Stephen Dorff Was Born to Do Porn

Stephen Dorff has signed on to be in Sony Picture’s new movie Born to Be A Star which puts him right in the middle of the porn industry.  I haven’t seen Dorff in anything noteworthy recently so I guess he’s heading to adult films like all struggling actors (kidding!).

In the movie, which was co-written by Adam Sandler (he’s also the producer), Dorff will play “Dick Shadow,” a legendary porn star.  I’m not sure where he fits into the storyline which is about a small-town Midwestern nerd (played by the script’s co-writer, Nick Swardson) who discovers his parents were famous porn stars. I’m guessing the revelation inspires the nerd because IMDb says the movie is about “A kid from the Midwest moves out to Hollywood in order to follow in his parents footsteps — and become a porn star.”  Christina Ricci will play Swardson’s girlfriend.

Filming is expected to begin next week.

Can I just take a minute to talk about the fact that this is yet another mainstream movie about people wanting to get into the porn industry?  With films like this one and Zack and Miri Make a Porno and The Girl Next Door, is porn becoming less taboo and more acceptable?

Whatever the case, hopefully, this will be a nice way for Dorff (and Ricci) to ease back into the spotlight.  The last thing that I saw him in that I actually enjoyed (except for the episode of Punk’d where he made himself look like a total jerk) was Blade.

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