You know, sometimes I'll have a photographer
who's literally six inches away from my balls.
And I can feel his breath on my balls
as he's taking the photos.
And he's just trying to do his job,
I'm just trying to do mine.
But if you can work with someone who you're cool
with, it makes that scenario a lot easier for everyone.
So, I used to work on a building site. That was great.
I went to Germany for the World Cup.
And a few friends saw my cock one day
and just sort of made a joke, you know,
that I should really be doing something
that and not working on a building site.
And it just sparked an idea, you know,
that someone somewhere was a porn star.
And maybe I could give it a go.
So I started just going to a few, like, swinging clubs
and things like that, just to sort of see
if I had the confidence or the ability
to have sex in front of strangers.
I ended up meeting a guy there
who paid me to have sex with his wife.
Obviously, he saw in my face I was amazed by it.
And he said I'll give you 150 euros every time you do that.
And I just literally was like, "Let's go again."
[INYERVIEWER] That's a lot of money.
It was, at 18, yeah, I was 18,
so I could just keep going.
[INTERVIEWER] So, how did you go from
that experience to actually entering the industry?
It was a lot of legwork.
I had to sort of, you know, sort of prove myself,
if you were, working for a lot of smaller companies
to be able to get an opportunity
to work for a bigger company.
And after you've sort of worked
with the bigger companies, you're sort of able
to get a series or, like, a five-scene deal or something.
Yeah, basically just had to work through the ranks
and keep working for the better companies
until I sort of got to a established part where I am now.
[INTERVIEWER] Talk me through a porn shoot
from call time to wrap, what happens?
Generally, on a porn shoot everyone
will arrive on the set.
We would have all been pretested for STI tests
and stuff like that before anyone enters set.
Once everyone's paperwork's signed off,
we sign in the girl, we have a full legal disclaimer
and paperwork and everything that we have to run through.
Once all that's gone through,
we'll put the girl into makeup.
From there, we'll usually then run into the acting,
where we go through all the dialogue of the script
and sort of get everything out of the way up until the sex.
At that point, we'll break.
Prep for sex, where the guys and girls go
and clean themselves, and have some lunch,
whatever they need to do before sex.
And then, generally, we'll rattle out the scene,
do sex stills first, then sex video afterwards.
The sex stills, basically, are the photos
of the scene, but they definitely help
the performers just find the flow.
So, rather than just calling "action" and two people
are gonna go at it, we kind of use the stills
to maybe guide the direction of the scene.
So we know what position's gonna flow
to the next position, and what positions
are comfortable or uncomfortable for certain performers.
So, the stills definitely help as, like,
a sort of guideline to the scene.
Then we shoot the outro, and that's pretty much it.
After that point, there's a little bit more paperwork
at the end, but that's pretty much our day.
[INTERVIEWER] Not as glamorous
as everyone might perceive it to be.
Certainly not what everyone perceives, yeah.
Most people's perception of porn is like
a giant orgy or just like a huge gang bang.
And just everyone goes there and has sex.
And the camera man gets involved.
And after that he has a go.
And it couldn't be further away from the truth.
A lot of people might think it's glamorous and stuff,
but it doesn't always end that way.
You know, sometimes I'll have a photographer
who's literally six inches away from my balls.
And I can feel his breath on my balls
as he's taking the photos.
And he's just trying to do his job,
I'm just trying to do mine.
But if you can work with someone who you're cool
with, it makes that scenario a lot easier for everyone.
[INTERVIEWER] I just feel like, it's like
almost amazing to have enough confidence to sleep
with someone in front of, like, 10 crew members.
It's extremely easy to have sex
in front of people.
It's more in your head, to be fair. It's one of them.
If you're able just to be in the moment and enjoy
what you're doing, it doesn't matter what's around you.
You know, if you have sex in a hotel room,
you don't look at all the pictures and stuff on the wall.
It's just, they're just around you, you know.
When you're in the moment, the crew are just,
they're just paintings on the wall.
[INTERVIEWER] There's like a fascination
about the adult industry.
And do you think it's fair the way
that the media represents the industry?
