In his obituary for Marilyn Chambers yesterday, our own Phil Nugent noted that “Chambers became perhaps the only established hardcore star to play the leading role in a ‘mainstream’ film by a major North American director (at least, until Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience opens) when David Cronenberg cast her in his second feature, Rabid.” The star of the Soderbergh film is Sasha Grey, until now best known for her work in such mature adult fare as Squirt Gangbang, Blow Me Sandwich 11 and Cum Fart Cocktails 5.
You’d expect Grey’s first mainstream role to be something of a change of pace, but the actress herself wasn’t so sure about that. “When I had the first meeting I assumed I would be naked and do a sex scene,” Grey tells New York magazine. “Did I think I would do five, like in my adult work? No, but even up to the point where we were shooting, I thought there was going to be at least one sex scene.”
Despite the fact that she’s playing a high-priced call girl, Grey learned no coitus would be required. “The contract did say that I would be nude. But one of the clauses was [laughing] “You cannot have [real] sex.” To me, that was a pretty funny legality… But it was great not to have sex—that would have been too easy. If you want to see me having sex, you can do that! Not doing it shifts the focus, because a lot of clients are there for more than the sex.”
Anyone holding out hope for a Cum Fart Cocktails 6 may be out of luck. “I’ve got to diversify myself. Do I want to be 35, having sex on-camera? No. I want to be sitting on a fucking porch at my beach house with my own successful company.” A fucking porch? I’m sure she didn’t mean it the way I read it.
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Screengrab at Sundance: Review of The Girlfriend Experience
Steven Soderbergh's Girlfriend Experience