Yeah. We know. She’s a porn star. Pretty much THE porn star of the moment. And we really don’t care much for many porn stars. Let’s just say that while many of them look good, they’re mostly dumb as a brick and then there’s the whole had sex with 10,000 sketchy dudes thing. Needless to say not really Bitch of the Day material.
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say:
Sasha Grey (born Marina Ann Hantzis, on March 14, 1988, in North Highlands, California) is an award-winning American pornographic actress. A. O. Scott of the New York Times described her pornographic career as “distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it.” She is also active outside of pornography through modeling, acting, and music.
Sasha Grey is probably one of the more intelligent people I’ve seen in pop culture, period. Which is why she gets to be Bitch of the Day. While our current culture shoves stupid women like Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson down our throats every day, it’s a very telling about our society that a young woman this intelligent and talented could rise through the ranks of porn and crossover into mainstream acting.
That’s right, she’s appearing in a movie that you won’t have to wear a raincoat to go see in the theatre. The Girlfriend Experience, the new movie by Steven Soderberg (Traffic; sex, lies and videotape; Schizopolis). It’s even released simultaneously in theatres, dvd, on demand video and digital download as part of Soderberg’s new media experiment that he’s down with his latest films, starting with Bubble.
Hell, even her personal top five movies list in this interview on rotten tomatoes rules. Seriously, 4 Criterion Collection art house films and Escape from New York? No way. Most pr0n chicks would probably put down something like 4 Will Ferrel movies and The Da Vinci Code.
Not to mention that she’s named herself after the lead singer of KMFDM, one of rowtow.com’s favorite bands and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Not exactly your first pet’s name and the street you grew up on. She cites Jean-Luc Godard and David Bowie as influences on her life and career.
She also has a music project called ATelecine, which sounds like somethig I’d have totally rocked back in High School when I was in the Trench Coat Mafia.
Here’s her on Tyra, amazingly sounding rather intelligent in the face batshit hysterical daytime talk show people:








