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#367703 - 10/14/08 09:19 PM
Sasha Grey Cast as Lead in Mainstream Film
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Rob Black's Crack Pipe
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NEW YORK - AVN Female Performer of the Year Sasha Grey has been cast as the lead in director Steven Sodergbergh's new film The Girlfriend Experience.
The Magnolia Pictures production is now shooting on location in New York.
Written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, The Girlfriend Experience explores the world of prostitution from the viewpoint of a $10,000 a night call girl.
"To have the opportunity to work for an Academy Award-winning auteur is truly a great honor," 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."
Soderbergh won the Academy Award for Best Director for Traffic in 2000 after scoring nominations for Erin Brockovich and Sex Lies and Videotape. His recent films include Ocean's Eleven and its two sequels, and the Che Guevara biopics The Argentine and Guerrilla.
AVN broke the news that Soderbergh was considering Grey for the part in April.
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#367705 - 10/14/08 09:59 PM
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I'll believe it when I see it.
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#367708 - 10/14/08 11:44 PM
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On the one hand, I'd say good for her, on the other hand, I realise we are going to have to sit through some existentialist musings on the capricious, intertwined nature of film, life, and art. Break out the Gauloises, mes amis...
Oh, by the way, if you really hate Sasha Grey, the people over at Psycho Thrillers have a number of flicks just for you!
From 'Evil Under The Sun'.
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#367709 - 10/15/08 12:55 AM
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Bukkake Boy
Registered: 12/28/05
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Good for her.
Soderbergh can be a pretentious dick in his "serious" films, but maybe this one will work? The idea has solid drama written all over it.
If it's another mainstream film with real sex then it will probably be distracting (I don't think any of them work as mainstream films), but who knows until it's made?
Good luck to all involved.
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#367710 - 10/15/08 04:27 AM
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... I know she's somehow a hit with joe mouth-breather pornsumer ...
Hey, I resemble that!
Psudo-intellectual sluts rock! 
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#367711 - 10/15/08 04:29 AM
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Its a gimmick so the director can try to be "edgy". :yawn:
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#367712 - 10/15/08 04:46 AM
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Porn Jesus
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"Written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, The Girlfriend Experience explores the world of prostitution from the viewpoint of a $10,000 a night call girl."
A USD 10,000/night call girl? And who do they ask for the lead?
A worn out 25 dollar porn whore. Just great. Another movie I can do without.
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#367713 - 10/15/08 06:49 AM
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Chronic Masturbator
Registered: 03/29/08
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thats ras
i bet it will be a great movie!
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#367714 - 10/15/08 07:10 AM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 01/21/08
Posts: 353
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thats ras
i bet it will be a great movie!
Cinematic gold, ya think?
For some strange reason I'm thinking Sasha will have the impact on this film what Sofia Coppola had on the Godfather III.
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#367718 - 10/15/08 09:25 AM
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AC Cream Wannabe
Registered: 01/01/06
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Ok. I've worked in brothels, for escort services, and on my own. I've met a lot of whores in my day. Although never in that upper echelon of whoredom I have never heard of a 10,000 a night call girl. Typical movie bullshit.
I legally represent Soderberg's "technical advisor" on this movie and she can clear $10,000 in a night. In order for an escort to clear that she better be Penthouse/Playboy quality with an advanced degree and can speak several languages as well as keep current on a host of issues.
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#367721 - 10/15/08 11:12 AM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 02/17/04
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I legally represent Soderberg's "technical advisor" on this movie and she can clear $10,000 in a night. In order for an escort to clear that she better be Penthouse/Playboy quality with an advanced degree and can speak several languages as well as keep current on a host of issues.
Hmmm. well. I guess I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I just find it funny that movies and tv seem to always push the 10,000 dollar hooker or the high class idea. Watching tv shows such as cat house are a complete mis-representation of prostitution. On the show every girl isn't going to reduce her worth by saying what's really going on, which is that sometimes you make nothing. Everyone says they make thousands a week. I worked at the bunny ranch for a while and maybe one maybe two were making an above average living, which was still under what someone with an MBA from a good university could make.Quite a bit under. I guess there is a subculture of super whores who could be president if they chose but instead choose to suck the balls of some shriveled up businessman that I'm just not aware of.
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#367722 - 10/15/08 11:21 AM
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Porn Fucking Master
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isn't the point of having an advanced degree and being multilingual so that you don't have to suck dick for a living?
more power to her, though.
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#367726 - 10/15/08 12:39 PM
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Earning potential depends more on the degree subject than how advanced it is.
The most educated whore I've ever encountered had an MA in history, along with BAs in philosophy and European culture/literature. Being able to discuss the Islamic conquest of Persia and quote Descartes helped her sell herself as a classy courtesan, rather than a Craig's List hooker, but it couldn't get her a highly paid job in the real world.
Not that she earned anything like $10,000 a night, I doubt she earned that in an average month. But then she wasn't exactly Playboy model material...
