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from www.examiner.com – This edition [of interviews from Exxxotica NJ] features Sunny Leone, Riley Steele, Courtney Cummz, and Jules Jordan, and focuses on branching out with mainstream projects, the importance of safety for performers, and the future of adult product distribution.
Sunny Leone
Q: To you, what’s the best part of porn as a performance art?
I guess it’s being able to do what you want, you know? I own my own production company, so I get to be as creative and sexy, and I can make it as beautiful, as I want. I can make it as high-end or make it look really amateur. So the ability to have control over what I want and how I want to do it is awesome (laughs).
Q: As a journalist, I have to ask this question. [Comedian] Russell Peters has a skit about dating someone from your industry. Was he talking about you?
Probably…I don’t think I ever had any shoots when we were dating for a little bit, so he probably just put that together with his head (laughs).
Q: He’s a funny guy.
He’s so funny; makes me roll on the floor laughing (laughs). Nice guy.
Q: He has a part in the movie Source Code with Jake Gyllenhaal.
Oh, nice.
Q: Are you going to be doing any mainstream work in the future?
I have this movie [hands me a DVD package of The Virginity Hit], which was produced by Will Ferrell.
Q: What do you play in this film?
I play the girl that they’re trying to have sex with.
Q: And lots of laughs ensue.
Yeah. The kids in this movie are so funny and so sweet, and to be able to be in the movie—I had no idea that I was in as much of the movie as it is. I got there and all of a sudden, five minutes into the movie they start saying my name, and I’m going, “Oh my God, they just said my name on that big screen!” and then five minutes later, my boobs are (laughs) on the screen. So it was really cool, kind of embarrassing—because it’s all these mainstream people in the audience, my friends—and we’re staring at this screen and my boobs are gigantic (laughs).
Riley Steele
Q: How are you today, Riley?
I’m good, how are you?
Q: Better, now that I’m talking to you.
My boobs are paying attention to you.
Q:(To my cameraman) You might want to get some stills of this.
(Laughs)
Q: Your name is very unique. Can you give us the story of how you came up with it?
Well, honestly, I was (laughs)—it was just something I knew. I had to do some extra work to get out of some trouble I got myself in, so I just thought it was interesting. I’d never heard of anyone named Riley, and I always liked names that girls had, like Mason—you know, boy names that could be girl names, like Jesse—so I was like, “I want to do Riley, I’ll love that.”
Q: What things since you’ve started in this business as a performance artist have you learned that you’ve found are useful not just on-camera, but off-camera, too?
Off-camera, I guess just always remember that there is someone watching or the way people perceive things. On-camera, I’ve learned to, one, watch your light (laughs). Because they are walking in your light and if they’re walking in your light, move out of it (laughs). And just learning your reaction skills.
Q: What else do you want to do outside of film and video?
I’m launching my website right now. I’m interested in doing lots of things from photography to directing my own movies, to designing, modeling, bikinis, all that kind of stuff.
Q: Working on Piranha 3D, how was that experience different from other things that you’ve done? Was it fun being on the set of a big budget motion picture, working with guys like Jerry O’Connell?
Oh, God. He is so funny. Him and Paul Scheer together are just a crack-up. I had so much fun shooting that movie; I was paid to party on a boat for three months in Arizona with Kelly Brook and stick my face in her boobs. Okay!
Q: What are your thoughts about those being rendered in 3D?
That was [expletive] cool, yeah! It sucks how I died, though.
Q: At least you didn’t have your boobs floating to the bottom of the sea.
I know, they went up! (laughs)
Q: Jerry O’Connell is a real ladies man. Was he really active on the set with that, or has he calmed down?
He was with [his wife] Rebecca Romjin at the time and they had just had their babies. So they were together and he was having a hard time not seeing them. We all went back to L.A.—we all kind of became a family doing that; we had breakfast, lunch and dinner with these people, you know? Living with them, pretty much. So when we all would go back to L.A.—we went back one time—we drove there and drove back together and it was fun.
Courtney Cummz
Q: What is it about sex that excites you the most when you’re in a really intimate scene with someone?
[A particular sex act] really gets me off. Having new sex partners, so if I’m working with a new guy, it just really gets me off because I’ve never been with them before; I don’t know what to expect. Chemistry is very important, l need to have chemistry. I like to kiss. Just having fun and trying new things.
Q: What’s your favorite thing about sex as a performing art itself?
Just the passion, the chemistry. If there’s chemistry, there’s passion. So you need those two, I think, to have good art.
Q: Is there concern in the industry over preventing disease, not just AIDS? Does getting tested regularly and doing what you’re supposed to do on camera keep you from having any problems?
[Expletive] happens, but you’ve gotta hope and pray that your partner is being safe. Because in the industry, most of the people [expletive] each other. But once they start [expletive] outside the industry, [those] people rarely get tested. So if you’re out there and you’re having unprotected sex, I suggest you get tested. Not only for the safety of yourself, but others.
