Would pornstars be casted in hollywood

Would pornstars whether they are currently active or not ever get casted into hollywood films or tv shows? Has there been any examples of people who have gone in? Perhaps once they got retired?

Has anyone transitioned from hollywood to porn or vice versa?

If they could be casted, who do you think could do well in films/tv shows where sex/nudity would prob be done but not heavily emphasized?

I like to think Abella Danger could do well in those American Pie style comedies.
 
Unfortunately being a pornstar is a big no for hollywood. And pornstars are not very good at acting.
Transitionning to porn from mainstream but I think what happened with Maitland Ward, all the hype that her transition has generated, all the praises she received from the industry might change that, a little...

But I think high profile porn directors (such as Greg Lansky or Kayden Kross) would do pretty well if they had the opportunity to direct a mainstream low-budget movie.
 
Unfortunately being a pornstar is a big no for hollywood. And pornstars are not very good at acting.

Whats the main reason as a big no? I mean you can argue and say musicians or artists are not good at acting and they sometimes are in films even if its cameo?
 

ArthurTurner

God Bless Christian Louboutin
A few adult performers have crossed over and landed parts in Hollywood films. The most notable was Sasha Grey, who got the lead in the Stephen Soderbergh film The Girlfriend Experience in 2009 and also starred in the 2014. movie Open Windows with Elijah Wood. She also had a six episode arc on Entourage (she played herself) in which she was Vinnie Chase's girlfriend. Sasha's credits can be found here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2340248/?ref_=tt_cl_t6.

Then there's James Deen who starred opposite Lindsey Lohan in The Canyons (2013). The movie was terrible but Deen was not bsd, typecast as a sadistic boyfriend. There were two other porn performers in smaller parts -- Danny Wylde and Lily LaBeau.

In 2008, Katie Morgan made a guest appearance on HBO's Entourage (2004) playing herself. She made her first mainstream feature film appearance in Kevin Smith's 2008 comedy, Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. She also made three specials for HBO. You can find the particulars here:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1883235/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1876353/?ref_=tt_sims_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1883235/?ref_=tt_sims_tt

Several porn stars, most of them women, have popped up on cable series. Often they play themselves (in their porn characters). If you watched Entourage, you'll find a lot of them.

Six active or retired porn stars appeared on Game of Thrones -- Sahara Knite, Samantha Bentley, Maisie Dee, Aeryn Walker, Jessica Jensen, and Sibel Kekilli.

https://nypost.com/2014/04/08/meet-the-6-porn-stars-who-have-appeared-on-game-of-thrones/
 

maildude

Postal Paranoiac
Don't really watch the show despite hearing good things for this. SO is she a big actress following GOT? Due to the sex scenes which is heavily done in the show, do you think her casting was simply the director thinking sex workers prob have no problem getting their kit off for those scenes? So they got 1

She had a major role. She played Shae, Tyrion's whore lover. Here's a bit:

 

John_8581

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Pornstars who made it to mainstream :

  • Nina Hartley was in the movie Boogie Nights (1997), that starred Mark Wahlberg with Burt Reynolds. Nina played William H. Macy's wife.

  • Then Pandora Peaks appeared in Striptease (1996) starring Demi Moore and again with Burt Reynolds. Pandora played a stripper.

  • I think there was another pornstar, I forget her name, who was in Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984). She played the double to Melanie Griffin. Melanie's breasts weren't large enough in the closeups if I remember correctly. Although, I always get that movie mixed up with another De Palma classic Dressed to Kill (1980) starring Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson.
 
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  • I think there was another pornstar, I forget her name, who was in Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984). She played the double to Melanie Griffin. Melanie's breasts weren't large enough in the closeups if I remember correctly. Although, I always get that movie mixed up with another De Palma classic Dressed to Kill (1980) starring Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson.

That Angie Dickenson shower scene from Dressed To Kill caused quite a bit of conversation. The woman in the shower was way too hot, busty, and young to be Angie Dickenson. Great shower scene too. Who was Angie's body double for that?
 

John_8581

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I don't want to take the thread off topic ...
That Angie Dickinson shower scene from Dressed To Kill caused quite a bit of conversation. The woman in the shower was way too hot, busty, and young to be Angie Dickinson. Great shower scene too. Who was Angie's body double for that?
I remember that scene. Though it probably was her. Remember, she was naked in that movie with William Shatner Big Bad Mama (1974). She was gorgeous in that one too.
 
I don't want to take the thread off topic ...
I remember that scene. Though it probably was her. Remember, she was naked in that movie with William Shatner Big Bad Mama (1974). She was gorgeous in that one too.

This is where the confusion lies. The producers wanted her to claim that was really her in the shower and not mention a body double.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080661/trivia
In the Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) shower scene, a body double was used. When the movie first came out, the producers encouraged the then forty-eight-year-old Dickinson to claim the body was hers. However, it soon came out that it was actually Victoria Johnson.
 
Ashlyn Gere had a guest role on The X-Fles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtFx3VK-gU0

She also had a recurring role in Space Above and Beyond as a bad but hot looking android, helping the aliens kill humans.

Don't forget possibly the greatest cross over Traci Lords. She's done quite well for herself after the porn scandal, with movie parts, her recurring part in First Wave and looking at her IMDB page, she's been acting almost constantly since the late 80's.
 

John_8581

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Nice followup Dino. I was so used to seeing Vikki LaMotta's hot pictures in Playboy around this time. Vikki was was 51 in November 1981 when she posed for the magazine. And I always said to myself, "if Vikki looks that hot at 51.Since Angie keeps herself in really good shape being in her late forties. (in reality, Angie was forty-eight) so that must've been Angie in that shower scene." But now that you told me it was Victoria Johnson. I'm a believer in the use of a body double by Mr. De Palma.
 
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Whats the main reason as a big no? I mean you can argue and say musicians or artists are not good at acting and they sometimes are in films even if its cameo?
Because of all the stigmas around porn and pornstars.
 
Don't forget about Sibel Kekilli. Game Of Thrones was a big step for her.

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When she was hired for GoT, she had left porn like 10 years before and her porn career had been quite short (2001-2002). And she played Shae, a hooker...

If you happen to have had a very short porn career a long time ago, you can be in mainstream movies or TV-shows but if you've been in porn for like 10 years and retired like 1 or 2 years ago, don't even think about having a part in a mainstream movie or TV-show (unless it's a B movie, something like Sharknado, Iron Sky, Piranha 3D, etc...)
 
Sibel Kekilli had been in several 'proper' films prior to being in GoT, most notably Head On/Gegen Die Wand which got some respectable reviews (I watched it about 10 years ago, its quite an impressive film but to be honest I thought it was depressing so I haven't been in a rush to watch it again), so its not like she jumped straight from hardcore to the mainstream (and she appears to be continuing to work in the mainstream, unlike the other actresses mention here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1402546/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 )
 
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