LOS ANGELES, CA — Minor roles, sensational coverage, and Jenna Jameson’s zombie stripper aside, adult performers have not had the best luck moving through the semipermiable membrane separating mainstream film from its more honestly sexual industry counterpart. Meanwhile, the mainstream has cast its starlets and stars as strippers, porn stars, and other representatives of the industry that dare not apply for SAG status – and now, popular Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher is thinking he might like to become an actual porn stud. Whether Kutcher, a one-time biochemical engineering student who has appeared in non-erotic films including Dude, Where’s My Car? and The Butterfly Effect, as well as 183 episodes of That 70’s Show has what it takes to pop and maintain wood in front of a camera and camera crew is, of course, an important unknown.
What is known, however, is that the 30-year-old star was inspired by the efforts of the now softcore zombie queen – and his performance in Spread, a sex comedy which he insists is so close to real porn that he wants to know what the real thing feels like.
Working under the assumption that he can have his hair pie and Hollywood respectability at the same time, Kutcher told MTV.com that he’s convinced that if Jameson can create a multi-million dollar empire within porn, then it’s clearly a career to be taken seriously.
“I made a sort of, like, a porn-pseudo-comedy movie,” he explained to the site, “So, maybe I’ll do some more porno. It worked for Jenna Jameson. I was actually in London last week and they knew who Ron Jeremy was. He’s a famous porn star in London, as well.”
Although Kutcher has the looks for porn, his woeful lack of knowledge about its history and culture may prove at least initially problematic to the sexy, if naïve, performer, who admitted to MTV.com that “I didn’t realize that porn stars were famous in other countries. I thought London had their own. Apparently they don’t. I think we have, as a country, kind of a corner on the market – so I was thinking about venturing that way a bit further.”
First, of course, Kutcher needs to venture to the Adult Industry Medicine office, since there’s no telling where mainstream performers put their genitals when they’re not making “porn-pseudo-comedy movies.”
