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Roger T. Pipe Why not interview someone in a strip club? Well, it’s hard to hear for one thing, but you know it’s already growing on me. Let’s get started. I’m here with Alex Ladd and Constance Le and we should start with the big announcement. You have formed your own production, correct?
Alex Ladd Yes, production, distribution the whole deal.
Roger T. Pipe What is it called?
Alex Ladd DVSX.
Roger T. Pipe Is it just you?
Alex Ladd Actually, I have a partner, Javier. You might know him. He’ll be taking care of the sales end, and I’ll be handling production.
Roger T. Pipe When does the first movie come out?
Alex Ladd October 8th. It’s called Teen Sensations and it’s directed by Constance Le who is sitting right beside me. It’s her first movie.
Roger T. Pipe Why hers first?
Alex Ladd Simply because mine wasn’t ready and I won’t release something if I’m not happy with it.
Roger T. Pipe Are there only two directors shooting for DVSX right now?
Alex Ladd No, we also have newcomer Bryan Xin who is doing two lines. The first is a naturally large breasted line, DDs and over, called Truly Nice Tits, or TNT. The other line is called Truly Nice Ass or TNA. I am directing a line called Double Parked, or DP.
Roger T. Pipe I see a common theme, but it doesn’t work with Teen Sensations.
Alex Ladd No, TS wouldn’t really fit with what the movie is.
Constance It was the first movie we titled, so there was no scheme. Sakura Tales doesn’t fit the scheme either.
Alex Ladd Bryan made up his own titles. All of the directors will own their own product.
Roger T. Pipe Why did you start your own company?
Alex Ladd I just got tired of hopping around from company to company. I knew that there had to be a better way. Why not get a bunch of directors who want to make real money and start a company where everyone owns their own product. It’s their energy and it assures better quality. No one is going to release crap because they won’t make any money with it. We’ve scrapped a few scenes that we didn’t like because that’s how it should be done. It’s what the better companies are doing and that’s what we want to do.
Roger T. Pipe What other differences will there be in your movies?
Alex Ladd We are shooting six scene movies instead of five. There are a lot of multiple partner scenes. The DVDs are filled to capacity. Bryan had more stuff he wanted to put on, but we ran out of room.
Roger T. Pipe Are you doing simultaneous DVD releases?
Alex Ladd Absolutely, that’s the only way to do it.
Roger T. Pipe Going back for a little background what are some of the companies you’ve shot for?
Alex Ladd I shot for just about everyone. You name it, I’ve done it. Thirteen years ago I was painting sets for Ron Vogel. I handed out towels, move up to still photography, then camera, and eventually got to direct.
Roger T. Pipe So why make this move now?
Alex Ladd I have the distribution both foreign and domestic and I have the money right now. I’m ready to go.
Roger T. Pipe In case some people aren’t familiar with your stuff, you’ve done a lot for Elegant Angel.
Alex Ladd I shot for Elegant Angel, Metro, Sin City and many other companies.
Roger T. Pipe For Elegant Angel, you shot the Gang Bang Angels for a while.
Alex Ladd I started at 3 and then stopped at 13. I also shot the last one that they released under a different name.
Roger T. Pipe You shot the one that got pulled off the shelves right?
Alex Ladd Yes, that was number nine with Miko Lee.
Roger T. Pipe Why was that pulled?
Alex Ladd Alleged copyright infringement. It was settled out of court.
Roger T. Pipe You shot in a fraternity house right?
Alex Ladd Yes, it was the use of their emblem and shooting in the house that caused the problem. We had the permission of the President of the local chapter to shoot there, and everyone there knew what was going on. But this is sue-happy America, after all.
Roger T. Pipe Well fraternities have to keep up their squeaky clean image. Nothing scandalous ever happens there.
Alex Ladd God forbid. Fraternity guys don’t watch porno or anything.
Roger T. Pipe If anyone can get a copy of that movie, it’s a great gang bang.
Alex Ladd It was fun. Miko Lee was great. I can’t get a hold of her these days though. Miko call me!
Roger T. Pipe What do you think some of your best movies are?
Alex Ladd Gang Bang Angels 3, I went all out on. Sabrina Johnson was great. It was over budget, but it came out great. For Sin City, I think Behind the Counter was a good one.
Constance That was our best one.
Roger T. Pipe That was a funny movie.
Alex Ladd Yeah, the writing was really good, very funny.
Roger T. Pipe I heard you had to trash the script and start over though.
Alex Ladd That’s not entirely true.
Roger T. Pipe You’ve shot gang bangs, all sex movies, features, pretty much everything.
Alex Ladd I have even shot transsexual movies in Brazil for Elegant Angel. I’ve done about a hundred videos in my career, maybe five of them were TS titles. To this day, people come up to me and say “you’re the guy who shoots transsexual movies.” You get labeled pretty quickly.
Roger T. Pipe Do you like shooting TS stuff?
Alex Ladd I have fun shooting them, but they aren’t what I prefer.
Roger T. Pipe Are you going to be shooting any for your new company?
