Former acting student students Faaam guilty founder Hugo Metsers of transgressive behavior
de Volkskrant spoke with 34 former students about their experiences with Faaam teacher and founder Hugo Metsers. Metsers set up the training in 2005 to teach actors to act for the camera, since 2007 in collaboration with the Media College in Amsterdam.
He is said to have urged students to go ‘further’ than they wanted, especially during the Functional Nude course. By playing nude scenes that will be ‘prepared’ for situations they will encounter during their acting career.
according to de Volkskrant more than ten sources have confirmed that “implicit of explicit was the message: the further your grade.” Students who revolt from receiving, from Metsers have received. The teacher and actor would also have amorous relationships with students outside school hours.
kissing incident
A group of students already wrote a letter in 2015 to a ‘kissing incident’, in which Metsers kissed a 21-year-old student during a school party. That happened in the open: everyone could see it then. After the letter, Metsers apologized and received a reprimand from the Media College.
According to the students die de Volkskrant that didn’t mean he stopped transgressing. In 2017 brought Show news revealed that Metsers had entered into a relationship with a (former) student. Related to what Mets said about it, students in de Volkskrant that the relationship started when the woman was still at school.
‘Hugo just decorated his students’, a former student tells the newspaper. “There was no explicit coercion. But he was the head of the school. Hugo gave us jobs, he arranged auditions. There was a power relationship.’
The Media College will leave a comment de Volkskrant only know to be aware of the one kissing incident described and reacts shocked to the stories of the students. Metsers denies most of the allegations in a written response.