Actors treated porn cameos as usable legit footage

Evidence

In a dramatic scene of his biggest budget, Wild Goose Chase, shot on 16mm film, I played a bereft immigrant mom looking for my lost daughter. My performance was so good that I decided to use it on my legit acting reel, thinking I could pass it off as an episode of Law and Order. On camera I’m crying and pleading with a private detective to search for my missing daughter. My scene partner, the private dick, was Joey Silvera, a well-known porn stud. I figured, what the hell, if some casting director did recognize the X-rated star they would have been into porn and would get a kick out of my cameo. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 246

Categorization

• XREF: Directly pays off chapter 5’s claim that parody work is routinely mistaken for sincere commitment — here the actress deliberately exploits that confusion in reverse.