Enter the porn stars of Westeros. Sahara Knight, Masie Dee, Jessica Jensen and Samantha Bentley have all played (drumroll please) whores. But worry not, HBO isn’t merely typecasting sex workers. Sibel Kekilli, an ex-porn star and award-winning German actress, brilliantly portrays Tyrion Lannister's longtime lover, Shae who—OK, she happens to be a whore as well.
Must porn stars always be relegated to a portraying a sexual servant on the show? So far, Australian adult actress Aeryn Walker might be the only adult star on the show to not portray a sex worker.
“I got really anxious,” Walker, a huge fan of the series, tells me of the moment was cast as one of Craster’s wives. “I was like, ‘Man, I hope I do a good job,’ you know. What if people think I got this because I have nice tits? I can actually act.” The audition that won her the role wasn’t what you might expect. “I had to film a clip of my face, me crying,” she says. “They described in graphic detail exactly how I would cry, and I did.” It was that audition tape that won her the unusual porn star role of non-whore.
So why are porn stars such a perfect fit for the Seven Kingdoms? As a former adult actress myself I have a few theories.
1. A porn star is always willing to take off her clothes and there will never be a nudity clause in her contract.
2. They’ve put in their 10,000 hours and know how to fake passionate sex with the best of ’em.
3. It’s sad but true: porn stars work cheap! Since nude is their norm, they won’t ask to be paid extra to be naked.
4. In a way that mainstream actresses sometimes fail to capture, porn stars always look very comfortable sitting around nude for the duration of a scene.
5. With all of that skin-on-skin action, things, well, pop up. Porn stars aren’t squeamish about their fellow actors getting aroused. They tend to be very understanding.
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