Kevin Smith on getting Traci Lords for “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”.

From moviesonline.ca:

Q: How hard was it to get Traci Lords to do this?

A: Traci Lords was a real Hail Mary. We were just about to start shooting. We were about two or three weeks out and we still hadn’t cast that role. We had this book in our office, a look book of a bunch of classy photographs of porn actors and actresses and we went through the whole book. It was a coffee table book. One of those, Tassion makes them.

And when we went through the book, we were like “Wow, man. Katie Morgan is in it. Traci Lords isn’t in this book.” And then we started going “Traci Lords! Why don’t we get her to play Bubbles and do it as kind of like a cougar of sorts?” And then immediately we were like, “No, Traci refuses to have anything to do with anything remotely porn-related.” She keeps that part of her life at arm’s length now so it’s unlikely she’ll do it, but we were like “Let’s give it a shot.”

Seth was inspiring. Seth is the kind of guy that’s like… We needed somebody to play Bobby Long and he was like “He should be a real salt of the earth type.” I was like “Like Superman?” He was like, “Yeah, yeah, like Brandon Routh.” He’s going “Why don’t we just ask Brandon Routh if he can do it.” And I was like “Because that dude’s never going to do it.” And he was like, “Just ask. What can he do? Just say no.” And we asked him and he totally loved it and did it.

So following through on that, we were like, “Let’s ask Traci Lords.” And she came over to the house and read the script and she was like, “You know, I was all prepared to say no but this is funny and maybe it’s time. It’s 20 years since I’ve done an adult film and maybe I can do it and just make fun of it.” And I was like, “Yes, please do it and do it in this movie.”

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