LM: Ah!…sighs….How do I compare to people now?
DG: Well who would you most closely identify with or relate with?
LM: You know I’ve never thought of it. If you ask me that in a follow up interview, I’ll have something, right now lets put that aside. Let me have time to think. Because that’s not really something that I do; I don’t compare myself with others. I never really did watch porn. It never influenced me. I never watched what other girls did.
I’ve never competed with the notion, well this girl does this, this way and this girl does this that way. I just do my own thing.
DG: Right. Makes sense…
LM: I have to look at who is copying me now; Because I started all this.
DG: True, true. Good point, good point. What would you say your proudest production achievement has been to date?
LM: Anything, Anything…I mean getting the movie done is my proudest day. The day it comes it, its just the beginning of the next procedure. Once it comes it of course then it has to be sold and then its got to be bought then its got to be collective. Its all…I mean its not nearly as easy as what you may think it might be.
DG: I imagine there is a lot to the post production process.
LM: Oh yeah. More than I want to.. You know we were going to start to put out one every, well we thought one a week. And we were going to build up to two a week by the end of the year. This means I’m going to be shooting while I have an editor sitting here editing while we have an offer ready to go straight into that so we can ship it into replication. Then there’s the duplication on the printing, then we have to have it packaged. We have to have it shipped. It’s like doh…. I had had no idea it was going to be this big.
DG: It sounds pretty hectic.
LM: I had no idea. If I knew then what I know now I would have made sure I came in with somebody to help me; but being the figure head and actually running this company doing everything from holding the camera to booking the girls to selling the product, making the deals, I didn’t realize how big it was.
I think about back in the day now when people really complained about how this was hard work. Meanwhile I’m thinking oh sure, they pick me up in the morning, they give me breakfast, they give me somebody to have sex with, they give me clothes to wear, they put me in pretty places, they drive me home and they pay me! Yeah, yeah really hard life.
Well that is just the beginning.
DG: A totally different side of the story on the other side of the camera too right?
LM: That’s where it begins. I mean where the talent ends that’s just where this job starts.
DG: Do you find you have much help in terms of being on the other side of the camera and all the other post production related issues?
LM: You know I—WOULD YOU STOP??!!!
(…at this point one of Lynn’s cats gets on her desk and proceeds to make herself abundantly known)
I’m fighting with the cat here, hold on.
DG: (…laughs)
LM: Alright there! Have you got a spot now? …trying to knock everything off my desk.
DG: He seems tenacious too.
LM: She. Her name is Penelope.
DG: Oh. Very nice; cute too.
LM: Yeah. She thinks so.
DG: (laughs…)
LM: There are eight of them here. They’re the little love boats in my life.
DG: I remember reading a biography of yours and when you’d lived in a house you’d had ten cats at one point.
LM: Yeah they seem to attract themselves to me. I’ve never bought a cat…well no I bought one. I went to the humane society to get a bunny. And there was this big fat orange cat. He’s over there. His name’s Fred. He’s like the biggest baby. I couldn’t help it. He was there for eight months and he needed to come home.
DG: What advise do you have if any for aspiring stars and starlets looking to emerge in the industry?
LM: Go home. No, there’s too many girls right now. It needs to be thinned out a little. Go home, go to school, get a job. Come and do this for fun.
DG: So do you feel that the market is saturated?
LM: Yes there are too many girls. There are maybe 5000 girls in the agency books in LA alone. That’s just too many.
DG: Wow.
LM: When I got into the business there were maybe a total of thirty people considered talent; male and female. We would have Christmas dinner together with our family members. We’d all go to a restaurant… it was a small industry. We knew who fucked who. Our sexual escapades were so low in that era, because we knew each other. We knew who was fucking who; who was doing what; who was into what. Now? You don’t know.
DG: It was virtually unheard of and now in an industry where virtually condoms are a staple. How do you feel that affects the intensity of the scenes that you produce?
