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Shooting Star
Actress Cameron Richardson tells us about sleazebag producers, drunken cartwheels, and how much fun she had getting dirty on the recently cancelled Fox TV show Skin. Damn those TV execs!
By Clark Collis
“You see celebrities so much out here,” remarks Cameron Richardson, attacking a tandoori chicken salad with very unactressy enthusiasm at L.A.’s Sunset Marquis Hotel. “But it’s cool, because it makes you realize they’re just like us. You know, everyone poos. I always used to think about Madonna going to the bathroom, to make her seem like she’s human. Is that weird?”
Well, yes. But what worries us most about the Louisiana-born, New Jersey–raised Richardson is not her restroom-related Material Girl fantasies. What worries us is that, thanks to having been cast primarily in straight-to-video films and almost immediately canceled TV shows, this talented, beautiful, and very funny model-turned-actress has yet to achieve that same major celeb status for herself. But that may be about to change, thanks to such projects as The Outsiders-ish indie flick Good Humor Man (“I play a good girl who’s in love with a bad boy: I get devirginized”) and her high-profile part in the porn-industry-set Fox show Skin.
“There’s a lot of skin in Skin—mostly mine,” says the 24-year-old former model, laughing. “I play a porno star. It’s supposed to be like a Jenna Jameson or Traci Lords type of story. She starts off really nice and sweet, and then she ends up turning into this raging porno diva.
“Obviously, they typecast me,” she adds with a laugh.
When you signed on for Skin, did they mention that it would involve a lot of nudity?
Yeah, but I’m cool with that. I did modeling before, so it’s not that big a deal. I’m cool with my body and stuff. I have a very European way of thinking. But it’s different when you’re on set.
We’ve always had this vision of a bunch of grips standing around eating sandwiches and ogling the proceedings.
It’s definitely not the most comfortable thing. There’s one scene, maybe in the
second episode, where it’s my character’s first porno and the guy is directing her, telling her what to do. So I walk in, and I’m wearing this nurse’s outfit because it’s Genital Hospital—ha-ha-ha!—and he says, “Now take your dress off.” And I’m pretty much naked in front of all these crew people: I had a bandage, basically, on my crotch. I just said, Fuck it, let’s do it.
Did you have to watch any porn as research?
Only if I wanted to. [Laughs]
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