Porn Actresses Going Mainstream?

peewee postulates:

"I read an interesting article in this month's Empire movie magazine. It related to the adult film star Sasha Grey's move from porn star to mainstream Hollywood actress. It is also detailed in the attached link:

Sasha Grey

I recall your January blog about the 'porn bail-out'. And that leads me to another theory of sorts. With consumers steadily bailing out of buying adult dvd's, etc (with the alternatives available on-line), we may begin to see the emergence of porn stars as leading ladies on the big screen, as they too bail out for richer financial rewards.

I think the days when we looked down on a girl for shooting a porn film are long gone. Nowadays, a leaked sex video is a priority for hot wannabes. And just because we've seen young Sasha getting stuffed full of huge black cocks, does not mean we (or wee) little men don't still lust after her. In fact, quite the contrary. I believe that the porn starlets of today could easily command Hollywood careers. We may have to acknowledge that they are beyond our mortal means sexually, reserved for real men with huge cocks and unrivaled sexual prowess. However, that has always been the case with Hollywood's leading ladies. Let's face it, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly were not exactly attainable to the everyday man on the street. So, as Sasha and other porn actresses come to prominence, we may see a new porn boom, as the line between adult and mainstream movies becomes ever more blurred. Sasha will be the first of many, in my humble opinion."

My response to peewee:

"I think you could be on the right track about the porn actress / mainstream actress crossover. But this track has been the back road or breakdown lane for most. Traci Lords appears in ridiculous B films, but nevertheless keeps slogging along. Some porn actresses become B film horror actresses here in the States, and continue doing porn. Of course in the horror films, they get naked, but don't have any hardcore sex scenes.

From what I've read about Sasha, she had goals beyond porn and wanted to control her career from the beginning, porn was a stepping stone. She seemed more intelligent and aware than other porn actresses. Example: refusing to blow up her tits with silicone sacs to conform to the porno breast-o-saurus look.

A porn connoisseur called her "one of the new-age small-tittied pretentious pornstars who considers porn to be performance art". But the other reason I read she was cast in the Soderbergh film, was because she had no inhibitions about her body and being sexual onscreen, which apparently troubles some regular actresses who are concerned that doing nude scenes or that being too porn-y in a regular film will hurt their career...."