Fade to grey
When I was a kid you the way you worked out your porn star moniker was the name of your first pet plus your mother’s maiden name. Real life porn star Sasha Grey – born Marina Ann Hantzis – took her name from the founder of German industrial rock band KMFDM, Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and the Kinsey scale of sexuality – which puts everyone on a scale from 0 (heterosexual) to 6 (homosexual). Logically Grey is in the middle which means both, or all, or everything.
The magic of Sasha Grey is that she embodies everything a man/woman desires – and has tenacity – sexual and otherwise – beyond her years. At 21 she already has a number of AVN awards (the Oscars for the adult movie industry) including ‘best three way sex scene’ and ‘best group sex scene’ – amongst her alternative accolades. She’s in a band called Altacine that makes experimental death dub noise, and has her own production company, LA Factory Girls.
Now, director Steven Soderbergh has cast Miss Grey in his latest film ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ out on Friday. Ok, so we know that her transition from adult to mainstream film has been greeted with mixed reactions by critics – but we can’t help but look on with fascination. She’s hot enough to sway anyone’s Kinsey rating, and somehow we can’t help but love her.
