With the national theater release of Zack and Miri make a porno, the famous porn star Belladonna speaks out about the reality of making your own sex movies. I found this interview at Xbiz which is a site for people in the adult video and sex toy businesses. I can’t tell if it’s an excerpt from an interview, but the few points that she makes in the article are certainly important.
I think most people know that Hollywood can make anything look easy is the movies, whether it’s flying through the air while shooting or driving a car at 200 miles per hour, the reality is that things are much harder in the real world. In the porn world, things are sometimes much softer than you want them to be, even with viagra and a plethora of other herbs and pills on the market that make it easier to get a hard on, when the camera crew has equipment and lights shining up your ass, sometimes it’s hard to keep an erection, even if you really want to fuck the people who are waiting for it.
Other points she makes about having to have sex with people that you really don’t want to… well I guess some people do that in the porno business, but you certainly don’t have to. I myself, well, actually, I have, but that’s another story. Belladonna is right about the pressure involved overall.
I am glad she discusses the need to get everyone naked ad inspect their bodies before a sex video shoot, mentioning that she has had actresses arrive with staph infections and I know that she herself has had to lay out of work for periods of time due to issues with her own skin. Sometimes actors are not aware of their bodies, and sometimes perhaps they are aware of a bad rash or other issue, but need to work to pay the bills. I know I’ve seen some good porn that could of been a lot better if one of the actors did not have a huge biol that kept distracting me – I think it was a scene from cum shitters with Manuel Ferrara – he was the producer and he had the annoying, distracting boil!
Certainly taking a good look at your talent before shooting, and being mentally prepared for not shooting that day (and sending other people home, sometimes having to pay others) is something to be aware of, and having a backup plan or backup actors in case you need to make adjustments is a good idea. Being aware of skin issues before the shoot could also give you and the camera crew a chance to consider shooting from angles that do not catch the area on film, and perhaps still turn out a good fuck flick, but advance knowledge is power, it is much easier to change the shoot than to try to cut out a lot of otherwise good film in post.
I’m glad to see Belladonna is still active and vocal in many areas of the adult industry, many people know her films and know her name. Certainly some of the incredible anal sex scenes she has done, including taking rather large sex toys in her ass and sometimes multiple toys in multiple holes, along with great gangbang flicks, all while smiling, have won her many fans! I know a lot of women that like Belladonna as a porno actress, and she does a lot of hard core sex work on camera that is not the “wholesome” vanilla type work that Jenna Jameson has used to win over female viewers.
I love to make sex movies, and I enjoy watching fuck flicks that others have made. Maybe we’ll see more amateur exhibitionists with the new Zack and Miri make a porno movie in the theaters, perhaps when it comes out on DVD we’ll see many more people decide that a quick way to make a few extra bucks in this tough economy is to film some fucking! Let’s hope they take advice from others and get good angles and good lighting. If you get good stuff on film (perhaps the hardest part), then you’ll need help marketing it, and thats where professionals like us come in!
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