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10 Hollywood Stars You Won't Believe Started In Porn
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2 days ago
Following on from the fallout of 'the fappening', we take a look at 10 of Hollywood's biggest stars that began their careers in porn!
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Today we're going to be taking a look at 10 of the biggest Hollywood names that you won't believe started in porn.
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Let's kick things off with a big dumb duh.
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Sasha Grey, probably one of the biggest porn stars of the last 10 years.
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Exactly, she's not a Hollywood star, she's a porn star, we hear you scream.
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Look, she's making waves in Hollywood and not everybody watches porn.
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Did you guys even see the girlfriend experience?
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She's doing really well on the indie circuit, having fun in B-movie land, and she was in entourage for God's sakes.
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That's a pretty hefty resume for just a porn star.
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Next up is schlockfest superstar Tracy Lourdes, known mainly for her roles in Blade, Zack and Miri, and Devil May Call.
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She's also got one hell of a B-movie filmography under her belt.
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Tracy started in porn early on before moving through softcore into low-budget feature flicks.
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Some say her boat sailed, but you should check out your name here and Crazy8 for absolute proof that it hasn't.
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Yeah, it's hard to believe, right?
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While the Terminator himself was a millionaire before he even started acting,
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during his bodybuilding days he had several nude photo sessions turn into multi-page spreads throughout a wealth of male pornographic magazines.
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It increased public awareness to his pursuits and it helped him pay the bills.
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Now look where he is.
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Not technically starting in porn, but following Batman, Adam West turned down the job of James Bond before becoming typecast.
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To get away from Batman, he had to start again from the bottom in film.
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And we mean from the very bottom.
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He took a few jobs on softcore adult films to keep a roof over his and his family's head.
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A good enough reason if there was ever a need for one.
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Look, by now pretty much everyone knows about Kakili.
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But she's living, breathing proof that starting in porn doesn't have to affect your dream career.
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She went from porn to film to Thrones, picking up countless awards and being noticed as one of the rising stars of world cinema along the way.
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If you can watch When We Leave and still think she's just a porn star turned actress, you need to reassess your life.
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Not a lot of people know about LeBlanc though.
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While not technically full blown porn, back in 1992 he starred in a show called The Red Shoe Diaries,
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which was a weekly erotic adult drama series.
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The show was pretty much just a half an hour of softcore porn, loosely framed by David Duchovny reading a letter.
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It was pretty warrantsy at the time and suffered classic porn cliches right down to the softness of lens used to shoot the damn thing.
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Back in 1980 Penthouse Magazine decided to go the whole way and produce a film with mass market appeal.
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The result was Caligula, a biopic on the power-hungry Roman Emperor.
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The film basically worked like that up until the point where Bob Guccione, the owner of Penthouse,
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took the edit away from the director, shot a mountain of hardcore porn and spliced it in.
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It also happened to be one of Helen Mirren's first starring roles on screen.
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And another one.
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Stallone starred in the softcore The Party at Kitty and Studs in 1970,
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but it wasn't until after the release of Rocky that the film became widely known,
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when it was renamed The Italian Stallion.
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There was some media backlash but nothing major,
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and Stallone once said it was either do that movie or rob someone,
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because he was at the very end of his rope.
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Robbery or porn? What would you choose?
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It's true. Cameron Diaz started out in porn, beginning as a regular model.
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She moved into porn modelling before rapidly jumping into film.
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She managed to cover up all but one part of her past, which shows her preparing backstage for a shoot.
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Further proof that starting out in the adult industry doesn't have to hurt your chances at making it in Hollywood.
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It's hard enough to believe that Jackie Chan is a pop sensation in his homeland,
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let alone that he starred in a couple of erotic adult dramas in 1975.
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On his experience, he drew similarities to Stallone and Brando.
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He needed the money.
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And if Brando could be the greatest actor in history and do something like Last Tango in Paris,
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then what he did in comparison was nothing.
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Are there any that we've missed? Let us know in the comments below,
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