New series "Strut" normalizes sex work with a group of friends who start an escorting agency
When award-winning creator Misha Calvert first showed her new series, "Strut," at the Tribeca Film Festival Creators Market in 2018, she offered some choice words on the show's daring subject matter. "Hollywood has long used the archetype of the prostitute to heighten storytelling, be it as a seductress, a villain, seedy set decoration, or another dead body," she said. "The reality of sex workers is so much more complex."
Calvert came up with the idea for "Strut," her new show on the LGBTQ streaming network Revry, during post-production of "Textual Intercourse," a show Calvert created, which she described to Salon as an exploration of "dating in this time, and the intersection of technology and intimacy, the transactionalism of dating."
