Stormy Daniels’s first heterosexual adult scene was with director Brad Armstrong, whom she had already slept with. “I stayed at his house and we dated for a year and a half,” Daniels told Vlad TV. In her memoir, she recalled how Armstrong didn’t believe her when she first told him that she could write a script for a movie, but when she proved him wrong, he purchased it for $700. In 2004, she began directing her own adult films as well.
Daniels had appeared in dozens of X-rated movies, and her experience helped her land a role in the 2005 Judd Apatow comedy, “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” Another adult film director informed Daniels the movie was holding auditions for “a stripper type,” and after Daniels scored the role, she became fast friends with producer Shauna Robertson. Seth Rogen also appeared in the film, and one way Daniels proved herself worthy of joining Apatow’s close-knit creative family was by agreeing to help Robertson prank the actor.
Daniels was tasked with acting like a crazed “Freaks and Geeks” fan, and she even had a fake Rogen tattoo drawn on one of her breasts. She remembered Robertson instructing her, “When you make him really uncomfortable, we want you to whip out your boob and ask, ‘Do you like my tattoo?'” Footage of the interaction made the movie’s DVD extras, and Daniels earned small roles in other Apatow projects. The comedic director even produced the 2024 “Stormy” documentary.