I personally don't think the porn industry
gets portrayed in a very good light.
Most documentaries are looking for the negative story.
No one wants to hear how great the porn star's life is.
My life, personally, is amazing.
And everything that's amazing about it
has come through adult- it's changed my life.
I've been able to buy homes and look after my family.
Of course, there's some bad eggs.
But generally, most speaking, I've only dealt
with great people and had positive experiences.
At the end of the day, nothing's more sexier in the footage
than a performer enjoying themselves and having fun.
Like, we don't want someone to do something
they're not comfortable with or not happy with.
[INTERVIEWER] What would you say is the biggest cliché
that people think about when they think of porn?
Fluffers. Every single person I've ever met
thinks there's a fluffer, you know,
just their job is to get the guys hard.
Nothing could be more further from the truth if I'm honest.
It was very eloquently explained to me once
that if you can't get hard for the girl
that we're paying you to f**k,
then why would we pay another girl to suck you off?
Like, it just doesn't make any sense.
That, and just everyone having an orgy on the set.
They're the two most common misconceptions that people have.
They think it's just a wild party with drugs and hookers.
Or, yeah, that fluffers are everywhere
just sucking people off.
I kind of wish there were fluffers, you know.
That would be great.
[INTERVIEWER] And how have you found sustaining
a relationship whilst working in the industry?
It can be difficult.
When I first started out, it was very difficult
to find a relationship or keep hold of a relationship.
You can't be an idiot to the fact of what you're doing.
You know, you are having sex with people.
That is tough to deal with, I think,
if anyone had to sort of be okay with their partner.
There will be some jealousy.
There will be some issues, you know.
But, personally, I've been very lucky.
My wife's very supportive of my career.
Before I met my wife, it was difficult.
You know, you meet someone, you might get along.
You tell them you do porn for a living.
It kind of closes the door pretty quick.
[INTERVIEWER] Does it pay well?
Porn can pay well, yeah. It certainly can.
A medium-level performer-
obviously, guys earn a little bit less than girls.
But, you know, a thousand pounds a day
someone could easily earn for a scene.
And as I say, so it can work out quite well,
especially if you've got a good brand or a good look,
and you can end up getting lots of bookings.
A lot of industries, the men tend to earn higher.
But yeah, there's a lot of females
that do generally straight from the box
command a higher rate than male talent.
But as you find as you go through the industry,
the more desirable male talent, the stronger male talent,
they catch up pretty quickly to the female talent.
Because a good guy is worth his weight in gold, you know.
[INTERVIEWER] Do you have a genre
that, like, you perform the most?
I wouldn't say I have a genre that I perform the most.
Most of my scenes are sort of me
and one girl or me and two girls.
But I do generally like to do the features,
where we get to kind of build a character
and kind of get to play a character for, say, five scenes
and follow a story-based script.
Normally, we just kind of get the
run-of-the mill acting script, whether it be the plumber
or the pizza guy or whatever.
So when we do get a feature, and you really get to sink
your teeth into a character, I really do enjoy that.
Because it just gives you a bit of a different
challenge to what your normal day is.
And you get to build a character out of nothing
and then sort of follow his journey throughout the film.
One character I really enjoyed playing
was a character called Murphy.
He was a survivor of a dystopian world.
And basically, women sort of ruled the world,
and petrol, and things like that, was, like,
the new commodities of the world.
And he was a sort of like an underground cop
kind of thing, trying to hunt these baddies.
And we had amazing locations, and proper
underground tunnels, and bases, and stuff like that.
So, it was an amazing character that I got to play with.
And I decided that he was an American.
So yeah, I got to do a silly accent
for a week, which was kind of fun.
[INTERVIEWER] How did you integrate sex into that?
It sounds like a whole film on its own.
Yeah, it was a whole film on its own.
And there was lots of different strange
elements that we bought into that.
You know, where it's from a dystopian world,
we was able to go really, really out there
in our styling and our costumes.
For one of the girls I built her,
I got this gas mask and then attached
the front of a Fleshlight to the mask.
So, she basically had just a vagina in her gas mask face,
and then did the same with the gas mask face,
which looked really cool.
