Porn Valley- Jewel De' Nyle was on Selena Silver's show on KSEX, www.ksexradio.com at the outbreak of the HIV crisis and had a few sharp observations to make http://adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=3305 at that time.
Here's the remainder of De'Nyle's interview which included Kylie Ireland. De'Nyle, besides commenting that the industry didn't need the government wiping our collective ass for us, announced that Ireland had come aboard to direct for Platinum X and that it would be effective June 1st.
Selena Silver, www.selenasilver.com asked De'Nyle, who's always good for a sound bite, if being a female directing gave her an advantage.
"I think it does," said De'Nyle. "Then they can say this is not just a male-dominant industry and the male's are calling the shots and making these women do these horrible, awful things. I'm like, excuse me. I'm a woman director. I'm a woman activist for this industry alone. And it's not the men that are the ones causing this. There are some women who actually enjoy doing these 'horrible-awful' things."
De'Nyle said if she does something, it's because she wants to do it.
"Yes there are directors that will try to get girls to push the limits and do things they're not ready to do," De'Nyle concedes. "Yeah, okay. They do that. I'm not going to lie about that. But me being a female director; me being a female in the industry, I've been there. I've done that. It's ridiculous at this point for them [the government] to even come in and step in and be 'such a male-dominated business and this and this and that.' Don't speak for me. I'll speak for myself, thank you."
Ireland said it's often forgotten that women have all the control in the business. "People say that there's all these guys pushing women around. Well the women are the ones who have the last say. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. Without that, there's no movie."
De'Nyle was asked if she was a wild, crazy girl growing up. "I was just myself and I was always outspoken," she answered. "I didn't feel like I was in a man's world. I felt like I was in a world I'm in control of. Nobody controls me. Nobody tells me what to do. I've always been a free spirit and did what I wanted to do. The harder they tried to knock me down, the harder I tried to be the best. Ultimately my company right now is one of the top businesses in this industry because I will not take no for an answer and I will not fail. It's that simple."
De'Nyle described herself as being very driven. "I believe in what I do," she said. "I believe in the women that I support in this industry because life is not over after you're done laying on your back. There is more to this industry than just spreading your legs."
Asked why she's in porn, De'Nyle said she loves it and wouldn't change it for the world.
"People are, like, you could have done so many other things- you're so smart, you're so brilliant, you're so driven- I'm, like, why wouldn't I want to do this? Why do you feel like I should be doing anything else. I feel I'm right for the market. I'm a good spokesperson for the industry. I'm levelheaded and I help women out in this business any time they need questions answered that maybe they can't go to a male figure in this industry. But they can trust me because I've been in their shoes and I give them straight answers. And I feel like I'm almost the mother hen of all up and coming talent and a role model. And I like being that role model and I'm glad to be it."
Ireland chimed in saying newcomers in the business need someone to talk to. "They don't do it that much anymore. When I came in I had girls that I would ask questions and say how does this work, what should I do, how do you do this. The girls these days they, honestly, never ask questions. They leave it up to the agents."
De'Nyle added: "Thank God we do have some good agents that have come along and take the girls to their sets and explain the business to them so it's not a big shock thing for them when they get there. Everybody pretty much knows what they're getting themselves into."
De'Nyle was then asked if she planned her career from the beginning or did it unfold as she went along.
De'Nyle said her game plan from Day One was that she was going to be the best. "I was going to own my own company and I was going to be a proven star and a force to be dealt with." De'Nyle said she was sick of taking orders from men who sit behind a desk and don't do her job.
"They do not know what I go through on a daily basis. And I'm tired of them expecting me to do the unexpected, constantly pushing my buttons, pushing me forward when they are not in my shoes and they do not have an understanding of where I'm coming from."
According to De'Nyle, she runs Platinum as though the people there are family. "They treat the girls good. Everything that's told to them is told upfront. Nothing is a surprise to them and that's the formula we have.
"We walk everybody through exactly what they're going to do," she continued. "We check everybody's test right there on set. That's a mandatory rule. Paperwork is done right then and there before they even start the scene. Just simple rules that are not hard to follow. And that's what's really made us really respected in the industry, because we have talent that cares about talent. Because we've all been there."
Ireland said that's why she's glad to be a part of De'Nyle's company. "She's a no bullshit kind of chick."
Kent Silver described Platinum as the new girl-friendly kind of company. "If a new girl's going to come into the business I'd say, absolutely, go work for them right away. It's professional."
Ireland was asked what the practice regime for a new director was like.
"I would hope that being in the business for ten years would lend a little bit of experience on what I might be able to do here." Ireland's also picking up tips from others. "It's all pretty basic- it's all stuff I really knew." Ireland said she wants her product to be uniquely hers. "I don't want my stuff to look like some other director. I don't want it to be boring. I want it to be involved in every aspect, and I want to have ideas that go into this."
De'Nyle said her influences were Serenity and Jenna Jameson. "Serenity because she opened up her toy line; she retired and she's doing that. And she had all of us girls under contract with her company and she's running it as a businesswoman. And Jenna, because she took hold of her career and just bit the bullet and did it when all the odds were against her. Because they were trying everything they could to rip her career down when she left Wicked. They were pulling no punches when it came to that."
De'Nyle said she has no role models when it comes to directing.
"I took bits and pieces of the work I had done in scenes and thought I can do this better and put my own feel to it, my own vision to it and kind of rolled with it."
Ireland says De'Nyle is very organized. Describing her own product, De'Nyle said it was hardcore but not over the edge to where a woman couldn't enjoy it. "But it's hard enough for a jack off artist to enjoy it but it's not crazy to where you couldn't sit there and watch it and a girl's going to get offended. She'll dig it too."
Ireland's definition of perfect porn is everyone showing up for the shoot. "I'm not expecting miracles," she said. "I'm just expecting cooperation. I think there's enough responsible people out there where you can get a good crew, a good team, good people work with; people who are going to be interested in the project; people who are going to show up and enjoy their work. They're out there. You just have to know where to find them and how to cast them." Ireland's of the belief that female talent would readily gravitate to a porn company run by a woman.
"They're going to have the freedom to say what they want and do what they want and be as nasty as they want."
