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Chapter 1: What allegations did Craig McLachlan face from his former friend C1?
I guess I thought he would probably have been saying, she'll never work again. To an actor, you know, you work so hard to have a career and to work. So when someone threatens that, whether they have the power or not, it's really damaging. Unfiltered. Episode 8.
Hello, my name is Vanessa Scammell and in episode 8 of Unfiltered Season 2, Michael Caine and Craig McLachlan reflect on the not guilty episode number 8, He Told Lies and F***ed My Reputation. This episode continues with the charges and allegations that were made against Craig McLachlan by his castmate and close friend from the Rocky Horror Show of 2014, C1.
How did this cast member go from loving texts to heinous front page allegations? How did years of friendly communications turn into life-shattering accusations? At the time, the Me Too movement was at its frenzied peak.
the Harvey Weinstein allegations had surfaced, the Rocky Horror Show of 2018 had just been cast without any of Craig's accusers being successful, and the Dr. Blake mysteries had just been announced as going to Channel 7. So, aside from this, could there have been anything else that prompted this accuser to go to the press and the police?
Michael Caine takes Craig through the very disturbing and shocking revelations of the accuser known as C1.
So Craig, again we talk about C1. Again, I'll remind people that six weeks before she went to the press with allegations against you, she sent a photo of her on a toilet table. I just want to sort of ascertain again that you were on good terms with her.
Yeah. Doing a second season of a TV show together, having a laugh. The friendship is good enough for her to joke with me in that way. Some people would find sending a photo of yourself sitting on a dunny with your knickers around your knees not very funny. If you understood the context of the jokes about catering on location and all the rest of it, I wasn't offended by it at the time.
But look, I don't know that that's the sort of thing you would do and send to someone who'd allegedly bullied and monstered you.
You discovered some alarming info as the years went by. So let's go back post-Rocky Horror Show, the weeks following the end of the tour. Yourself and C1, a whole lot of he said, she said. All I know is that I turned up that last day. You had been like a brother to me, as we said all along. and you would barely talk to me. I felt it was all pretty toxic in the end.
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Chapter 2: How did friendly communications turn into serious accusations?
The notion that I'm spending whatever little spare time I had, and I didn't have much, ringing around, telling producers and directors or casting agents or agents, don't get her in for auditions, don't give her any work. Yeah. I mean, it is nonsensical and it's worrying. I don't know why she would believe that to be the case because it just simply wasn't the case.
Do you feel that that's a motive to try to destroy you down the track? What he told Liza and f***ed my reputation, any reasonable person would be thinking right now, gosh, that screams motive, doesn't it?
You were unaware of this sentiment. You were constantly in touch after that and even went on to shoot The Wrong Girl where there was countless messages between you two.
Yes. Yeah, that's right. We, and I make no secret of it, we had a great time together on the two years that we were in production on that show.
And just some of those messages, she asks how you are, sending kisses. When was the last message you sent to her?
She was about to open in a production. So I'm sending her a funny song wishing her all the best for opening night. What I'm not doing, to be clear, is getting on the phone to those producers and saying, sack her before it's too late.
In 2017, she was being interviewed by the media. This same stuff came up about her reputation.
And so I didn't take it any further. I felt there was sort of a roadblock. And as I said, I asked for that conversation to be kept confidential. And I know for a fact that it wasn't. How do you know? I went away off the show with a back injury. And when I came back, no one would talk to me. I was sort of ostracized from the crew. Most of the cast, definitely the stage manager,
definitely Craig, you know, saying one thing and that's why everyone was on such red alert.
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Chapter 3: What was the impact of the #MeToo movement on this case?
No one could trust anything but I guess I thought he would probably have been saying she'll never work again and that is, to an actor, you know, you work so hard to have a career and to work, it is so hard. So when someone threatens that, whether they have the power or not, it's really damaging because You know, I'd worked for 10 years at that point and I thought, this is all over.
And I don't even know why.
Sorry, I don't really, I think it's funny that he called me a c**t. So the narrative seems that you tarnished her reputation somehow.
Yes. So this notion, again, this notion that I was this sinister figure thwarting her career, if I can put it in really simplistic language, it's bullshit. It's just not true. And if she'd ever turned to me and said, have you been telling producers they shouldn't employ me or anything else? The answer would have been no. Quite the opposite.
So there's an email you've got your hands on that talks about her behaviour, and this was from management at the Rocky Horror Show.
Yes, that's right. And the email clearly shows that she turned to the theatre one night, again having time off because of a sore back, and immediately starts slagging off the understudies that are performing, who are on stage. We have monitors in the theatre. Now, there is no evidence that could be presented that ever showed that I was slagging off members of the company, my friend included.
So there was another charge laid against you in relation to C1, a chin grab and face throw, a single charge of common assault. This one seems ridiculous.
You know, no one's face was ever thrown on that stage, ever. I mean, tell me about that scene. You know, this is a scene where Frankfurt is saying goodbye to all of his friends on stage. He's about to be beamed back to his home planet or potentially killed.
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Chapter 4: What evidence suggests a motive behind the allegations?
And it's, again, the absurdity of Rocky Horror and he's going around character by character while singing. I think we may have touched on this before. While singing, it's all to a tempo of a song and he has a brief moment with all of these characters. And that night you had a shocker. Oh, it was just dreadful. You know the old expression, anything that could go wrong went wrong. Collision?
There was a collision with one of my friends.
Chapter 5: What were the shocking revelations about the accuser C1?
There'd been a wardrobe malfunction backstage, so the corsets coming apart. They're desperately pinning all that back together. I'm listening to the music. My cue's getting closer and closer. I'm still half a mile from where I re-entered the stage. I seem to remember there was a mic pack issue as well. Anyway, all of those little things that could go wrong were going wrong.
I'm also filming a television show by day, so I'm exhausted, beyond exhausted as the leading man who's never missed a show. I'm also up at Sparrows, shooting a TV show, coming in, and now everything's going wrong. go, go, whack on the bum and I'm running to my position and I collide with one of my girlfriends from the show. And it was a nasty collision. It knocked the wind out of me.
It certainly knocked the wind out of my friend.
And your accusers even used this accidental collision with another actor to say that you were a bully and you're meant to run into her.
Exactly. Hold on, go back to that. Did he actually cause that? Yeah, he ran into... He was throwing a hissy fit, he was angry...
Yeah, it leaves me completely speechless.
And that night you did speak to the resident director.
Mm-hmm.
And what was that?
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