Posted on 11/27/2009 10:39:23 AM PST by Steelfish
November 27, 2009 Sasha Grey: From Porn Star To Leading Star [Pic in URL] Sasha Gray, the youngest person to win the Adult Video News Awards’ Female Performer of the Year award, goes mainstream
The director Steven Soderbergh compared casting the 21-year-old porn actress Sasha Grey as the lead in his latest film to working with Brad Pitt.
The interest in the sylph-slim, smoky-eyed actress, he explained, would be greater than the interest in the movie itself, a useful boost given that The Girlfriend Experience is firmly positioned at the defiantly uncommercial end of the Soderbergh spectrum.
Grey’s might not be a name that resonates through every household, but she has made her mark in the three years that she has been active in the adult entertainment industry. Last year she was the youngest person to win Adult Video News Awards’ Female Performer of the Year gong.
I witnessed the Sasha factor first-hand when I hosted a question-and-answer session for The Girlfriend Experience at the Barbican cinema in London. It wasn’t the stampede of autograph hunters at the end of the evening that surprised, however, rather the fact that about half of them were young women.
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This thread is useless without pics.
Sasha is a man’s nickname...
Its Russian...
I thought that award went to Traci Lords when she was like 17.5 yrs old (not that I keep up with these stats, lol).
oops *be
Brangelina will probably share the experience.
Its Russian...
Per my Ukrainian wife it is also a female nickname. "Sasha" is the diminutive of both Aleksandr (m) and Aleksandra (f).
17.5? I have heard the age of 16 tossed around a few times regarding her infamous career. Granted I met her and got her autograph at Dragoncon a few years back. She was actually quite personable. The autograph was for the office “Wally” and it made his week to get it.
Google is your friend...Sasha Grey is NOT a man nor is she Russian. I’ve never seen any of her films, but the pictures don’t lie.
Traci Lords and now Sasha Grey are probably the only former porn stars that I can think of who have found success in mainstream entertainment. Jenna Jameson has also enjoyed some "mainstream" success but it has so far been based on her notoriety in the Adult world.
Interestingly enough, what Lords did was a stroke of brilliance. Using a fake I.D. she entered the adult entertainment world at 15. At 18 she dropped the bomb on her real age which cost the pornographic film and distribution industry millions of dollars to pull her films off the shelves. She formed her own production company, released one film as a legal adult, reaped the profits this film earned and then left the adult business a wealthy and famous woman.
Just don't Google Sasha Grey at work. LOL!
Pretty girl, too bad she is tainted.
Not guilty.
Not guilty.
LOL... what was she charged with? :-)
“...which cost the pornographic film and distribution industry millions of dollars to pull her films off the shelves.”
Traci is incredibly lucky the Mob did not just make her “disappear.”
Yes indeed, and that’s too bad...
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