hyperlexian wrote:
no, she is being touted as someone more important than any old nice, presentable, and personable volunteer. she was intentionally brought in as a special guest, which is different than having a random person come in and read. she is only famous for the porn, not for the "acting" she did after that, so she is kind of irrelevant as any sort of special guest.
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I don't watch porn yet I have seen one of her movies. She was actually the star of a Steven Soderbergh movie and he's a pretty respectable director.
Oceans Eleven, Oceans Twelve, Syriana, Sex Lies and Videotape etc. etc. etc. He has a long and excellent resume and is one of my favorite directors so I just automatically rent any movie I know he has directed. This is how I saw a Sasha Gray movie. She was the star of
Girlfriend Experience by him. She played a prostitute and was not a very good actress. Disappointed, I went to IMDB to find out why Steven Soderbergh had hired a terrible actress to star in his movie. That's when I found out she was a porn star.
All this is to say that I can understand how this happened. Probably somebody heard she was the star of a Steven Soderbergh movie (and she was!) and to that person, that was her fame. Of course none of those kids could see that movie since it's a hard R but I strongly suspect that whoever made this decision hadn't seen it either. They were probably thinking of his very famous Oceans movies and made some assumptions. They couldn't get Julia Roberts (who starred in his Oceans movies) but they got this other actress who starred in one of his movies. And then people just got starstruck by the concept of having somebody who was the star of a Steven Soderbergh movie and never investigated deeper than that,