Sunday, November 2, 2008

Porn stars are the new crossover artists

Porn stars are the new crossover artists

A NEW LINE OF WORK: Katie Morgan arrives for the Hollywood premiere of "Zack and Miri Make a Porno."

A NEW LINE OF WORK: Katie Morgan arrives for the Hollywood premiere of " Zack and Miri Make a Porno."
They're landing legit work in movies such as 'Zack and Miri' and 'The Girlfriend Experience.' Meantime, they're also influencing pop culture.
There's a new breed of performer that's becoming a hot Hollywood commodity, and we're not talking about garrulous Chihuahuas.
Once largely shunned as pariahs by the entertainment industry, porn stars are turning up with increasing regularity on shopping-mall movie screens and in prime-time television shows, underscoring pornography's steady migration over the last three decades from the pop-culture margins to the mainstream.
Probably the most significant evidence of the trend so far is Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh's decision to cast Sasha Grey, a 20-year-old Sacramento native who began making hard-core movies when she was 18, in his upcoming feature film "The Girlfriend Experience." The movie is told from the perspective of a $10,000-a-night call girl. Grey has appeared in other non-pornographic films, including the Canadian low-budget horror flick "Smash Cut."

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