Q: Do most of the girls use birth control?
I use birth control. A lot of girls use birth control. But I also don’t do [another particular sex act] anymore. Because I’ve done [yet another particular sex act] in the past and my doctor said it’s not healthy for me, so I stopped doing it (laughs).
Jules Jordan
Q: You’ve been involved with these conventions for a while. What are the tricks you’ve learned for getting more clients, getting the product out there, and promotion?
It’s more of a promotional thing being at the shows and whatnot. You know, it’s a rare chance when you can get the fans to meet the girls, [and] we like to give that opportunity while we’re promoting our brand. With the Internet and stuff today, it’s real easy to get recognized out there if you’re out in the public promoting your brand.
Q: How do you feel about your role as being the single-camera, run and gun kind of guy who’s taken porn to the next level?
I always thought that you shouldn’t have a huge crew when you’re shooting porn. I think it takes away the intimacy of what’s going on, you know? It relaxes performers more, and literally there’s a lot of shoots that I’m doing these days where it’s just me and talent. I’ll set up the lights, shoot the stills, shoot the video and everything; I like to have complete control over it, and with the cameras today, there’s a lot of stuff you can do on camera today that you were never able to do, to make the production values topnotch. I never liked to have a bunch of lights and all that stuff. I like natural light; it allows freedom to move all around the performers.
Q: Those “porn houses” are always incredible. How do you scout the locations?
What I look for first in a location is the lighting, and how it’s going to look with or without lights. So I actually shoot it in a couple of my own houses, so I know the exact conditions I’m going to get when I’m shooting. But otherwise, there’s agents out there. I try to use locations that I’ve used in the past, because I know the lighting of the house and I can conceptualize what I’m going to do, because I know the houses pretty well.
Q: If you could have an unlimited budget and access for your next film, what’s on your wish list?
There’s always new people coming and whatnot. I always like to shoot girls doing something interesting that they haven’t done before, and I’ve been known to pay a little more to get some stuff, you know? When I shoot a movie, I don’t really look at the budget [and say], “I can only spend this much”; I kind of spend what I spend, and when the movie seems to come together, that’s when I put it out as a movie.
Q: How does it feel to know that you’re the guy that a lot of girls are comfortable doing these things with?
I don’t think too hard about it, but I’m glad they’re willing to share that experience with me, for sure.
Q: Is there any initial concern regarding health problems? How do you deal with any issues that they might have?
I never have had issues with that; either a girl’s comfortable with it or not, and I’ve never heard of any health issue that arose from [a particular sex act].
Q: So it’s all based on the performer’s choice, whether they want to do these things?
Yeah, sure. We certainly don’t force anyone to do anything they don’t want to do.
Q: When you’re drawing up a contract with them, do you tell them ahead of time?
Usually I know what I’m getting into with a girl, and I know she’s going to be comfortable doing the things I want to do. That’s why I hire her.
Q: Do the girls use birth control?
I assume almost every girl’s on birth control, but some are, some aren’t. It’s not really something that’s discussed beforehand.
Q: What’s your next goal as a filmmaker?
I’m still transitioning on to the Web more and more with all HD stuff, because unfortunately the DVD market—you can’t put out Blu-ray DVDs these days; they just don’t sell, you know? We sell for a premium price. So we’re really just trying to get all the HD stuff on the Internet as fast as possible to give the consumers the production quality that this stuff is shot in.
Q: Do you have any plans to come back again to the East Coast to shoot?
Anytime I come to the East Coast I try to shoot out there. I started shooting on the East Coast, but anytime I travel I try to work in a shoot here and there. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Q: Is there anyone else past or present in the industry that you haven’t worked with yet that you’d really like to?
Um (pauses). That I haven’t worked with? You know, I think I’ve shot a lot of—Gracie Glam’s a girl that’s starting to do [a particular sex act] that I’d like to shoot some [same particular sex act] with her. I just started shooting Kagney Linn Karter some; she’s starting to do some more interesting stuff. There’s a lot of great newer girls out there like Riley Reid, Stevie Shay, that I’d like to do a lot more with them.
Q: Regarding your tattoos, are you planning to keep building on them?
It’s something that I kind of get, you know, at interesting times in my life, so to speak. I’m friendly with one of the top tattoo artists in L.A., Mister Cartoon. He does Eminem and 50 Cent and a lot of celebrities. So when the time’s right, I kind of add some things here and there. I have no idea if I’ll get more, though.
Q: What would you be doing if you weren’t doing this for a living?
(Laughs) I don’t know, I don’t know. You know, I used to shoot some music stuff, live music stuff. I’ve always had a fascination with cameras, so I’d like to say I’d probably be doing something with cameras.