By the third episode of the Showtime reality series about the making of Deeper Throat, it’s a fairly foregone conclusion that Sasha Grey’s [pictured] going to get the lead part.

Paul Thomas continues to play Costello to Steve Hirsch’s Abbott, where it should be vice versa, and there’s a funny moment when Thomas brings what looks like a burrito into Hirsch’s house and Hirsch flips out.

Briana Banks is not at all happy that she isn’t considered for the lead role in the Deep Throat remake. And what Tera Patrick’s directorial debut has anything to do with any of this is a bafflement in the storyline.

Vivid’s auditions to find a new Linda Lovelace included over 25 girls. Thomas was pretty high on Sarah Vandella, but the brash east coast blonde from Episode Two stormed off the set when P.T. suggested she try doing a Great Garbo reading with her script. Meanwhile, Shailar Cobi, the production manager calls Sunny Lane, who also auditioned, a pig.

“And she gave a lousy reading,” P.T. adds.

“These girls are not knocking me out,” states Hirsch quite candidly as he’s watching the auditions on tape in his office. Hirsch who only wants to look at girls who can deep throat, feels his time is being wasted by the meeting.

“Steve is putting a lot of pressure on me to get a brand new script,” Thomas is saying to the camera.

Briana Banks shows up to do a scene. According to her, she’s been shooting with Vivid since 2001 and is noted for having the longest legs [36-inches] in the business.

“I’m one of the biggest names in porn,” Banks also says in a moment of obvious humility. But she’s unaware of the auditions. Banks in her scene is being choked, and this gives P.T. an “epiphany”. He’s immediately on the phone with Hirsch and suggests they now make remake Deep Throat as a murder mystery whereas before he tried incorporating it dismally with the Cinderella store.

“I think Ray’s [Ray Pistol] expecting a comedy not that I really care,” replies Hirsch who seems to be in agreement with Thomas as far as the choice of Sasha Grey. A meeting later in his office with Grey pretty much concludes the matter and makes it official.

“She has a dark, smoldering quality,” Thomas is agreeing. “She seems so anxious to walk on the edge.”

Grey, who’s never worked with Thomas, wants to be in bigger projects.
Jayda Fire, a black performer, also wants to audition when she learns of the project.

“If you can deep throat Voodoo you can go to the top of the list,” Thomas assures her.

“I can do this, P.T.” says Fire but Thomas insists she’ll hurt herself.
Voodoo gives her a thumbs-down.

“She couldn’t cut it,” he tells Thomas.

“Jayda’s not right but Sasha Grey could be just perfect,” says Thomas summing it up for the camera.

The remainder of the episode is fairly much occupied with the making of Where The Girls Aren’t 19 which Patrick is going to direct with an assist from Dave Navarro. Hirsch learns of these plans to incorporate Navarro when he has a meeting with Patrick and Evan Seinfeld at their house.

Actually, Hirsch is pretty much told by Patrick that she’s going to direct and his initial reaction is less than enthusiastic.

“I thought you were going to be in it,” he tells Patrick while Seinfeld’s making a pitch for Navarro to come on board. Patrick insists she’s more interested in directing.

“The question is can we get him [Navarro]? Hirsch asks. True to porn, the big build up of Navarro falls flat even though he tells Hirsch on the phone it sounds like an amazing idea.

“Let’s go for it,” is Hirsch’s reaction after the conversation. But Navarro arrives late on the set, and Banks rather than show up on the set, storms into Hirsch’s office when she learns through the grapevine of the Deeper Throat project.

“I’m going to Steven’s, fuck the all-girl orgy,” Banks mutters. She tells Hirsch she’s a little peeved and can’t understand why she wasn’t asked to be involved.

“I’ve only been with you guys for eight years,” she adds.

“I forgot how pretty you are,” Thomas says in a shallow attempt to assuage her.

“Too bad for Briana that we’re not considering Vivid contract girls for the lead,” Hirsch mutters the moment she steps out.

On the set of Where The Girls Aren’t 19, Patrick who’s informed she may have to go it alone is nervous and appears to be swallowing live fish. Seinfeld tells her she’s got to do what she’s got to do.

Ninety minutes late, Navarro makes a presumably token appearance because his story now is that he’s got “a family-thing” and can’t stay. Patrick suspects this might be a bullshit story, and the fact that there might be drama between him and Hanna Hilton is prompting it.

Hilton mentions they met a year or two earlier, that they exchanged numbers but nothing ever came of it. Navarro appears like he didn’t expect to run into Hilton.

“I’d love to be in a position of playing out my sick little twisted fantasies, but I gotta go,” says Navarro, scooting. Patrick’s of the opinion the orgy turned out hot, nonetheless.

At casa Hirsch, Hirsch informs his wife that people from the office are coming over. When she hears who it is, Laurie Hirsch says she has to draw the line that she’s not happy about this because it interrupts dinner which she’s got planned for the kids.

“I’m trying to make this movie,” Hirsch reminds her.

“Everything has to go your way doesn’t it?” she asks.

Hirsch isn’t happy with the script. He’s obviously not happy with P.T.’s burrito which he grabs out of Thomas’ hand. But he is thrilled with Sasha Grey who makes a grand entrance down the staircase like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.

And, yes, porn fans, Evan Stone actually dresses like that in public.