I’m driving on Sunset Boulevard, heading east, passing thickets of scarlet bougainvillea. I’m on my way to meet Sasha Grey, the 22-year-old star of countless adult films who doesn’t have breast implants, blonde hair or collagen in her lips and doesn’t look like a porn star. Here’s what I know about Sasha: She reads William S. Burroughs and Anaïs Nin and likes the films of Michelangelo Antonioni. I know that she gave an intriguing performance last year in Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, that she’s currently playing herself on Entourage and that she’s going “mainstream,” as she puts it, by abandoning the porn industry she broke into in 2006 with her singular mix of calculation and rashness.
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