Sasha Grey: From Porn Star To Leading Star [To Co-Star With Brad Pitt]

London Times ^ | November 28th 2009

[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.

[MrEdd]

How do they cast movies these days?

[Melas]

It washes off. If she leaves porn behind, she’ll be find.

[ottbmare]

Pretty girl, too bad she is tainted.

In different ways, we are all tainted. She may have started her life in a very regrettable way, but there is always hope for redemption.

[Star Traveler]

Sasha Grey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Grey

[McGruff]

Pretty girl, too bad she is tainted.

Tainted. Why that girl's been around more times than a Ferris wheel at the state fair.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2340248/

[Cacique]

At least she admits to being a whore. The people in washington pretend they are not..

[Logic n' Reason]

tainted.

Tainted????

Judge and jury, aren't we??

[fieldmarshaldj]

Playing hide the salami on camera.

[Tennessee Nana]

OK...

:)

[Tennessee Nana]

Sasha Grey is NOT a man ...

Ah, I never said she was...

Disappointed are we ???

[Electric Graffiti]

It figures, you after-birther trolls are porn connoisseurs. LMAO.

[wally_bert]

I forgot about the legal aspect of her case. A few years back I saw an E! channel documentary about her illustrious teen years and how her age almost destroyed that industry.

[lowbridge]

This thread is useless without pics.

and video

[Star Traveler]

Ah-ha... :-)

[Star Traveler]

I thought Post #11 was a pretty good one... :-)

[wally_bert]

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.

I had wondered about how she has stayed amongst the living considering how much she cost the mob/porn industry. She must know something about someone or group. What she did was brilliant though. A scam worthy high accolades.

[ozzymandus]

But...all Hollywood actresses are virgins, aren’t they??

[Lancey Howard]

Wow! She’s a pig!

[Lancey Howard]

Her father must be very proud of her.

[wally_bert]

Didn’t her dad disappear on her as a kid?