Part 1
LYNN LEMAY: Oh man, I have way too many grey hairs over this one. (laughs…)
DG: (laughs..) Tell me about this picture it seems very exciting.
LM: Its my first picture with 100% pictures. We have three companies that have joined together and we have a wholesaler, a distributing company and a production company and LeMayzing Pictures will be releasing through one hundred percent; that’s the name of the company one hundred percent. This new title some like it dark, its starring Lamoure sisters, Jon Jon, Rico Shade and Kaci Starr and Tabitha Tucker.
DG: That sounds really good.
LM: It’ll hopefully be done by the end of the day or else we’re going to….. (sighs….) I hope its done by the end of the day.
DG: Sounds really hectic. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer these questions with me.
LM: It’s no problem.
DG: Describe how the brainchild for LeMayzing Productions came about. In an industry where it is often challenging to remain fresh and innovative, what does LeMayzing pictures bring to the table for adult film conisseurs and avid Lynn LeMay fans alike?
LM: I don’t go to the extremes. I’m keeping it tightly—it’s what you would normally see if you watched your neighbours fuck. There’s no choking in my movies. Nobody’s hitting any body else. And I don’t allow any spitting on anyone else aside from lubrication purposes. I should—from a female perspective…
….there is a little bit more going on, I got some ass going.
I want people to relate to the sex scene; not just watch some girl get pounded by whatever they can stick in there. A little more style, is what I’m after. Something that you can watch with your wife or your girlfriend and not have her go, “ Oh my God! Did you see that?’.
DG: (laughs….)
LM: I want her to say, “Honey, do you want to try that?”
DG: Really what we’re looking for is something with more of a couples’ appeal to it.
LM: Yeah, only from a female perspective. I show my movies to gay people too. Oh and gay girls love my stuff. Gay guys cheer my stuff, because I get really good looking guys.
DG: ….well, that’s good…
LM: …or I try…(laughs)
DG: Have you had difficulty with casting? Is it something that is an ongoing or reoccurring issue?
LM: There are a lot of personality issues in porn.
DG: Oh, I can imagine.
LM: So I don’t know how you want to take that conversation, (combined laughs…)
Yeah there are personalities in porn, none of which I want to get into individually.
DG: I understand…Lynn you’ve been inducted into the legends of erotica hall of fame in 2005, the AVN hall of fame in 2006. How has your decision to leave the industry from a performer’s perspective impacted your life in the present?
LM: I would not have had the nerve to try and direct now if I was still on my back acting. I came in at a good time, as a new, young girl. I went through the stars, the star acting where I was a headliner all the time and now I’m a MILF and I could have been an upper level MILF if I’d stayed in. But I don’t’ want to fuck for a living when I’m fifty.
DG: No, I understand that really—
LM: I’m coming up on… I have to make a decision.
DG: Sure…
LM: So I thought maybe some people would like to see what my perspective is. The very first thing I say to talent when I hire them is what do you want to do? And no one has ever really gone with that. So this has given me a chance to try something different and never had the ability to try.
I did a year in college. I tried to be a teacher and really this is where my heart is.
DG: It seems as though your passion is reflective in your work too. What would you say you miss the most about the business from a performer’s stand point?
LM: I want to be young again. I want to be able to compete with myself when I was 26. Lynn at 47 between Lynn Lemay at 26 which book ends my career, we were very different people.
DG: Absolutely.
LM: If you watch a Lynn LeMay movie just before I retired, against one of my first movies; in the beginning I had no boundaries. It was anyone, anytime, anywhere and I had a great time doing it. Later on, 25 years of stripping my knees are showing it. Reverse cow-girl now gets harder. You know?… I don’t want to compete with myself.
DG: Did you find that towards the tail end of your career that maybe there was some cynicsm that came into play? And some different politics that unveiled behind the screen that was maybe a factor in leaving the industry from a performer’s standpoint?
LM: Yeah, and they’re doing shit I don’t want to do.
DG: Some if it is just a little too extreme eh?
LM: I don’t want to do that stuff.
DG: Understandable. Is there anyone who you had not had the chance to perform with that you wish maybe you did?
LM: Hershel Savage. John Leslie.
DG: Okay.
LM: You know, I never got a couple of the big ones. I missed out on some of the bigger guys because I came in late. David Christopher, I heard he was a great performer. And now there are all these new hot little guys, I missed them too.
DG: (laughs…)
LM: Well its not as if I can’t have them. Its just not as fun when its not on camera.
DG: Dually noted.
LM: I’ve noticed a lot of they guys treat me like, like the girls treat the older actors.
DG: Really?
LM: Oh yeah. They come loving up on me….whispering in my ear, all the same sorts of things I used to do to directors when I was trying to get work.
DG: Ah, just a regular schmooze feast right?
LM: You know? Its all in who ya blow.
(combined laughs….)
To be continued next week…
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