Debbie does Chekhov?
This fall, the Fox Reality Channel will be airing a three-episode
series titled My Bare Lady, which will take four female porn stars out of their usual element and place them
on the London theater stage, where they will perform "legitimate" theater. The ladies will have only a short
time to get their acting chops together for the performance in London's West End, where an audience will decide if they
have what it takes.
Now, this seems interesting and all, but also just a tad condescending. The implication seems to be that porn is easy and real acting is difficult. In the interest of fairness, I think the "real" actors who train these women should themselves have to act in a porn movie. Memorizing your lines is one thing, maintaining an expression of eternal ecstasy while coated in honey and hanging upside down from a set of indoor monkey bars is something else entirely. And I speak from experience.
[via Chroma]

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