Adult Model Makes Good

First, sorry for the lack of updates this past week. I've been in a profound funk. I still am. Personal shit.

OTOH, the pretty girl you're looking at is Sasha Grey. Sasha is a well-known adult model and performer whom I've photographed on more than a few occasions. Apparently, Ms. Grey is moving up in the world; the entertainment world, that is.

Reports say that Sasha has landed the leading role in Academy Award winning director, Steven Soderbergh's, newest film, The Girlfriend Experience. Soderbergh is best known for his films, Sex Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and Ocean's 11.

Here's an article from adult industry trade journal, XBiz:

NEW YORK — Hollywood director behind cult classic “Sex, Lies and Videotape” has tapped adult star Sasha Grey to star in his upcoming feature film.

Hollywood trade journal Variety earlier this year reported that Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh planned to cast an adult film star as the lead in “The Girlfriend Experience.” The film is a low-budget feature film told from a perspective of a $10,000-a-night escort.

This week, several outlets reported Soderbergh decided to cast Grey as the lead in the Magnolia Pictures production. The film is now shooting in New York.

The film will be financed by HDNet label partners, Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner. It's the second in a six-picture deal with Soderbergh to direct low-budget films to be distributed in theaters, on cable TV and DVD simultaneously.

Sasha Grey was traveling and couldn’t be immediately reached.

Soderbergh won the ‘Best Director’ Oscar in 2000 for “Traffic,” a gritty depiction of international drug smugglers and the federal agents who pursue them. He was previously nominated for the award for “Erin Brockovich” and “Sex, Lies and Videotape.”

Good luck, Sasha! Break a leg and all that showbiz stuff!

Image of Sasha from a 10-day shoot last summer. It was Vivid Entertainment's remake of Deep Throat and Sasha was cast in the leading role. BTW, Showtime produced a reality series about the remaking of the most famous adult film ever which, I'm told, will begin airing sometime between this November and January. '09. If you catch it when it airs, I'm also told I appear in a fair bit of it. I should be easy to spot-- I'm the middle-aged, over-weight, photographer-guy pointing his camera at naked chicks.