Michael Lucas Wins Cameo On ABC's Ugly Betty, Will Force American Families To Watch Primetime Porn
This fall, porn mogul Michael Lucas will work with his ugliest model yet... Ugly Betty. While attending a Stonewall Foundation Dinner at the UN, Lucas saw Oscar-winning barebacker Dustin Lance Black deliver a speech about gay folk's complacency in the fight for civil rights. Afterwards, the bidding war began for a walk on role in the ABC family show, Ugly Betty. Lucas ended up winning when his boyfriend helped him nudge the final bid up to $18,000.
Lucas says he wanted to donate the money anyway, but that he also had an ulterior motive:
"I also saw a chance to shake up television a bit: the first porn star cameo ever on a family program. Let's not confuse gay-friendly networks with porn-friendly networks. The main channels are extremely pornophobic. The question posed to my industry is always the same: Will the porn industry and its members ever be accepted by the mainstream? And the usual answer is: not in the next fifty years. Porn stars are very much in demand but the media still like to see us kept in our box. So I saw an opportunity here to speed up the progression."
For anyone who doesn't know, Ugly Betty is a show about a plain looking girl trying to make it at an NYC fashion mag. But as you know, Lucas probably has little interest in helping ugly straight women, and is more likely shrewd enough to either get invited back as a recurring character (maybe a fashion villain like Mugatu) or somehow hijack the family show into a subplot involving forced blowjobs. Sounds good to us, but what's it to Lucas?
"How will ABC deal with a porn star on one of its prime time programs? I am curious to see how this will play out. Now, I am not suggesting that my little walk-on will change the world. But I hope it will be one step taking us out of the privacy of people's bedrooms and onto a larger stage. And I hope the American public will enjoy seeing a porn star as a real person, not just as a hot body."
We're betting that most of the Midwestern viewers aged 35 and above won't know he's a "porn star." A good percentage of them will probably think his accent and bad English are part of a comedic Russian caricature, like Boris and Natasha. We're actually hoping the cameo happens in his usual dramatic style, but Lucas told XBIZ that he expects to learn within a few days whether his erotic career will prevent him from appearing on the show at all.
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Holy shit, this guy is ridiculous. He talks about being a porn star like he's Martin Luther King, Jr. Get a grip.
A walk-on role means you get to be an extra, with no lines. If they're smart, they'll recognize his fame or notoriety and make him a "featured extra," prominently situated in some group or tableau somewhere, or even expand his walk-on role into an actual cameo with a line or two. But they don't auction off speaking roles, and "walk-on role" always means "extra" role.
I hope that ABC does something to make fun of him. Like have him push the bagel cart that Betty buys from or something else unimportant.
silly silly man - does he not know that being just 'a fantasy' is (almost) the main requiremnt of being a porn star - . . . and what's with your age demagraphic thing? anyone who's straight [of any age, in most locations] wont know who he is [thats like assuming that gay men know who the Playrabbits are - or whatever those bitches are called] . . . but i'm guessing he's reaching a point where he's feeling 'too old' to be doing porn and is trying [like many others] to break back thru the mainstream after so many years in the porn party wilderness . . . maybe if he's used his brain instead of his cock to make a living [no judgment - its another thing gay men like ifrom thier porn stars - a cock]
Michael Lucas in Ugly Betty! :) Wow... it will interesting.
he does anything for attention huh? these "walk on roles" usually involve a 2 second shot of someone walking in the background of a crowded lunch room or the back of someone's head at a photocopier. no need to worry how ABC will "handle it"...
i think it's great that he raised $18k that will go to a great cause. The motive is not important- that money will spend the same. For all the negative commenting on here, let me ask each of you, how much money have you raised and donated to help out our community? Thank you Lucas for your support!