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Has being "the smart porn star" become your shtick? Is that a fair way to characterize your persona?
I'll leave the shtick up to the consumer. I pride myself on being myself. That's one of the reasons I don't want a contract. There's something wrong with confining somebody into one little box — to say, "This is who you are and this is how we market you." As humans, we are allowed to change. I don't want someone telling me to do this or that. I don't want to be told that every other word that comes out of my mouth has to be cock or pussy.
I think that's the first time you said either cock or pussy in this interview.
[Laughs] Well, that's the point. You can call it a shtick or a persona, but it doesn't really mean very much. People just don't fit into those labels as easily as we would like. I mean look at me, I'm a porn star, but it's not like I fit that classic porn-star image. I'm not blonde with big, fake tits and tons of makeup.
Do you have a lot of female fans? What do they like about your films?
I do have a lot of female fans. You don't get that one-on-one exchange all that often. But the most common comment I get is that women say they feel unabashed about who they are sexually when they watch my movies. I really like that.
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I'll leave the shtick up to the consumer. I pride myself on being myself.
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What's the funniest thing you've ever seen happen on a porn set?
That's a tough one. I don't know if this is funny, but I saw a girl defecate on a couch by accident when she was filming. She wasn't even doing an anal scene. I felt pretty bad for her.
What did the guy in the scene do?
It was kind of second nature to the guy. I guess that had happened to him before. He wasn't grossed out, but he didn't help, either. He just walked off-camera.
What's next for you?
I'm working really hard on launching my website, so I'm building content for that. I'm also working on a graphic book but that hasn't been solidified yet. It's sort of a coffee table book about sex and philosophy, but a lot more involved.
Would you ever want to direct? What story would you want to tell?
I direct stuff for the website I'm building. But as far as non-adult directing, that's a few years off. I've written a few scripts, but I'm still working on them. I lean toward dark comedies and drama.
How did the sex scenes in The Girlfriend Experience compare to your prior work in porn?
[Laughs] You'll have to see it.
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Michael Estrin is a freelance writer living in Los Angeles. He has written about porn, advertising, hookers, bankruptcy, fake boobs, tech and lawyers. He keeps it all straight with a white board that hangs behind his desk. He only refers to himself in the third person when writing his bio. |
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Commentarium (17 Comments)
The thing I don't like about her is that she seems overly self-satisfied, and just not very nice.
I totally agree with you; there is a very unappealing detached quality I don't like. Also it seems like she's pulling intellectual rank when she mentions how it's "sad" that some other porn star wasn't familiar with a Hunter S. Thompson. It's so condescending. It seems like she's trying very hard to be smart and "edgy" but she just comes across as mean spirited and grandiose.
What the fuck is so glorious about being a porn "star"? It's like talking about the "miracle" of birth.
Don't know if she's mean-spirited or anything, DO know that reading Hunter Thompson ain't like reading the Bible in the original Aramaic. I mean, jeez, did anyone feel real challenged by, say, 'Hell's Angels'? I know, at least some times, attractive people claim that people automatically think they're less-than-intelligent; well, here's the flip: for some attractive people, the bar for 'ooh, she's intellectual' is so low you can step over it.
I'm not a fan of Ms. Grey's just because she's like about a million other young porn stars: stares at the camera, a whole line of phony-baloney patter, that spit-sucking sound that drives me up the wall, the drooping eyelids meant to imply passion but always making me think of Get Shorty's Chili Palmer saying, what are you telling me, you're sleepy, you need a nap?....
Yawn. Gonzo WAS gonzo, at least originally, because it was (more or less) real people, not 'porn stars' who exhibited all the above behaviors, getting it on. Now it's more of the same. Don't know if I'll see this movie, maybe on cable. DO know, based on about 2 minutes of Redtube, I ain't renting none'a Sasha's porn.
Is she good enough to make it with her pants on? I forget, did Sofia Coppola ever get better after Godfather 3?
Sometimes I don't like knowing too much about actors and actresses before I see a movie. It brings too much baggage and I can't help thinking about their personal life makes me view the film less objectively. I watched GFE on Amazon VOD, it was good.
i think she have the right to do what she wants and sex shouldnoy be a tabu
I don't get why she is the "smart porn star." She sounds like an angsty 15-year-old high school girl name dropping Sartre and Hunter S. Thompson. The bar must not be too high in that industry.
hey did any of ya'll stop and think well she has the right to lord her intelligence over me because she has a college education and doesnt have a dead end job and has goals for her life and doesnt just sit around and gossip about a " young actress "
What do you think?
I'm one of Sasha's female fans. Until her, I really didn't watch much porn. What I love about her is that she always owns the room. She can switch from domme to subby, but always seems to be in control. And, she she doesn't babble that lame 'porn speak'. It might not be, but it comes off as natural reactions.
As for her outside of work, I find her very interesting. She is very young, and talk like a self-absorbed college student at time. But, EVERYONE does that, usually while insulting others for it.
She puts herself out there to be insulted, and I think that's brave. I never fault actors for putting out a 'working persona' when giving interviews, because lets' face it, most people are asses who like to insult others. (Just look at the comments here.) And, they have to get interviewed by some real tools at times. Sasha seems to just lay it out there. I hope she's able to keep it up. It's hard to be genuine in a world full of critics.
All comments south of 4/20/10 are Sasha Grey herself, battling the negative comments. Just like her lovelysashagrey.com website. pretentious yet edgy....right.
4/20 is also Sasha Grey the talented "actress"
4/20 too
I believe Sasha Grey is a rather interesting creature. She is someone that is actually quite funny and smart...someone you might actually humorous with her clothes on. Doesn't hurt that she is carrying that nyphette fantasy for all those coots out there that like younger chicks. Girls that can make love to your intellect just seem interesting to me.
thisgirl is crazy one of the crazy ones that nature should have killed at birth apparently empowering women , university empowers woman not porn fuck off sasha we dont need your help, shes almost male and i do not mean to insult any good men out ther but ya know what i mean ewwwwwwwwwww is all i think when i think of her well ewwwwwwww and insane she needs to get some help insane arrogant dead person
1PrFXU Is anybody strong in radio here? We need a colleague who would tell us briefly about the transistor T2. I hope there are radio amateurs here. If it`s not on the subject at all, then I`m sorry. I have to write because I have no choice. PS: if the spelling is not right then also I'm sorry, I'm just 13 years old...
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