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But she is the new face in "mainstream" Hollywood. Yes, Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh cast the young porn star Sasha Grey, best known as that cute white girl gagging on a Huge Black Cock or as the youngest winner of the Adult Video News’ Female Performer of the Year award. The Guardian UK says:
"The Girlfriend Experience is the second in Soderbergh's six-picture deal with billionaire entrepreneurs Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner. Each will be shot on high-definition video and released simultaneously in cinemas, on DVD and television...."To have the opportunity to work for an Academy Award-winning auteur is truly a great honour," Grey told AVN. "I've been an admirer of Soderbergh's films for years, and I am elated that I have been given a leading role in a character-driven film."
Sasha Grey started porn at the age of 18 after being a reported stoner in high school and has recently been transitioning to more mainstream media such as modeling, art and music videos. But it's amazing why more porn stars aren't in mainstream movies, because in most cases, they act and look better than what passes for Hollywood actresses right now. Both Kirsten Dunst and Sharon Stone have no talent and look like they should be hiding under a child's bed, yet they are somehow big stars. Sasha Grey has an actual marketable skill, yet she's seen more trains than a railroad track. I'd like to see Kirsten Dunst even try to do porn. The talentless bitch wouldn't know where to start. Sasha made a huge mistake after high school be starring in porn. The funny thing is that she has more acting talent than many of the starlets in Hollywood and she is better looking too. Click on pictures to enlarge.
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Sasha Grey (born March 14, 1988, in Sacramento, California, USA) is the stage name of an award winning American porn star, film and stage actor, writer, photographer, performance/transgressive artist and experimental musician . Originally she toyed with the name Anna Karina (the name of Jean-Luc Godard's ex-wife) before deciding on her present name. She has stated the name "Grey" represents Oscar Wilde’s novel Dorian Grey and the Kinsey scale of sexuality. blogywoodbabes.blogspot.com
In May of 2006 Grey moved to Los Angeles and started her career in adult films just after turning 18. Her first scene was an orgy with Rocco Siffredi for The Fashionistas 2 by John Stagliano. It has been reported she "shocked" her fellow performer by requesting to be punched in the stomach during fellatio. Though Grey does not deny saying this, she emphasizes the request was "an exercise in improvisational fantasy." This resonates to what Grey once wrote in regards to herself as a person and as an artist: "I wanted to express my sexuality as a strong woman, to push my own boundaries and see which part of my psyche would take me to my next euphoric sexual experience." Nearly six months after entering the adult industry Grey was featured in the November 2006 edition of Los Angeles where she was flagged as a potential major star, perhaps the next Jenna Jameson, making her one of the fastest rising stars in adult film history.
In December 2006 she interviewed on the syndicated entertainment industry news show The Insider. In February 2007 Grey appeared on The Tyra Banks Show to participate in the topic of teenagers in the sex industry. She later claimed through her own blog and YouTube that the televised interview represented her poorly and the show's staff changed her clothing and hairstyle to make her appear younger, which became the target of criticism by Tyra Banks for Grey's choice to go into adult film. On the show, Banks expressed her theory that there had to be a "reason" related to abuse that caused Grey to make the choice of pornography despite Grey's insistence that entering the adult industry was a calculated career choice. Banks described Grey's disposition as "...cold, distant and hard," although she thanked Grey for attending the show. In an interview Grey stated: "Despite the controversy that surrounds this industry, I felt I could ultimately bring an enigmatic quality to it. I decided that if my instinct continued to push me toward the reality of this, and the dissatisfaction with my education continued, I would seize the opportunity on my own."
Less than a year after entering the industry (January 2007) Grey was the recipient of awards for Best Three Way Sex Scene and Best Group Scene at the prestigious AVN adult movie awards. The following May she was also presented with the Best New Starlet award by the X Rated Critics Organization. She was named Pet of The Month for July 2007 (the spread is considered to be a radical change for the magazine as it was photographed by fashion photographer Terry Richardson) and also appeared in a 2008 re-print of Terryworld. Among other collaborations with Richardson she was also appeared in Wives, Wheels, Weapons (a companion book to James Frey’s Bright Shiny Morning).
Grey is featured as part of the art work for The Smashing Pumpkins 2007 album Zeitgeist, and appears in their 2008 video "Superchrist". In 2007 she starred in (and suggested the title for) the movie Broken ,directed by Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction). Grey was also featured in the music video for the song "Birthday Girl", by the Roots and has modeled for American Apparel and Richard Kern for Vice (magazine) Anti-fashion spread and appeared in a three part VBS program, "Shot by Kern". Grey contributed vocals to Lee "Scratch" Perry's 2008 album Repentance (2008 album), on the track "Pum Pum." Her appeal has reached many spectrums including the fine art world, as she has modeled for artists James Jean and David Choe, while also inspiring French artist Frédéric Poincelet for countless sketches in his ongoing work with Frederic Magazine, in addition to a two page spread with the renound Liberation magazine in France She is featured in the series PG Porn by James Gunn (filmmaker) (Slither), as well as a cameo role in Dick Rude's independent film Quit which demonstrates Grey's work outside of pornography, and stars in the upcoming Canadian low-budget black comedy/horror film Smash Cut from the Ottawa based Odessa/Zed Filmworks, where she plays a TV news personality who goes undercover as an actress in a horror film only to discover the killer of her older sister.
In 2008 she became the youngest person to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year award. blogywoodbabes.blogspot.com
