Caitlin Stasey: Former Neighbours actor reveals she will direct pornographic films
Actor also starred in US TV series including Reign and Bridge and Tunnel
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Your support makes all the difference.Former Neighbours actor Caitlin Stasey has revealed she plans to direct a series of pornographic films.
The Australian actor, who also starred in the TV series Reign and Please Like Me, will make her directorial debut for Afterglow, a fledgling company ran by queer women.
“It’s a queer-run and operated company,” Stasey told Women’s Wear Daily. “It’s a very cool group of women making some very good stuff.”
Stasey, who played Rachel Kinski on the long-running Australian soap opera from 2005 until 2009, said that plans to direct pornography this month had fallen through.
“We were all set to make several films in February, but things have gotten really, really dicey out [in LA],” Stasey said. “And making a regular film during Covid-19 is tough – making a pornographic film during Covid-19? Virtually impossible.”
Stasey, who was formerly married to American actor Lucas Neff, said in 2015 that she identified as “mostly gay”.
“I know it troubles many people for me to refer to myself as a lesbian considering I have a male partner,” she told the site Herself, which she co-founded. “I think they gather that it trivialises the plight of the LGBTQIA community and although that couldn’t be further from the truth at this point in my life I’m trying to steer as far from labelling as possible.”
She added: “Compartmentalising myself only leads to condemnation and contradiction. I’m happier being fluid and I’m happier being honest.”
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Stasey last starred in the US series Bridge and Tunnel, about young people growing up in Long Island, New York.
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