Everyone’s favorite Möbius strip showbiz satire, HBO’s Entourage, just picked up some more ballast to help it spin its wheels this season in the form of porn star Sasha Grey, who’s been tapped to play this year’s girl who drops in and briefly causes consternation for star Adrian Grenier before being forgotten completely. Grey will play herself—in other words, an attractive and reasonably intelligent but oddly emotionless porn star—and will become Vince’s “long-term girlfriend,” no doubt causing various publicity nightmares and inspiring several jokes about how everyone has already seen her in various forms of degradation, until Vince and Sasha finally go their separate ways and everything is resolved with the ritual ablution of light beers.
Creator Doug Ellin has said that the decision to cast Grey—who singles out her performance in Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience as to why he took notice of her—is part of a storyline inspired by Charlie Sheen’s similar relationship with porn star Ginger Lynn in the ’90s, though we’re guessing it won’t also include a scene where Sasha Grey calls Vince on his birthday and he tells her he can’t talk because he’s entertaining “a dozen hookers and an entire baseball team.” Although, you know, we’d definitely watch that.