SKYE: This is the first time I’ve done this so we’ll just take it easy and have some fun.

ANN MARIE RIOS: Did you say this is the first time you’ve done this?

SKYE: Yes, the first time. So I’m a virgin.

AMR: Oh this really is special. Sounds like fun!

SKYE: Yeah this is going to be great.

AMR: So I’m your first adult person.

SKYE: Exactly. You can plug anything you want to plug, as much as you want to do it.

AMR: Awesome.

SKYE: Ms. Rios, I wish to extend the warmest of welcomes and deepest of thanks for agreeing to this interview with me and EdenCafe.com today. To be frank, I’ve only had limited exposure to your work.

Without doubt, one of your most impressive accolades is your innovation or multi-talents. Having studied at the Vamar Academy of acting in Hollywood, acquiring your real estate license, and entering the realm of adult entertainment, all before the age of 19—You’ve celebrated success appearing in music videos, Fox T.V., hosted shows for KSEX radio, Playboy radio/TV, and the Spice Channel. How would you compare chasing the dream in mainstream vs. porn pursuits?

AMR: Well I can’t say too much for sure because I’m not really chasing the mainstream dream. But the few times I do encounter mainstream projects, the one thing I noticed right away is it takes a lot of casting that goes into mainstream. There’s a lot of open calls, and when you go there, there’s a ton of people there. You go through processes. Where as in adult films, someone calls my agent and they want me. It’s very rare that I have to go and audition for them. I mean it happens from time to time, but rarely. Not too much in adult. In mainstream you have to try out and do readings, things like that.

SKYE: Well, fantastic. So as you were saying, they actually search you out.

AMR: Yeah, Yeah, definitely. I mean you have agents who actively try and get you work. But for the most part, for the amount of people who hire me are people that already have me in mind and state, ‘well we want her for the part.’

SKYE: Needless to state, a resounding consensus regarding some of your most recognizable features is your all natural Latina appearance. Is it a challenge to secure work in an industry with no enhancement? Are the demands for silicone and saline valleys simply diminishing?

AMR: Are the demands diminishing?

SKYE:  Yeah less fake boobies. Less fake noses….

AMR: Hmmm….

SKYE: Because you portray a real natural look. I’ve had your picture posted before me for days now.

AMR: Ah! Nice…

SKYE: So you do have a very beautiful, natural look about you.

AMR: Ummm. Thank you. I’ll take that as a compliment. I think that’s a lot of the reason I’m able to do so many different kinds of media. Besides adult, I do a lot of soft core features for HBO, Showtime, things like that which are not XXX. They’re double X. So, a lot of the time I get cast in parts where they specifically want a girl with a natural look, like a normal girl that does not look like a porn star. So, I think personally it has opened up a lot more avenues to work, because my look is kind of like the girl next door, so to speak. I think there are a lot of people who still like enhancements. There’s still a lot of girls getting them, and there’s still a lot of guys that just like big boobs. They don’t care if they’re real or fake, they just like big boobs. So there are a lot of guys in particular that like small boobs, tiny boobs, or butt men, or whatever. I would say that it’s probably not the same for me personally. I believe not being enhanced at all helps me get a lot more work than if I were.

SKYE: That makes a lot of sense. Tell me, what’s the difference between double and triple X?

AMR: (laughs) In triple X you can see the action, you actually see the penetration.

SKYE: Umm hmm….

AMR: Where as in double X, it is implied, yet you don’t see it.

SKYE: Oh. Okay.

AMR: You don’t know if it’s really happening or not, but it’s completely implied. It’s closer to what you see in mainstream movies…the love scenes. You can’t see it, but they’re naked. They’re under the sheets. They’re implying it.

SKYE: Okay. I get it now. Thank you.

AMR: No full nudity. Whereas in mainstream, you know you’re not going to get a lot of mainstream actresses to run around and prance around naked. So there is still full nudity, yet there’s just not hard core penetration.

SKYE: You’ve also graced the other side of the camera, having directed for Metro’s Babes Illustrated. Who are some of your influences when it comes to directors?

AMR: Oh, I definitely have to say James Avalon is a big influence. He’s one of the first feature directors I’ve worked with. He did most of my movies when I was under contract with Metro. That’s just how we met, we did a lot of features together. We just had this very avant-garde, non-chalant way of dealing with scenes, and it was very refreshing. I learned quite a lot from him. As far as actually physically directing actors, I learned a lot from working with Paul Thomas, you know, who worked many years with Vivid. I shot a lot of my early films when I was nineteen. With Vivid, I’d gotten my first AVN award for a Paul Thomas movie. I learned quite a bit from him on a different level. I would say those two for sure.

SKYE: Excellent tell our fans..

AMR: Oh! I have to back up. I have to mention one more. He would kill me! He actually influenced me a lot, and he is an awesome, awesome director: Mike Quazar, also known as Quazarman.

SKYE: Tell our fans and audience about Erotique Entertainment, and how you’ve secured the presidential nod within this company.

AMR: Well Erotique is a newer company with a woman friendly approach to adult entertainment, and they should have very nice glamorized stuff; the woman is always the hero or the victor. The woman is always on a pedestal, and I did quite a bit of work for them. I still work for them, and I am friends with the owner and his wife. But I don’t do too much work for them. I don’t act with their company, simply because I can’t, and really don’t have the time. But I do still work with them quite a bit, and appear with them on
behalf of the company, and events and stuff like that. Still very much good with them.

SKYE: Within the world of porn, what do you think the biggest disaster/misadventure has been on a creative level? (i.e. porn parodies)

AMR: A porn parody that I’ve been in? I would have to say, without doubt…..(laughs), only because it seems to be such the American phenomenon this past year, the official Jersey Shore parody by Zero Tolerance.

And the show itself on MTV is a disaster. So of course, you know when they make a campy porn adult version, it’s going to be more so the crazy episode. I had a lot of fun making it. I had a really cool little part. I had some fun with the actor. It actually was nominated for best porn parody this year. So I’d have to say, that one.