Porn performers diverged sharply over whether to pursue legitimate acting careers

Evidence

On my first request to read lines with her she said, “Later, there’s plenty of time.” So I went on to another task. A half hour later, I returned to ask again, and once more was put off by the diva. When I told John she was not cooperating, he asked me to try again since her scene was coming up soon. Many porn stars like Tracy Lords and Ginger Lynn aspired to cross over to legit films, so I was surprised by her reaction. When I approached for the third time and suggested we read lines together, she jumped out of the makeup chair and threw one hand on her hip. Snapping her fingers and bobbing her head side to side, she shouted back at me, “Girl, get it straight, I am not an actress, I am a fucktress and proud of it!” I threw up my hands, left the makeup room, and knew that one day I would use that line in a story. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 245

Categorization

• CANDY: The “I am a fucktress and proud of it” retort is a genuinely funny, tweetable anecdote — self-declared identity categories in a niche industry.
• XREF: Relates to the broader porn-to-mainstream crossover discourse (Tracy Lords, Ginger Lynn) and identity-work sociology of stigmatized labor. — connects to: Some porn performers proudly reject the aspiration to legitimate acting — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 245

Related

• Some porn performers proudly reject the aspiration to legitimate acting (similarity 0.94)

Broader Connections

• Some porn performers proudly reject the aspiration to legitimate acting #exemplifies (0.90) — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 245