By: Creaking Door
- 30th June 2012 at 22:59Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Saw this documentary not long ago. I got the impression that it doesn't necessarily pay much these days. One director (?) would urge his actors to have another/better source of income besides porn.
Not quite the picture the BBC article is painting.....hence my problem with it!
By: Primate
- 30th June 2012 at 23:52Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Not quite the picture the BBC article is painting.....hence my problem with it!
I guess he was mostly referring to younger entrants with potentially unrealistic hopes. Not many do it well enough to really make a living, as I understand it.
By: Primate
- 1st July 2012 at 18:45Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Theroux also interviewed a woman who worked with administration, HR or something like that. I think she was responsible for receiving new girls, among other things. Theroux asked her if she used to inform/warn the girls about potentially negative future consequences of their choice, the low probability of success etc. She replied that the company would probably have run into recruitment problems if she had done so. Or something along those lines, depending on my memory.
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By: TonyT - 30th June 2012 at 21:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
They never did pay the actors much, the actresses got more, they worked in the principal that most of the men would have done it for free...
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By: Creaking Door - 30th June 2012 at 22:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
You seem.....er.....very well informed. :o Would we have seen you in anything? :diablo:
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By: Creaking Door - 30th June 2012 at 22:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Not quite the picture the BBC article is painting.....hence my problem with it!
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By: TonyT - 30th June 2012 at 23:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Funny you should say that Creaking.... Remember John Holmes with the enormous thingy........ Well that wasn't me :o
Was a prog on about the making of them a while back.
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By: Primate - 30th June 2012 at 23:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I guess he was mostly referring to younger entrants with potentially unrealistic hopes. Not many do it well enough to really make a living, as I understand it.
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By: Creaking Door - 30th June 2012 at 23:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I meant I had a problem with the BBC ‘Newsbeat’ article from my original post; in my opinion it certainly does promote unrealistic hopes to the young.
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By: Primate - 1st July 2012 at 18:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Theroux also interviewed a woman who worked with administration, HR or something like that. I think she was responsible for receiving new girls, among other things. Theroux asked her if she used to inform/warn the girls about potentially negative future consequences of their choice, the low probability of success etc. She replied that the company would probably have run into recruitment problems if she had done so. Or something along those lines, depending on my memory.