Neighbours star made huge career change to make adult movies

17 September 2023 , 09:39

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Caitlin Stasey recently starred in the horror movie Smile (Image: WireImage)

A former Neighbours actress has lifted the lid on her new life directing adult films and confessed it "runs just like any other film set."

Caitlin Stasey – who portrayed regular character Rachel Kinski in the Australian soap – has a long list of TV credentials including starring as Francesca in 2003’s The Sleepover Club and Laura Weaver in the scary movie Smile last year. Stasey joined Neighbours in 2005 and became one of the show's youngest cast members. In 2008, Caitlin, now 33, shared she decided to quit her role so she could finish her exams, and said she was looking forward to being "a normal 18-year-old."

"I want to know that when I finish my exams and get my score, it is representative of my abilities, my exams start in November and I want to be able to give them my full concentration," she told the Herald Sun at the time.

The actress was 18 when she left Neighbours (Fremantle Media)

Caitlin Stasey has spoken out about her new porn career

In her last scenes, which aired in 2009, Rachel was seen heading off to study at a school in London on a scholarship. To give Caitlin the chance to return to Neighbours, the producers decided to not kill Rachel off. Many years on, the actress recently starred in the movie Smile. Alongside acting, the 33-year-old has revealed she tried her hand at directing erotic content under the female-owned porn company Afterglow.

Speaking on the I’ve Got News For You podcast, the star shared an insight into her "tough" new challenge and says the erotic scenes she ended up directing were "pretty intense" although it "runs just like any other film set."

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"As an actor, your job is to come in... You have control over such a small portion of this massive enterprise. And when you're the director, you are judge, jury and executioner", she said. "It's as if they're written by an algorithm on another planet. But they're always so sexy and it always feels like sex is about to happen – everyone's sniffing each other's necks and licking each other's wrists.

"So I kind of came up with the concept of a perfume commercial that then becomes a lesbian threesome." Sharing details about her latest film project, she added: "The sets tend to be really inclusive. There's a lot of women," she added, before revealing that - in pornography - there's actually way more female directors than "there are in mainstream film and television."

Ayaan Ali