DAVE GAMMON: Thank you for taking the time out of your busy and chaotic schedule to join us in this interview on edencafe.com. I understand you’re a little under the weather so this means that much more. You’ve achieved mesmerizing accolades within our industry. Multiple AVN, XRCO and Night-moves awards (just to name a few) are truly setting the precedence in adult entertainment in Jenna Haze. What is your single proudest achievement to date?

JENNA HAZE: Wow! My single proudest achievement to date? That’s really hard because my career has been almost ten years now.

DG: That’s right!

JH: I would have to say it’s a toss up between when I got performer of the year, and I got to host the AVN awards. That was absolutely an amazing moment; also this year when I got awards for my company. That was really, really amazing because I got my company, after two years, recognized. I won three major categories for it. The Best Girl-Girl Scene being the outstanding award. So this year was just amazing to see it finally do really well and gain accolades that I think I deserve.

DG: Absolutely. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with…and stars and starlets always sort of nay-say this kind of research but…Wikipedia.com?

JH: Yeah, the Wikipedia page is done by a fan of mine. He updates it all the time, he’s a good friend as well.

DG: Great, so you’ve seen the page then?

JH: Of course.

DG: Actually one of the pages in particular has two and a half pages of listing just the awards and achievements you’ve attained since in the business. It’s quite impressive, to say the least.

 

JH: It’s pretty crazy. I never thought that when I got in the business ten years ago, I would be as successful as I am now.

DG: You truly deserve it. You entered the business in 2001, and have achieved more in those ten years than most do within a lifetime. The business has evolved tremendously with the growth of the internet bringing performers and fans closer together through one on one cam shows, Twitter, facebook, and personal wish-lists. What do you think the next natural progression in technology will be to bring fans and performers even closer together?

JH: Honestly, I think the mobile stuff is next. I know a lot of girls have been talking about face timing with the fans. That stuff makes me a little bit nervous. (combined laughs)… a little bit really close to the fans.

DG: Sure…..

JH: But I think everything is going mobile, you know? Portable porn….

DG: That’s true.

JH: …as quick as you can get it, and all digital and everything like that. Sucks to think DVD’s are going out pretty soon.

DG: It’s unbelievable, yeah.

JH: When I got into the business, my first movies were on VHS. I bought a ton of VHS thinking: “Oh, it’s VHS, it’s going to be around for a while.”

DG: (laughs)

JH: Ah…no. I have boxes of VHS in my garage. I think the whole mobile thing is the way everything is going to go. You know? I’m really active with my fans, meeting them at conventions and stuff like that. I’m really active with my one on one shows; like you were saying. I’m really active with my Twitter and stuff like that. The industry, like you said is constantly changing. So who knows?

DG: OK. Interesting. You’ve worked with numerous studios: Elegant Angel, Wicked, Vivid, Jill Kelly Productions. Who are some of your inter-industry confidants? Who is a mentor or inspiration to you when first beginning?

JH: Well everyone comes into the business knowing Jenna Jameson right?

DG: Right. Kind of a staple, right? (combined laughs)

JH: I’d watched a couple of Jenna Jameson movies. They weren’t really my style. But I definitely have to say that every girl looks up to her. She’s the biggest adult star ever. I don’t look up to her sexually—performances or anything like that. I definitely look up to her in the way she handles her company. She really knows how to market herself and stuff like that.

DG: Sure.

JH: I think that more of a mentor for me would be Bella Donna. She’s way more my kind of speed. I’ve known her a long, long time, and I knew her when she was just a performer and I thought about having a company. I really watched her evolve from an incredible, intense performer into a fantastic director…

DG: Yes!

JH: …and company owner. She has her own little style, and while I don’t—I’m not turned on by everything she shoots, she shoots some stuff that’s out there–I really respect her hard working ethic, and I really respect her ability to do what she thinks is sexy and not give a fuck what anyone else thinks. I think that is awesome. She really inspires me to do better, and do what turns me on. Because, I mean, part of us are complete opposites in a lot of ways. I’m very much business minded, the way she is. I’m very driven the way she is.

DG: Okay.

JH: As far as confidants go, my best friend is Joanna Angel, and she’s also a company owner and director. She’s taught me a lot. When I started my company she taught me a lot. She’s given me some great advice. She’s given me some bad advice, it didn’t work so well for me, but it worked well for her. You know? But she’s my sounding board (laughs); Her and definitely Jules (Jordan).

DG: The term “straight off the bus syndrome” eludes to the staggering number of people getting into porn each day.

JH: Oh yeah.

DG: What talent has forced you to sit up and notice as a force to be reckoned with? Who do you aspire to work with in the future?

JH: Wow. That’s a question that always kind of puts me on the spot. I’m always like….’What girls do I like, and what girls do you want to work with?’ And I’m like, ahhh….(combined laughs)….there’s just so many of them. I can’t always pull a name out of my hat. I shot a girl named Chanel Preston the other day. She was absolutely incredible, as a performer, incredible. I don’t ordinarily shoot girls with big boobs. I’m only doing one line of movies that have enhanced boobs in them. All my other stuff is all natural girls. I shot her, and I haven’t directed a scene where, or seen, a girl who is that intense of a performer, or that crazy of a performer since Lauren Phoenix, which was years ago (combined laughs). She’s absolutely incredible. That girl’s going to be going far. Another girl is in one of my movies, Dani Jensen. She’s in one of my young girl movies, is absolutely incredible.

Gosh I’m looking at my movies now and thinking, hmmmm which ones do I really like? Oh Lilly Lebeaux-amazing! In Ho Down she does an incredible scene, incredible.

DG: Good.

JH: …like blew my mind! Yeah I definitely think that Lilly Lebeaux and Chanel Preston are two top ones that have made me go ‘Wow’! Then there’s always new girls coming in like you’d said. Always, every week there’s a new girl I want to have sex with (combined laughs).

DG: How true. I can see that.

JH: Right now my current crush, and it’s been a crush since AVN this year, is Adrenaline. I got to work with her for a movie last year. I worked with her in “Deviants 2”, in a four-way, girl-girl scene. I’d really like to shoot her for something in my company. She’s a good friend of mine. She’s extremely sexy and a good performer.

DG: Okay. What advice do you have for people contemplating getting into this business?

JH: Um…that’s an easy one. Make sure it’s something you really want to do, because once you do it, it’s something that will stay with you for the rest of your life.

DG: Well, it’s immortalized in a sense, sure.

JH: It is. I mean you’re having sex on film, forever. It’s going to be somewhere. I see so many girls get in the business, and they think it’s just fun and games, and easy money, and partying and all that stuff. They don’t realize that they can’t go back and be a teacher.

DG: No. That’s true.

JH: They can’t go back and have a normal life after doing so many videos and stuff. It’s something that stays with you forever. It can be an amazing industry for you if you work it right. If you want to do it, and you’re passionate about it. But so many girls get in the business, but really don’t want to be in it, and are there for the wrong reasons. So do your research. Go on set. Meet people in the business, before you take the plunge.