There are people in my company's call centre with that level of useless education. I was just chatting with the receptionist about her BS in zoology. Wouldn't be too shocking if one of two of them did a bit of whoring on the side.
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#367727 - 10/15/08 12:59 PM
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AC Cream Wannabe
Registered: 01/01/06
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Jeez, at $10 Gs a night you think she'd be able to afford a real lawyer. 
Stevie -- Yeah, go figure. At least she pays me in real money...
How's that website going ? Still doing scenes ?
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#367729 - 10/15/08 04:40 PM
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Human Garbage
Registered: 09/18/08
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I legally represent Soderberg's "technical advisor" on this movie and she can clear $10,000 in a night. In order for an escort to clear that she better be Penthouse/Playboy quality with an advanced degree and can speak several languages as well as keep current on a host of issues.
For my 30th birthday I hired a $10,000 a night whore in London. She was stupendous -- Playboy looks, better educated than me, smarter, and no gag reflex. Definitely a higher cut than Sasha Grey. But she didn't let me gape out her ass.
These days I know that's a waste of money. When one can get a whore overnight for $750-1000 who's 60% as good-looking, and 120% as nasty, and comes equipped with an eight-ball, the 10K hooker is a waste of money. I'm no Eliot Spitzer.
Plus, to be honest, as I've aged I've come to appreciate the power dynamic more. The 10K hooker is the boss of you -- she comes with a list a mile long of things she won't do, and because she's got ten thousand of your dollars plus a million more she doesn't need you. That no-gag reflex blowjob? Covered. Meanwhile, the drug-addicted single mother will do just about anything as long as you give her another toot.
You'll fuck much more ass at $200 per hour than at $500.
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#367730 - 10/15/08 04:45 PM
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This doesn't surprise me at all. For one, she seems pretty charismatic. Secondly, it's a lot easier to hire a porn star for a role like that because they'll do anything. I personally can't wait to see her in the film.
did you use the word charismatic to refer to sleepy-head Sasha? Perhaps you were being sarcastic and it went over my head.
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#367731 - 10/15/08 05:33 PM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 03/25/08
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A real life whore playing a whore in a movie. Now there's a stretch.
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#367732 - 10/15/08 06:13 PM
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AC Cream Wannabe
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I legally represent Soderberg's "technical advisor" on this movie and she can clear $10,000 in a night. In order for an escort to clear that she better be Penthouse/Playboy quality with an advanced degree and can speak several languages as well as keep current on a host of issues.
For my 30th birthday I hired a $10,000 a night whore in London. She was stupendous -- Playboy looks, better educated than me, smarter, and no gag reflex. Definitely a higher cut than Sasha Grey. But she didn't let me gape out her ass.
These days I know that's a waste of money. When one can get a whore overnight for $750-1000 who's 60% as good-looking, and 120% as nasty, and comes equipped with an eight-ball, the 10K hooker is a waste of money. I'm no Eliot Spitzer.
Plus, to be honest, as I've aged I've come to appreciate the power dynamic more. The 10K hooker is the boss of you -- she comes with a list a mile long of things she won't do, and because she's got ten thousand of your dollars plus a million more she doesn't need you. That no-gag reflex blowjob? Covered. Meanwhile, the drug-addicted single mother will do just about anything as long as you give her another toot.
You'll fuck much more ass at $200 per hour than at $500.
Dude, I'm impressed. 
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#367734 - 10/15/08 07:47 PM
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Porn Jesus
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isn't the point of having an advanced degree and being multilingual so that you don't have to suck dick for a living?
more power to her, though.
You were reading my mind when I wrote that, and you wrote it exactly the way I was thinking it. With all that knowledge, hopefully you can aspire to become something.
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#367737 - 10/15/08 10:52 PM
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Human Garbage
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isn't the point of having an advanced degree and being multilingual so that you don't have to suck dick for a living?
more power to her, though.
I have an advanced degree (two, actually) and speak three languages. While I don't have to suck dick for a living, I don't have all that much freedom to choose my clients and unfortunately, I don't make 10K a day unless I bill 18 hours -- and even then my firm gets that money, pays rent and overhead including staff salaries, and taxes. At the end of that 10K day I'd be lucky to see $3000 of it net in my pocket. And after 18 hours I'd be too tired to fuck.
So the über-whore makes out significantly better than the "educated professional." You can see why the ranks of the high-dollar courtesans are comprised of some surprisingly "well-qualified" women who recognize that sucking dick is still their best way to get ahead in the world. They only have to sell 100 days like that to make a million -- usually tax-free, if they don't take plastic.
As for me, I prefer more desperation. I can have a month of "lost weekends" full of coke, meth and desperate whores for that kind of money. Actually much less. As long as my herpes isn't acting up, that is...
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#367738 - 10/15/08 11:18 PM
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AC Cream Wannabe
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Girlfriend's not a fan me filming
Well that makes 6742 of us....
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#367740 - 10/15/08 11:26 PM
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<snip>Its sill in pre-production so no casting yet, but thankfully it will not involve that cunt Mary Carey as previously planned. The budget should allow for real talent. 
