Smith remembered arriving at the set and discovering "a really sexy negligee" in her room. Uncomfortable with the costume and feeling “trapped” by the situation, she called out to the director that the lingerie was not in the script. “And he said, “Well, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter,’” she recalled before noting she had a “no nudity clause.”

“Then I said, ‘The way it's cut, something will show,’” she recalled. “And I also had this mindset of I'm 17 with an [older] man. Like I knew it was kind of off, but the shirt made it feel alright.”

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But Thorne-Smith was persistent about not wearing the lingerie and told Zuniga and Leighton that one producer told her the crew was talking about her refusal and saying she was “being a baby.”

She then called her agent, who came to the set in Lake Tahoe and supported her decision, and was “100% on [her] side.” Thorne-Smith remarked that she was grateful for this, especially after learning about the MeToo movement and young women being set up by agents to meet with Hollywood executives in hotel rooms.

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She claimed that production was putting “pressure” on her and was "furious" because she did ultimately wear the original scripted costume of the man's shirt.

As Thorne-Smith continued, she alleged that the producer “lied about the crew.” She said, “Every single member of the crew came up and said, ‘Good for you,’” adding, “Thank god they had my back.”

"I'm so grateful I had that ability to stand up for myself at that age," she concluded. "I'm amazed, actually. I had that ability at that age."

Thorne-Smith’s first movie credits include the 1986 cult classic Lucas, which also starred Winona Ryder, Charlie Sheen, and Corey Haim, as well as the dramedy Welcome to 18, which featured Mariska Hargitay. On the small screen, she appeared on According to Jim and Ally McBeal.

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