{"id":3347,"date":"2012-03-10T08:34:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T15:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/the-tom-cruise-of-porn\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T08:41:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:41:21","slug":"the-tom-cruise-of-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/10\/the-tom-cruise-of-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tom Cruise Of Porn"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

James Deen: The Tom Cruise of porn<\/h1>\n

Adored by young women for his clean-cut image, this male porn star has been named as the\u00a0likely lead actor\u00a0in Bret\u00a0Easton Ellis’s forthcoming film. But can an adult entertainer ever \u00a0make a successful transition to Hollywood?<\/em><\/p>\n

by Edward Helmore<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

Deen’s All-American appeal may aid a move to the mainstream. Photograph: Gideon Ponte<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this week,\u00a0Bret Easton Ellis<\/a>\u00a0announced his intention<\/a>\u00a0to cast a male porn star as the lead in\u00a0The Canyons<\/a>, a new film noir to be directed by Paul Schrader, the screenwriter of Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo.<\/p>\n

Ellis had long been an admirer of\u00a0James Deen, who is striking because of his unusual appeal to young women \u2013 not generally key consumers of porn. When the two men met in January, they bonded over being unlikely poster boys: “He ordered a salad and we chatted amiably about the unearned feminist hysteria we both received at certain points in our careers,” Ellis\u00a0tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Deen, 26, was recently featured on\u00a0ABC’s Nightline<\/a>\u00a0in a segment asking if the nation knows that its daughters increasingly view him as a consort in their romantic fantasies. That Nightline saw fit to give him air time \u2013 the show is a rough equivalent of Newsnight \u2013 was further evidence either that the mainstream is more ready to accept adult entertainment performers on its turf, or that adult entertainment is itself becoming more mainstream.<\/p>\n

“He’s exactly the guy I was thinking of,” says Ellis. “He’s accessible and represents the democratisation of our culture. He’s not some hot-blooded, super-tanned caveman pumping it \u2014 he’s a cute boy you could have gone to college with.”<\/p>\n

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from The Guardian James Deen: The Tom Cruise of porn Adored by young women for his clean-cut image, this male porn star has been named as the\u00a0likely lead actor\u00a0in Bret\u00a0Easton Ellis’s forthcoming film. But can an adult entertainer ever \u00a0make a successful transition to Hollywood? by Edward Helmore Deen’s All-American appeal may aid a move […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}