Best three-way sex scene, best group sex scene, best oral sex scene
— these were some of porn star Sasha Grey’s highest accolades until she
was scooped up by Steven Soderbergh to star in “The Girlfriend
Experience,” a mainstream movie chronicling the career and love life of
an upscale escort.
“It’s a really great film to throw into contemporary American
theater,” said Grey, looking more like the girl-next-door than the
girl-doing-the-guys next-door in a t-shirt and jeans with oversized
bronze earrings. Grey sat down with Blast during an appearance in
Boston.
Born in Sacramento, California, 21-year-old entered the adult film
industry in 2006, shortly after she turned 18. Since then, she has
appeared in more than 80 films. “The Girlfriend Experience” is her
first mainstream movie, and the work she is most proud of.
“It felt really natural,” she said of making the movie. “I felt completely in my own element.”
For a girl whose element is usually much raunchier, Grey found
herself totally invested in “The Girlfriend Experience,” researching
the role and even creating her character’s back-story.
She read blogs of real-life escorts and met with them as well. Her character, Christine (alias Chelsea), is guided by personology
books and writes in her journal after every date, things Grey picked up
from the escorts she met and thought would flesh out her character
nicely.
Grey, who is engaged, said she doesn’t have a lot in common with her character.
“It’s quite different because I don’t have to go onto an adult set
and pretend to be somebody’s girlfriend like Chelsea does, you know, I
don’t have that intimacy with the people I’m having sex with,” she
said.
But now, Grey is hoping to parlay her experience in “The Girlfriend Experience” into a mainstream acting career.
