Sacramento native, now Los Angeles-resident Chelsea Wolfe’s new Kenneth Anger-inspired video for “Mer,” a gloomy bruiser off her latest full length ?ποκ?λυψις, features a pretty random Sacramento connection: a cameo by former adult film actress and Steven Soderbergh muse Sasha Grey, who grew up locally, in North Highlands a Sasha Grey lookalike, who is really Cate McDougall, a former Northern California actress now living in Los Angeles (rumors online swirled that it was in fact Grey in the video.
“Mer,” which blew up today on MTV, speaks to Wolfe’s newfound post-Satanic persona–which I totally dig. And Grey, who had a recurring role on Entourage and most recently appeared in an Eminem video, appears at the 2:58 mark. And this isn’t The first and only Grey-Wolfe collab: The singer contributed to a song, “Moses,” to a Grey commercial earlier this summer: