Sasha Grey interview in Rolling Stone
Though the pornography biz has been reshaped by the recession and the digital age, Grey has managed to make the jump from bondage flicks on the ‘Net to a Steven Soderbergh film at the Tribeca Film Festival. But as Grigoriadis quickly learned, Grey is far from a typical porn star. She’s co-managed by Dave Navarro, pals with Billy Corgan and cites French director Jean-Luc Godard in everyday conversation. While most porn actresses would jump at the chance to get naked on the Howard Stern Show, Sasha wants to appear on the shock jock’s program with a Palestinian flag wrapped around her breasts to confront the man she believes is a closet racist.
Soon, Grey will be seen on the big screen as a call girl in Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience (watch the film’s trailer here). “She definitely has higher aspirations, far larger than porn,” says Grigoriadis. “She wants to get into indie mainstream film; I can’t see her being interested in any Michael Bay projects,” she adds, referring to the director of blockbusters like Transformers. “She took acting lessons for 10 years in Sacramento, so she wants to be an actress.”
Grey also told Grigoriadis she aspires to be like controversial French author/director Catherine Breillat, who elevated conventional pornography into something more artistic and sumptuous. “She is not that interested in a lot of the porn she shoots anymore,” Grigoriadis tells Rock Daily. “She said, ‘I don’t need to see genitalia up close; I don’t need to see a dirty yellow couch against a white wall. I want to see something different, like this is not exciting to me.’ ”
Rolling Stone: Sasha Grey, The Dirtiest Girl in the World: The Story Behind the Story
(via Notes From Somewhere Bizarre)
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