- Eva Habermann talks about an unpleasant experience on the film set.
- In the 1990s, a director asked her to sexually “please” a leading actor.
- After that, she had to endure bullying on set.
- She emphasizes that the treatment of women has improved greatly since then.
Actress Eva Habermann took off her clothes for “Playboy” shortly after her 50th birthday and her photos were on everyone’s lips. Now the German is shocking with a disturbing experience from her career and is making serious allegations of sexual harassment on a film set.
In an interview with “Bild”, she looks back on the situation from the 1990s, which she still cannot forget today. “A director came up to me while we were filming and said I should sexually please the main actor because he couldn’t act anymore.” She replied quickly: “He can’t do that anyway.”
“Treating women has changed”
She had to let the director bully her for the rest of the filming. Habermann does not want to reveal which filmmaker it is. «It doesn’t matter who the director was. I could give a number of similar examples.” This action shows how difficult it was to deal with male power structures in the industry at the time.
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“Fortunately, the way women are treated has changed significantly since the 90s,” explains the actress. Her self-confident mother helped her as a young actress to deal with such situations. Her mother, Eva Habermann, taught her early on that “no one has control over our bodies or our decisions.” In addition, with more life experience and self-confidence, she can react completely differently today. “Nothing like that happens to me anymore. I’m 50 and think it’s a great age.”
Eva Habermann started at “Pumuckl TV”
Eva Habermann has been working in film and television since the early 1990s. In addition to acting, she also works as a presenter and producer. She took singing and dancing lessons as a teenager and started her career in children’s shows such as “Ferienfieber” and “Pumuckl TV”.
She became known to a wider audience through the sci-fi series “Lexx” and was later seen in popular television series such as “Tatort”, “The Investigator” and “The Inspector”. She founded the production company Fantomfilm GmbH with the filmmaker Alexander König in the 2010s and has since worked as a producer and co-author. It also works in private life for Habermann and König – they have been a couple for around ten years and have been engaged since 2021.
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