You’re still going to be caught up into this mess.” Bret Tyler Skopek with Bryan Singer Courtesy Bret Skopek “You come (to LA) with dreams of being whatever. I’ve seen people like me that don’t know what they want to do,” Skopek told Deadline over several interviews. Here is the tale of a youthful-looking, barely legal-aged man who came to Hollywood with big dreams and left feeling chewed up, spat out and exploited by an older, wealthy man. But the story he tells - documented with text message exchanges and photographs with Singer, and verified in phone and email interviews with seven others - is reminiscent of the accounts of boy-toy-fueled excess depicted in Amy Berg’s 2014 documentary film An Open Secret. As the industry grapples with an ever-widening sexual abuse scandal, Skopek’s story is a painfully familiar one in which an eager newcomer arrives in Hollywood, dazzled by the klieg lights and celebrity, only to be exploited by powerful men.
“It was a never-ending supply of cute young men,” Skopek recalled. Bryan Singer Sued For Alleged 2003 Sexual Assault Of Teen Promised Acting Roles In Exchange For Silence
