Porn fans - is Stormy good at her job? I’ve never seen a Stormy Daniels clip (wouldn’t even know where to find one), nor am I a connoisseur of porn in general.
So what’s the porn community’s opinion of her?
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I just searched around for Stormy Daniels clips, trying to find ones where she was acting rather than just having sex. I found that a little difficult, which may be a sign that porn producers don’t cast her in roles where she has a lot of dialogue or plays a character. I found several scenes where the other actors all had a dozen lines of dialogue and Daniels only had one or two.
I did find some scenes, however, where she delivered some lines before getting down to the sex. And I think the best I can say for her acting ability is that it’s average. Not the worst acting I’ve seen in a porn movie but far from the best.
Let me put it this way: if I was casting a mainstream commercial to sell cars or cell phones or beer, I probably wouldn’t hire her.
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Truth be told, I’d never even heard of her before the kerfuffle.
Porn is a different beast than it used to be. It’s not really the bleached blonde, silicon-boobed, brazilian-wax wasteland it used to be, and the most popular of the nameable stars are less known these days. Because anybody with a phone can make their own amateur shows for the price of a camera tripod, it’s become less about “stars” and more about niche interests.
Read any blog post about internet porn, and they’ll mention PornHub and RedTube then struggle to come up with another site name, but there are literally thousands of sites, and most are making good money from subscriptions alone, despite the ton of free stuff available for the rest of us.
Lol, how could anyone forget about XHamster? I mean, if there was ever a name intended to be memorable, it’s that one.
I’m going to bet Richard Gere doesn’t endorse it.
I saw a billboard by the freeway with her on it the other day. It seemed to be promoting an upcoming appearance at a “Gentleman’s Club” called The Library.
Lol the OP wouldn’t even know where to find a Stormy Daniels clip??? Riiiiiiiiggghhhttt…
Missed the edit window. Google was not able to provide specifics about any such putative appearance, so perhaps I misread the billboard.
And while, say, the Kenny Loggins official website may have information about where he’ll be appearing in the coming months, the same cannot be said for the official Stormy Daniels website.
There is a porn parody of Stormy spanking a Trump look alike while he is wearing a MAGA cap.
Not enough brain bleach in the world.
She was definitely a name in the porn biz, but her peak was a little while ago, like early-mid 2000s. She still directs and she was in the post-Jenna Jameson wave of contract girls who had a little mainstream crossover but not quite the celebrity. IIRC she mostly worked for Wicked, which was one of the top brands (probably right below Vivid) at it’s peak but also one of the most tame - they use condoms and make stuff that can (and has) run on Skinemax and other softcore premium/ppv with a little editing. Those Vivid and Wicked contract girls from the mid-90s to mid-00s or so were the most likely to pop up in mainstream cameos and media. The question of “good at her job” isn’t really answered by someone criticizing her non-sex acting. Her job is looking the part and having the sex.
I just have to trust that the OP has never ever “Googled” something, and just comes to the Dope for all interneting.
Her pornstar ranking on Pornhub has been at #1 for quite some time since all this information has come out so she definitely has seen a resurgence in popularity, I’m sure a lot of people have wondered the same thing as the OP.
She seems to be good at stress management.
She can take anything.
I’d venture to say that these days, with all the competition there is out there. If you can make yourself a household name in the pron biz, I’d say you’re probably pretty good at whatever it is you do. Be that acting or marketing your brand.
In other words: You have to do more than just “be pretty” to be a success (Upwards of a million dollars) in the post internet porn industry.
Daniels is from the era in which top stars supplemented their income with personal appearances at strip clubs.
I recall reading that Daniels was one of the select few that were popular enough to get relatively comfortable doing that and also get a few mainstream film credits.
It seems to me that at her peak she was one of the most popular and successful in the business.
She was big around 12-15 years ago, hadn’t heard of her in a long time before this whole kerfuffle.
Was the pun intended?
And to be fair to the OP, just Googling “Stormy Daniels” is probably going to be dominated by news stories right now, not her professional work.
She is a member of the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame, which are not nearly as exclusive as you might imagine but still selective enough that if it were your thing you’d recognize all the names of the inductees.
So yes, she was quite popular, which in the adult business implies that she was very good. Finding women to have sex on camera isn’t exactly difficult, so to achieve the level she did in the business she must have been in demand, hence “good”.