A late-night host looked Sasha Grey in the eye and read her filmography out loud: Throat: A Cautionary Tale - yes. Massive Facials - yes. Gangbang My Face - yes. Then he got to The Bucket List and she said no. He paused: "Right, that's the Jack Nicholson one." She didn't flinch once. She was 21 and had just been cast by Steven Soderbergh.
In the video below, she sits on mainstream TV and gets her porn career read back to her title by title.
She'd just landed the lead in The Girlfriend Experience. The host told her she did a great job. Then with a straight face said he'd done some research.
F*** Buckets 8? Probably a typo. Throat: A Cautionary Tale? Yes. Massive Facials? Yes. Gangbang My Face? Yes.
When he asked what she thought of titles like that, she went serious. She said it's an insult to the audience. That producers basically signal to their customers they're not worth a real title.
On dialogue in porn: sparse, unless it's a feature. She said she prepares something specific for every sex scene anyway - not the lead-up, the actual scene. She wants a real reaction.
She said she wanted to change the industry from the moment she entered at 18. The old boy network didn't want to hear it from a teenager. She quoted Boogie Nights: she wanted people to keep watching even after they finished.
Some lessons are written in other people's mistakes. Watch it once. Remember it forever.