If we’re equally honest, Sonny Landham is probably the most successful cross-over from porn to mainstream entertainment. And, maybe the real truth is that he was never much of a porn actor during the golden age – not like Paul Thomas, Richard Bolla, Joey Silvera, Jaime Gillis, John Leslie, and others who appeared in film after film. But he had longevity in mainstream – he may have had predictable roles, but, he had his fair share and he broke into bigger action movies, with appearances in films like 48 hours.

Girls get all the attention, but there is not female porn star who crossed over and had longevity. Marilyn Chambers ended up dying alone in a trailer; Jenna had a best selling book, a Times Square billboard, and celebrity appearances on MTV – and not all that long ago, she was spreading her legs on a web cam. Tera had a brief run when Spider did that reality rock band show, but she’s no longer relevant. Ginger had her shot with Charlie Sheen and faded. And Sasha Grey had a run, but really hasn’t done much beyond her 6 episodes on entourage. If you can’t capitalize on a Stephen Soderbergh film, you’re probably just going to muddle along.

Porn is porn, and when so many of today’s porn stars are tatted and pierced up the wazoo, they’re automatically limiting their opportunities to be anything other than freak roles in mainstream.

Sunny Leone!

Seems a bit ironic that it’s easier to find successful hardcore porn crossovers to Bollywood than Hollywood.

Napier,like Stallone never did hardcore so to say he was in porn is a bit of a stretch