New accuser Charlotte Lewis says Roman Polanski used casting couch ‘audition’ routine

(HMG) – How’s this for a pickup line?  Seems that under siege director Roman Polanski employed the casting couch routine to get young actresses into his bed, back in the day.   British actress Charlotte Lewis, who recently claimed Polanski had abused her, ‘in the worst possible way’ when she was 16, says the director told her he slept with all his leading ladies.  You may recall Lewis for her role opposite Eddie Murphy in “The Golden Child” in 1986.

Lewis, who came forward about her history with Polanski at a press conference Friday, told London’s Daily Mail this weekend she initially refused the director’s advances when she met him in 1983 to audition for “Pirates.”

‘He just said very coldly, “If you’re not a big enough girl to have sex with me, you’re not big enough to do the screen test. I must sleep with every actress that I work with, that’s how I get to know them, how I mould them,” ‘ Lewis said.

Though the 16-year-old left Polanski’s Paris apartment claiming she had a boyfriend, she later returned and eventually won the role in “Pirates.”

“I never told my mother what had happened,” Lewis told the Mail. “I was just too ashamed. I needed to do this movie, the money was good — I was being paid £1,200 a month. My mother and I were living in housing association accommodation and this was a life-changing amount of money.”

Lewis, now 42, says she did not go the authorities at the time because she took the blame for what happenened.

“He sexually abused me and manipulated me in the worst way,” she told the press. “He has scarred me and the experience has definitely put a strain on my life.”

Lewis now wants Polanski to “get what he deserves” and has given a statement to Los Angeles prosecutors outlining what happened that night.

“I’m telling the truth and Roman knows I’m telling the truth,” she told the press Friday. “I will never forgive Polanski for what he has done to me.”

This latest bad news comes as the 76-year old film director is already under house arrest at his chalet in Switzerland, fighting extradition to the United States over charges brought in 1978 that he had sexual relations with a 13-year old girl.