Californication actress says her ‘good girl’ looks and ‘kinky’ roles make for interesting tension

From her first appearance as Daisy, the angel-faced porn actress on Season 2 of Californication, Carla Gallo added some spunk and a heavy dose of potty humor to the show, more than holding her own with male co-stars David Duchovny and Evan Handler.

It’s not the only time the Ivy league educated actress has played a raunchy role. Gallo is one of the regular players in Judd Apatow’s merry troupe, working with him on the series Undeclared and later turning up as “Toe-Sucking Girl” in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, “Period Blood Girl” in Superbad, and “Gag Me Girl” in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She also played a stripper on the HBO series Carnivale.

“Here I am, having gone from stripper to porn—porn actress—and [my friends] are like ‘Why you?’…. I’m not that girl. I’m the girl next door, not the sex symbol,” Gallo said in a recent interview with the Harvard Crimson.

She went on to say her good-girl looks and wholesome on-screen personality set up an interesting tension between viewers’ expectations of her characters and the reality.

As for whether she’ll be back for Season 3, Gallo isn’t sure. She ended up with the guy in the Season 2 finale, but she says “I don’t know how long the pornstar who breaks up a marriage gets to stay in the picture. I’m not sure it will be a happily ever after.”

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