But it's like something that we definitely
couldn't put into a normal adult film.
A lot of the time we'll see something
from conventional stuff that we like the idea of.
You know, that happens a lot.
I've just saw a clip the other day
on YouTube from a 'Haywire' fight scene.
A guy and a girl just literally destroy
a hotel room having a fight.
And I was like, "That would look great as a sex scene."
Just two guys beat the crap out of each other,
smash everything up and then
in the throws of passion have sex.
So, yeah, inspiration can come from anywhere.
I suppose we just look at different ideas
and sort of see how we can convert that
or mould that into our industry.
[INTERVIEWER] Is there something you can pinpoint
that has changed the industry at all?
I'd definitely say, like,
the introduction of other platforms.
There's so many different platforms now,
such as OnlyFans, ManyVids, all those types of things,
where content creators can upload
their own footage and charge the end user.
That's a whole new concept that kind of wasn't
around say 10 years ago, or five years ago.
People can upload content to their own platform
with their phone and charge X-amount
a month and hit the consumer directly.
And again, the type of content that they're able
to produce is a lot different to the content
that has been accessible for so long.
You know, it does feel a lot more personal,
a lot more one-on-one with the performer.
And I definitely think that's a market
that has grown because of that interactiveness.
[INTERVIEWER] As a porn star director
and company owner, what is important to you to do
in the industry to make it better?
Yeah, I think the porn industry is ready for change.
The main changes will be to empower our performers.
You know, we want girls to feel empowered in their scenes.
I want them to be happy with their performances.
And that's something that we're really big on.
You know, every morning as I say,
we like to go through a full checklist
of everything the performer likes to do,
things that they don't like to do.
We have all crew on set to listen to that,
just so that if anyone hears anything
or sees anything that the girl said,
"Oh, I'm not really a fan of that," then they can interject.
We like everyone to be completely on the same page
before we start shooting so that there's no misconceptions.
There'll be several hand signals given to the girl.
If she wants to stop, she can give a hand signal
to a member of crew, who will then cut the scene.
She can cut the scene at any point.
You know, it's definitely about just empowering
so that people don't have negative experiences,
or so that people feel that they have a voice on set.
[INTERVIEWER] In the UK as a porn
actor, do you feel accepted?
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, plenty of people who recognise
me say hello and applaud my work.
Yeah, and as I say, I feel accepted to a certain degree.
Is it as applauded as it is in America? Certainly not.
But yeah, it's definitely getting better over the years.
I've noticed that, you know, as a whole society is becoming
a lot more open to adult entertainment and stuff.
It's not as stuffy as it once was.
But we do definitely have a little way
to go to catch up on to the Americans.
[INTERVIEWER] Is it an industry you would
recommend people getting involved in?
I think it's something you have
to be very aware of what you're getting into.
When you're 18, or whatever age,
it might seem like a great, fun idea.
Is that gonna be-
Are you gonna have that same mentality when you're 33?
Maybe not. You know, it's a difficult decision,
something that you definitely need
to know what you're going into.
Once you put something on the internet,
it's out there. It's always out there.
You can't change your mind.
And that applies to everything. It's not just porn.
I mean, even like nudes. If you send a nude,
you can't take that back, no matter
how much you want. Someone's downloaded it.
And it's the same thing for porn.
You know, people, come, they'll do the scene, they like it.
And then they meet someone, and they don't want to do it,
or they have children.
You know, it definitely has a big impact on your life
and something you just have to really be sure
that it's something that you want to do.
[INTERVIEWER] Has there been any moment
where you've just thought I'm gonna pack
this in, I can't do this anymore?
You know what? I've never really considered it.
I love my job, I love what I do.
It's not about the sex.
I literally go to work and hang out
with my friends every single day.
I get to create movies and films
and stuff that I just geek out on all day.
And I get to play with fancy cameras
and build really cool things.
And yeah, I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather do.
If anything, it's just I always think about
how I can maintain. Like, how can I keep this going?
I started porn when I was 18, I'm now 33.
And I've never had to have a real job.
As they say, I don't feel like I work a day in my life.
And for me, that's just the win.