The Sasha Grey Interview: This Week’s SF Chronicle Column

Here’s Grey in a sexy gallery.

Hey, I interviewed Sasha Grey. It was cool. People who follow me on Twitter asked her questions, too. It’s neat. The film, and what Soderbergh is doing with it media-wise and in methodology is really quite fucking amazing. And a social experiment worth paying attention to. On SF Gate the haters are in full effect: big props to the people getting my (and Sasha’s) back in there. Trolls: Fuck you. Try harder. Bo-ring.

Read: The Sasha Grey Experience – Violet Blue: An exclusive interview with the star of Steven Soderbergh’s “The Girlfriend Experience” (includes exclusive gallery courtesy of Magnolia Pictures, sfgate.com)

Before I give you the snip, here are many galleries of Sasha doing her thing in my hometown — just to get the niceties out of the way, of course. Meanwhile, Sasha called Howard Stern a racist, which is fun to watch unfold. I’ve been asked on that show a number of times but always say no. I just think I’ll take a pass on programs where they throw slices of baloney onto Playboy Playmates’ asses. I’m cool to skip adding that shit to my resume, kthx.

Free galleries with videos:

* In a new Fucking Machines spanking gallery, yum.
* Fun with sex machines.
* Sasha Grey shot by Richard Kern.
* Sasha humiliates Trina Michaels at Device Bondage.
* Sasha in a straightjacket.
* In bondage with a pink-haired punk girl.
* An older shoot where she’s 18 and with her first fucking machine.
* Bound and forced to orgasm at Hogtied.
* At 18, playing a journalist in a bondage fantasy.
* Dominating Riley Shy last month at the Armory.
* Playing a “sex addict” in a girl-girl femdom medical/nurse fantasy.
* Domming on WiredPussy.
* Sasha in an incredible water bondage shoot.
* Princess Donna shocks Sasha to crazy hard orgasms.
* Her first bondage shoot, ever. No, really.

From my SF Chronicle interview:

Steven Soderbergh did a lot of unpredictable things with his new film “The Girlfriend Experience.” At the January Sundance sneak preview of the film he projected a 1080p reduction of the file, then a “work in progress.” This week he released it on Amazon as a video on demand rental before it hits theaters on May 22. Soderbergh shot it with a 4K-Red digital camera (a camera so light and light-sensitive that only two scenes in the film required more illumination than was already in the room), he made the film in 16 days for a budget of $1.7 million, it was largely improvised, and he cast non-professional actors. He said he “hired real people and turned them loose” including journalist Mark Jacobsen cast as a journalist and movie reviewer Glenn Kenny playing an escort reviewer. That he cast Sasha Grey as the high-end Manhattan sex worker was exciting but not entirely unpredictable; Grey herself is as complex and layered and mesmerizing as a Soderbergh film itself — that’s why Grey’s fans cross all kinds of cultural and moral divides.

For me, Sasha Grey is “The Girlfriend Experience” (trailer) personified. A “girlfriend experience” (as shown in the film) is an expensive branch of sex work where a groomed, cultured, and pedigreed escort is the client’s companion: physically, intellectually, and emotionally. Yes, there is nudity in the film, but there is no hardcore or explicit sex, as many assumed would be when it was made known that Soderbergh cast an adult actress in the role of sex worker. This just glares the “girlfriend experience” Hollywood perception in the face — do you want to see Grey naked and having sex? You can. Go right ahead. Big f-ing deal. It’s as if Soderbergh and Grey are both saying now that that’s out of the way, let’s say something interesting about the so-called “girlfriend experience.” (…read more, sfgate.com)

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  1. Good work on picking the picture at the top from the gallery. It’s an excellent, eye-catching pic. The elements are just right – I like very much how Sasha is between the aging brick wall and the new-looking hot tub.

    Well done, too, on choosing not to be on Howard Stern’s show.

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