LM: If they want to use a condom, then please. Put it on, talk about while you’re doing it. Say that this is what you’re into, just as long as it doesn’t irritate the other person such as allergies, great. I’m not an anti-condom person. I don’t think it changes anything. I think at home if I was going to pick up a guy from a bar, I’d put a condom on him and just tell him, hey that’s just how life is. You’d think that wouldn’t hurt our business at all.
DG: It makes it much more realistic in that sense I find anyway.
LM: And we should promote safe sex; In the world that it is today. Twenty years ago we didn’t have to. That’s what makes our movies classics.
DG: Yes that is true.
LM: Now it’s a different world. I mean my kids—I give them condoms by the bag full. My twenty year old daughter…they’re both in their twenties…I give them condoms by the bagfuls. If I go down the shops here I pack them up and send them to them. Last thing I need is for them to get anything.
DG: Well it is something that needs to be promoted anyway. In an industry such as this I think its sending the best message anyway.
LM: I hope so. If we don’t use condoms than who will? In the gay community there are fishbowls of condoms wherever you go. You can grab them at the door when you get a cocktail. Or on your way out if you meet a guy, you pick up a condom on your way out. In West Hollywood you can get a fine if you don’t have condoms at the door. It’s a wonderful deal.
DG: Define erotica for Lynn Lemay. What turns you on the most?
LM: Flashing
DG: So you’d say you’re a voyeuristic type?
LM: Yeah. (laughs…)
DG: Very nice. (laughs….)
LM: It makes what I’m doing now even better.
DG: It makes it come across as much more natural too right?
LM: Umm hmm I like to watch. I sit behind the camera, and in digital they’re telling me ‘sssshhh’. The editor is always calling out comments and I’m like, yeah, yeah like that.
DG: What would you say your typical fan interaction is like? How does it feel to be virtually worshipped by people of all ages and backgrounds?
LM: (laughs…) Well if I’m dressed and have my make up on and have my hair done and I run into them then that’s one thing…then I’m prepared. But if I need to pick up something at 711 and all the sudden they gush in front of people who don’t know who I am its kind of like ‘ssshhh, ssshhh’. (laughs….)
Or the guy that walks up to you and says, ‘Oh my God I jacked off to you yesterday!’ Yeah I prefer that I’m not standing next to my Mom when he says that…A lot of people get all star struck and they forget where they are when they meet you.
DG: Yeah and perhaps not the most candid of approaches.
LM: (laughs…) You’d be surprised at what people do and what comes out of their mouths in public places.
DG: I guess last but not least Lynn, what sorts of projects or new fine endeavors can we anxiously anticipate in the near future?
LM: I am starting a gay line. I think that its something different to shoot. I want to shoot it. I want to see what the relationship is like there. Maybe it’ll make my straight movies better. I’m going to the GAYVN’S. I’m going to check things out. You know they’re selling gay movies out the door for $69.95. One of my brand new movies you can get in any store for $19.95 or you can write to me and get them for $15.95. I mean just even budget wise there are so many straight movies now that a gay line for my company is my next step. Of two straight movies, I want to do one gay a month.
DG: Sounds very interesting. Do you get a lot of personal requests on line for male themes, certain genres, requests in terms of own personal fantasies that they want fulfilled?
LM: I wish they would! Please put it I there! And you gotta write me to pass it along, baby bring it! I’ve got people coming to me everyday putting me into a spin, like God what am I going to do with them? If I had an average guy’s input to his fantasies it would make my life a lot easier.
DG: That’s true
LM: I would love to hear what they have to say. You know? Write it on my myspace. I’m really easy to get a hold of.
DG: I wanted to thank you once again for being such a gracious guest and wanted to wish you all the best. Much prosperity for LeMayzing Productions.
LM: Anytime. And please lets do a follow up in about six months and we’ll do this again.
DG: I’ll look forward to that. Thanks very much.
LM: My pleasure.






leonaskye
Great interview Dave…
Lynn seems like such a class act.
Can’t wait for the follow up