+1 on Mary Carey - attaching her to any legit project is as much the kiss of death as attaching Ron Jeremy to it, B-movie bargain bin shit. Mainstream movie biz is too competetive for carnival sideshow wannabes like those kinds of people.
I still think this whole project or at least Sasha's planned involvement has the propensity to go sideways at any moment - i'm skeptical it will be any true crossover success for her in the end, but more power if it is (why not).
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#367741 - 10/15/08 11:39 PM
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Whoremaster
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You'll fuck much more ass at $200 per hour than at $500.
I feel like Sean Penn in 'Colors' after Robert Duvall tells him the anecdote about the two bulls and the field full of cows. 
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#367742 - 10/15/08 11:54 PM
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My production team signed a deal with a major Hollywood company for a web deal followed by a book deal. They then bought the rights to a script based on our college exploits for a movie deal. $2-$3 million budget and a release sometime in 2009. Its in pre-production right now. 
I forget which book I read it in, but the advice was 'Always tell people you are currently in pre-production on a whole slate of projects even when you have nothing going on'.
Also, I'd just like to add that I am currently pre-fucking Aria Giovanni. We haven't actually done the deed yet, and there's no hard and fast timeframe or schedule in place as we speak, and no commitment from Aria herself as of yet (not even so much as a letter of intent) but I'm working on it. It's totally going to happen though. I am also going to be pre-fucking Carli Banks too, probably.
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#367744 - 10/16/08 02:39 AM
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Porn Jesus
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Stevie wrote: Quote:
The projects had a few different names and a producer attached.
Was that producer maybe Porno Dan Leal?
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#367745 - 10/16/08 01:11 PM
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This will never make it to the screen, but I guess SG walks away with bragging rights for sucking Soderbergh's dick. Although why she'd trade her status as an A-list PW for the dubious honor of being a mediocre, D-list "actress" escapes me. Mainstream movies have been utter shit for the past 3 decades. If Grey really wants to be edgy, she'd stick to porn. Sellout.
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#367748 - 10/16/08 02:48 PM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
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I forget which book I read it in, but the advice was 'Always tell people you are currently in pre-production on a whole slate of projects even when you have nothing going on'.
Also, I'd just like to add that I am currently pre-fucking Aria Giovanni. We haven't actually done the deed yet, and there's no hard and fast timeframe or schedule in place as we speak, and no commitment from Aria herself as of yet (not even so much as a letter of intent) but I'm working on it. It's totally going to happen though. I am also going to be pre-fucking Carli Banks too, probably.
If that's the case, then I call dibs on "Pre" fucking Gia Jordan 
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#367749 - 10/16/08 02:52 PM
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Gay For Pay
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I'm still in the "believe it when I see it" mode but....
If this does turn out to be true, this will be the biggest crossover in the history of porn. This will be the first "legit" movie made by a "legit" director with a porn whore in a meaningful role. Every other crossover hasn't really been a crossover at all. Jenna Jameson has been in B movies, mostly playing the naked chick. Traci Lords same thing. Ron Jeremy has had some crossover success in reality TV.
But I can't think of any serious, staring role that has ever gone to a porn whore. There was another thread devoted to this topic and all the parts mentioned were bit parts as the naked chick with no dialogue.
So if it does turn out to be true it'll be a major accomplishment whether you like Sasha or not.
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#367750 - 10/16/08 03:05 PM
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So if it does turn out to be true it'll be a major accomplishment whether you like Sasha or not.
Assuming anybody goes to see it. When's the last time this "auteur" was relevant?
I strongly suspect her "acting" is going to be as scintillating as the yammering in her fuck flicks.
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#367751 - 10/16/08 04:05 PM
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Porn Jesus
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These days I know that's a waste of money. When one can get a whore overnight for $750-1000 who's 60% as good-looking, and 120% as nasty, and comes equipped with an eight-ball, the 10K hooker is a waste of money.
Most of the clients of a 10k hooker are going to be CEO types who are in town for a meeting, charity event or such. She's paid mostly to look elegant at a black tie event at the Symphony, provide intelligent conversation over cocktails with other attendees afterward, etc. If someone mentions they're just back from a vacation in France she's expected to know what continent that's on, and bonus points if she can discuss the local cathedral etc.
The old man who hired her is not going to last more than a few minutes in bed anyway so exotic porn circus acts don't need to be in her repertoire. She's paid $300 for the BJ you can get from any PW and $9,700 for the other stuff that you will never get from any PW.
10k hookers don't advertise on Craiglist or appear in porn videos. I would bet they slip back into civilian life pretty easily whenever they want, being able to later claim they had spent those years as an artist, in music, or something else that leaves few traces.
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#367752 - 10/16/08 04:46 PM
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Human Garbage
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She's paid $300 for the BJ you can get from any PW and $9,700 for the other stuff that you will never get from any PW.
True dat. And that's why at 30 spending the money this way was a tragic waste. When I'm 60, perhaps.
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