I’m not sure porn actors/actresses doing porn in their role strictly meets the intent of the OP, because they up front see the job requirement and are signing up for that role.
I also wouldn’t really count Vic Morrow and the kids dying in an accident. Sure, the safety precautions were violated and the situation was tragic, but they didn’t agree to die.
The guy who mutilated himself on film might qualify except it sounds like something he would have done anyway.
Mainstream actors/actresses having sex on film qualifies because it is not industry standard, and there is an expectation that the sex isn’t real. Also, casting couch episodes count because the sex act is not a part of the job, but a hiring criteria imposed that the actor may not desire for itself, but to get the role.
I’d like to hear more about this Nick Cage extracting his own teeth thing. The details of what he did and why are fuzzy in this thread.
So far, the guys who lost extreme amounts of weight to the psycho unhealthy level seem to be winning, though putting on extreme weight is also noteworthy.
[QUOTE=hajario]
Persis Khambatta beat Demi by over ten years in the first Star Trek movie.
[/QUOTE]
Ah, how fleeting fame, how fickle pop culture. I bet anyone under 30 is thinking “What’s so special about Demi Moore shaving her head?” whereas for Natalie Portman it’s “Holy crap, she would do that?” Persis Khambatta is a “So?” Kinda like that guy in STIII with the big dangly earlobes with the holes in them. Nowadays you can see that at your corner coffee shop, but at the time that was incredibly impressive to me.
My post was a response to the statement that implied that a “porn star” could never be an “actor”. This is an example of a person who was a porn star and is now a very highly acclaimed actor.
Ah, OK. Re-reading it, the implication seems to be that any actor who actually has sex on film is now a porn star, or a “slut”, and is no longer worthy of serious consideration.
No, Small Hen did not declare that “any actor who actually has sex on film is now a porn star,” in fact she explicitly stated Chloe Sevigny as an example that fits the template.
I think some of us are making a distinction between a film that’s purpose is to show sex, and frames it with a scene about a pizza delivery guy getting met by a hot chick in a robe, is distinct from a film that’s purpose is to tell a story or make an artistic statement or whatever, and happens to include a sex scene to further that story. Especially when mainstream sex scenes don’t usually show actual sex. YMMV.
Little Nemo listed a string of actresses he said were “mainstream” that did sex on camera. Eyebrows of Doom was pointing out that “mainstream” appears to be a shaky description in several of those examples.
I may have been unclear but my first post was intended to say that Chloe Sevigny should NOT fit the profile, because what she did is absolutely routine for porn actors. There was nothing outrageous about it.
And if she DOES fit the profile, then I think Small Hen is not putting porn actors in the pool of “actors” at all. Because there’d be hundreds or thousands of them higher on the list than her.
Again, my example of Sibel Kekilli is someone who undeniably starred in hard-core pornographic films has had a highly decorated career in non-sexual roles. Sibel Kekilli did sexually explicit films under a different name. After that career, she stared in a film and got great acclaim. After that, somebody noticed that she was “Dilara”.
What has proven virtually impossible is for a “porn” actor to move into non-porn roles. The problem is not one of acting talent, but of hypocrisy.
I’m bumping this old thread to mention that Rob McElhenney, who plays Mac on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, gained 50 pounds because he thought it would be funny for the show. More recently, he lost it all again.
Whoa, debating whether a zombification comment was a good idea, then deciding that it would be better to let it go, then debating a good way to say “Nevermind” and <BUZZZZZZZZ> outtatime.
