There’s a lot of talk about “so-and-so’s going to be doing hardcore porn soon” whenever some actress/actor manages to badly bobble his/her career. But that almost never happens. What DOES happen is that such actresses/actors wind up doing nude scenes in softcore films, most often “erotic thrillers” which give at least minimal cover to being something other than pure porn. I’ll cite some examples:
Ads for your new softcore porn series are showing up on the premium cable channel that’s running it. (David Duchovny, “Californication” on Showtime).
You’re really, REALLY determined to shed that ‘little girl’ image you picked up in that long-running TV series you played such a charming urchin on. (Alyssa Milano, "Embrace of the Vampire.)
That movie you were in when you were younger typecast you so badly that when you became an adult actress, you had trouble finding roles in movies that weren’t “adult” for a while. (Lysette Anthony, Dead Cold and others.)
Your drinking/drug problems have gotten so bad that you’ve been arrested for DUI/possession several times and the people who write insurance for movies are getting real nervous about you. (Lindsay Lohan hasn’t done any erotic thrillers yet, though “I Know Who Killed Me” looks like it might be one.)
Baywatch was cancelled and you need another job. (Krista Allen, Pamela Anderson, Traci Bingham, Yasmine Bleeth, Donna D’Errico, Nicole Eggert, Carmen Electra, Erika Eleniak, Gena Lee Nolin, Alexandra Paul, Brande Roderick)
I have no idea who Lysette Anthony is. A good example might Anne Hathaway from “Princess Diaries”. Before she showed the goods in “Brokeback Mountain” she did a move called “Havoc” with a pretty explicit topless sex scene.
Good point, shoulda been more specific. Anthony played the kidnapped princess in Krull. She was later quoted bemoaning the fact that her role in Krull had typecast her and made it hard to find work as an adult. A shame, even as an adult she retained those huge, luminous eyes.
So you get tired of working on “Days of Our Lives” and you do some softcore. But the spousal abuse is kinda heavy, so you call the cops. Poor actress. Wait a minute … it’s Brian Heidik, an actor…
The name I think MAY fall suprisingly into this one is:
Anniston. As in, Jennifer Anniston. Her rape scene in “Derailed” isn’t at all pornographic, or for that matter, visible. But I found the movie too murky and boring to watch so I can’t say it’s an erotic anything. But Anniston does have a naked sex scene. Maybe her appearance in “Derailed” is a precursor of sorts …
Well, I do remember reading that she posed for some nude or semi nude photos because she was trying to get off Seventh Heaven/shed the squeaky clean image.
Dunno if any of her naked scenes in actual movies qualify as softcore, though.
She does appear to have posed nude in a sex scene, though with nothing but breasts showing, in the movie “London” according to Robb’s Celebrity Damsels. Pics at the link. NSFW s linking disabled. You’ll have to copy and paste.