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Sasha Grey: From Porn Star To Leading Star [To Co-Star With Brad Pitt]
London Times ^ | November 28th 2009

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: grey
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1 posted on 11/27/2009 10:39:24 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

This thread is useless without pics.


2 posted on 11/27/2009 10:43:17 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Steelfish

Sasha is a man’s nickname...

Its Russian...


3 posted on 11/27/2009 10:44:06 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Steelfish
Will Brad being dumping Angelina for Sasha...enquiring minds will want to know.


4 posted on 11/27/2009 10:47:11 AM PST by SouthDixie (We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
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To: Steelfish
Last year she was the youngest person to win Adult Video News Awards’ Female Performer of the Year gong.

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).

5 posted on 11/27/2009 10:48:44 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: SouthDixie

oops *be


6 posted on 11/27/2009 10:49:08 AM PST by SouthDixie (We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
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To: SouthDixie

Brangelina will probably share the experience.


7 posted on 11/27/2009 10:51:29 AM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Sasha is a man’s nickname...

Its Russian...

Per my Ukrainian wife it is also a female nickname. "Sasha" is the diminutive of both Aleksandr (m) and Aleksandra (f).

8 posted on 11/27/2009 10:54:50 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

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.


9 posted on 11/27/2009 10:57:44 AM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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10 posted on 11/27/2009 10:59:06 AM PST by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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11 posted on 11/27/2009 11:01:04 AM PST by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

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.


12 posted on 11/27/2009 11:01:20 AM PST by Wingy (Don't blame me. I voted for the chick. I hope to do so again.)
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To: wally_bert
No matter what the age, Traci was definitely a minor when she won the award. Perhaps the article meant she was the youngest person to legally win it.
13 posted on 11/27/2009 11:04:57 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
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).

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.

14 posted on 11/27/2009 11:05:35 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Wingy
Google is your friend...Sasha Grey is NOT a man nor is she Russian.

Just don't Google Sasha Grey at work. LOL!

15 posted on 11/27/2009 11:07:11 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Star Traveler

Pretty girl, too bad she is tainted.


16 posted on 11/27/2009 11:08:11 AM PST by brwnsuga (Not a Slave!)
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To: Star Traveler

Not guilty.


17 posted on 11/27/2009 11:13:19 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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You were saying ...

Not guilty.

LOL... what was she charged with? :-)

18 posted on 11/27/2009 11:19:33 AM PST by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Drew68

“...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.”


19 posted on 11/27/2009 11:20:05 AM PST by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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To: brwnsuga

Yes indeed, and that’s too bad...


20 posted on 11/27/2009 11:20:09 AM PST by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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