Porn Stars Are Now Finding It Easier to Break into Hollywood (as Fucking Extras)
LatestPrior to its second season premiere date, True Detective made headlines after hiring several porn actresses for what the Hollywood Reporter called a “deliriously vast orgy sequence involving dozens of naked bodies in Eyes Wide Shut-caliber sex antics.” Turns out that, according to a new report by LA Weekly, True Detective is actually one of many television series that are now turning to the adult film world to find actors for their raunchier and more graphic sex scenes.
In the past several years, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, and Ray Donavan have all hired porn stars, usually to perform scenes that more mainstream Hollywood actors are not comfortable with.
“Working with adult performers is easier, for nudity aspects, because they have no inhibitions about getting naked in front of the camera. Whereas if you call Central Casting and go, ‘I need 20 girls to be on a porn set, semi-naked,’ it’s like a really hard order to fill,” says Howard Levine, a porn distributor who fell into porn contracting work after being cast as a biker extra on Sons of Anarchy. He became a unofficial consultant for the show and was eventually given a official casting position.
Kurt Sutter, the creator of Sons of Anarchy, explain his reasoning for hiring both Levine and adult film actors to LA Weekly’s Lila Seidman: