{"id":7540,"date":"2010-03-18T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:37:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:37:53","slug":"sasha-grey-tries-chastity-for-new-horror-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/18\/sasha-grey-tries-chastity-for-new-horror-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasha Grey Tries Chastity For New Horror Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SashaGrey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7544 alignright\" title=\"SashaGrey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SashaGrey-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>Adult film star Sasha Grey is taking a purity pledge for the upcoming horror film <strong>Hallows<\/strong> in which she&#8217;ll be appearing very much against type as a young christian woman who has vowed to abstain from sex before marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Director Richard O&#8217;Sullivan states that Grey&#8217;s casting fits in with what he wants to do with his film-<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hallows<\/strong> basically takes the standard  kids-in-the-woods-running-from-a-killer genre and flips it on its ear.  The deaths aren&#8217;t random. They&#8217;re not cookie cutter. Each character dies  in a fashion relating to the way they live their life. I&#8217;m less  interested in gore-for-the-sake-of-gore (although there is gore in this  film and plenty of it) than the psychology behind the characters and how  they react to what happens. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re happy to be working with  Sasha. She&#8217;s more interested in the psychology behind the action than  just the action itself. That&#8217;s what she conveys in her work in the adult  genre and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going for in this film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Grey&#8217;s appearance in the film isn&#8217;t the only bit of cross-expectation casting going on. O&#8217;Sullivan has also hired Christina Cupo, best known for her work in Christian-themed films, to play a pierced and tattooed goth girl who likes rough sex.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing new in porn stars crossing over to work in mainstream films. Traci Lords has even managed to leave behind her old career entirely and carve out a decent, if low-key, post-porn filmography. But most of the times that adult entertainers crossover, the roles they play generally play into the audience&#8217;s knowledge of the actor as porn star. This is probably the most counter-intuitive casting since former Playboy Playmate Stella Stevens played a nun in 1968&#8217;s <strong>Where Angels Go Trouble Follows<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Grey has made quite a name for herself in the adult entertainer business in just the few short years she&#8217;s been in it. In the documentary <strong>9 To 5: Days Of Porn<\/strong>, she discusses her credo of self-empowerment through her work. In addition to proving to be a popular actress, she is demonstrating savvy business sense as well. She has already made a few mainstream acting appearances, including a solid performance in Steven Soderburgh&#8217;s drama The Girlfriend Experience. I should be interesting to see what she does with the role.<\/p>\n<p>And looking to the future, will it be possible for Grey to continue working in both adult and mainstream films? Common wisdom would say &#8220;No,&#8221; but I think that Grey may have a few more career surprises up her sleeve.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130518032741\/http:\/\/blog.moviefone.com:80\/2010\/03\/16\/richard-osullivan-talks-more-about-sasha-grey-trading-porn-for\" target=\"_blank\">Horror Squad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Adult film star Sasha Grey is taking a purity pledge for the upcoming horror film Hallows in which she&#8217;ll be appearing very much against type as a young christian woman who has vowed to abstain <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/18\/sasha-grey-tries-chastity-for-new-horror-film\/\" title=\"Sasha Grey Tries Chastity For New Horror Film\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[21,2608,2609,2607],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-casting","8":"tag-hallows","9":"tag-richard-osullivan","10":"tag-sasha-grey"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7540"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=7540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}