my bare lady

The title of this post is also a pithy description of my upcoming autobiography -- thank you, you've been a lovely audience!

House band: Ba da bop ba dop bop!

Anyway, the clip after the jump is a scene from My Bare Lady, Fox Reality Channel's series about a bunch of female porn stars trying out for a role in Romeo and Juliet on the London stage. The clip features the women faking orgasms as part of their audition, I assume for the famous "fake orgasm" scene in Romeo and Juliet: "Thou art causing me to climax!"

As I said before, I find it a little condescending that this series implies porn actors aren't real actors. I say they are real actors, just different kinds of actors. It's not so easy to be in the moment and maintain that element of fantasy when a roomful of people are watching you do it. I should know, it's why I'm no longer allowed in the library.

The video is probably NSFW, so click ahead with caution.

[via Digg]

I vaguely recall that a porn star ran for governor of California, but I never paid much attention because I figured there wasn't much chance of anyone with the word "porn" attached to their name ever being elected for public office. However, Mary Carey, the adult film vixen in question, is still sticking around, and may take another stab at this whole governor thing. Or she'll star in the new reality series called My Bare Lady, where porn stars get a chance to do legitimate theater on the London stage, she hasn't really made up her mind yet. It seems her attorney is one of the producers for the new reality series, and she was on Countdown recently to discuss her aspirations with Keith Olbermann. Now, usually I'm not that interested in adult film stars outside of their primary roles, but this was one of the most surreal exchanges I've ever seen on any news analysis show. It was like getting a glimpse at the not-to-distant future when porn stars have taken over public office and use their sexual prowess to flirt their way out of scandals while plotting to take over the world. Is it merely some vapid blonde batting pleasantries back and forth with a "serious" news anchor, or evidence of what our government may soon become? I'll let you figure that out.

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]