Alex Ladd No. I tried shooting a couple of scenes with soft core and I really didn’t like it. It interfered with the overall feel of the scene. No soft, screw that.
Roger T. Pipe By the way, we have new talent here with us, this could be her first interview as well. Are we going to wait around to see how this new girl dances?
Alex Ladd I think we have to after what she said about her vagina. Can we call you something on tape?
Stripper Call me Cherry.
Roger T. Pipe You know as a professional, I can recommend working for Alex. He’s not a director who demands that you sleep with him to get a part in his movies.
Alex Ladd But I do insist that you sleep with Constance.
Stripper OK, no problem. I want to make a movie and send it to my ex-boyfriend.
Constance That’s not unheard of.
Alex Ladd We can shoot a movie based on reality where we meet you in a strip club, shoot a scene with you and then shoot you really sending the tape to him.
Stripper I like that idea a lot.
Roger T. Pipe (At this point, I turn off the recorder as we all decide that we have to see what she means by a “really big pussy.” After watching Cherry, Constance decides to get a lap dance and talk to her more about being in the movies. We continue.)Is that how you usually find talent?
Alex Ladd No, that is one of the strangest things that has ever happened.
Roger T. Pipe But how cool would it be if she actually calls and shoots for you?
Alex Ladd If it really does happen, I want you to be on set to do part two of this interview.
Roger T. Pipe Done deal. Constance would you shoot her?
Constance Oh yeah, she’s cute. Kind of looks like Britney Spears in a way. But with red hair.
Alex Ladd She likes redheads.
Constance That was probably one of—no, two of the best lap dances ever. She really got me into it.
Roger T. Pipe Since you said you were a fan, what sort of porn do you like?
Constance I like anime. I like girl girl stuff. Unfortunately, I'm encouraged not to shoot girl girl. I like pretty porn with no plot, like some of Andrew Blake's stuff, but I also like hardcore ass-in-your-face porn too. I could get off watching a girl in just about any situation as long as she is hot.
Roger T. Pipe Do you have any favorites?
Constance I love watching Sylvia Saint, she's perfection. But my new favorite is Belladonna. I love her beautiful ass and her energy. She is so hot. Gauge is also a blast to watch. Oh, and Britney Spears. Does she count?
Roger T. Pipe How did you get into the porn industry?
Constance Well, when Alex and I started dating, I would hang out on set with him, help him out here and there. At some point, his old production manager quit the business, so I kind of volunteered to take the position. We'vebeen a team ever since.
Roger T. Pipe Then I must ask how the two of you met.
Constance Well that's sort of a long story, but I'll give you the short version. Basically, I was dating a stripper who wanted to get a nude portfolio done, so she needed to find a photographer. Some girls I knew from my old job always spoke of this Alex guy they knew who was in porn so I asked them to put me in contact with him. I hooked my girlfriend up with Alex, and the rest is total chaos. That's the short version.
Roger T. Pipe Would you like to direct features down the line or are you sticking with the gonzo style?
Constance Hmm. Actually, I wouldn't want to do features. I don't think it's possible to direct a scripted porno properly. Even if you put the best directors with the best performers and a ton of money, in the end you get something you can't jerk off to. So what is it anyways? To me, that's just not what porno is about. I'll go as far as vignette porn, but if I’m ever gonna direct a feature, it won't be a porno.
Roger T. Pipe Anything else you want to talk about?
Constance If I think of something, I'll let you know. Oh yeah, BUY MY MOVIE! teehee.
Roger T. Pipe OK Alex, What other jobs in the industry have you had?
Alex Ladd I did foreign sales, production manager and I owned a graphics company that designed boxes for a while.
Roger T. Pipe How many titles are you going to be releasing?
Alex Ladd The first couple of months we are going to release two per month and then we hope to go to four. After about six months, we would like to go to eight. That depends on how many more directors we hire.
Roger T. Pipe Are you going to shoot any features?
Alex Ladd I don’t think so. No offense to the guys who shoot them, but I don’t really like doing features. Shooting them can be fun, but watching them bores me.
Roger T. Pipe You shot a feature for Puritan that ended up not being a feature.
Alex Ladd Yeah, that’s a prime example of what can happen when you have no control over the product. I heard it got chopped up really bad. I shot it, handed it in, and that’s what happened. It was a cool idea, I worked my ass off and they decided to chop it into a wall to wall thing.
Roger T. Pipe They left in some dialog for the final scene which makes no sense at all in context.
Alex Ladd Hopefully Puritan never put my name on that piece of junk.
Roger T. Pipe But you got to work with the Sin Twins.
Alex Ladd Everyone knows how I feel about them, they are a couple of psychotic drunks. They are lovely to look at, every man’s dream, but they were my nightmare. I have never thrown anyone off a set in my life and I threw them off on the third day. They came back the next day and apologized.
Roger T. Pipe You shot them in two movies.
Alex Ladd We shot “Sin Twins” for Sin City and this Puritan movie. No offense to the writer, since I’m comparing two pieces of his work, but the Puritan movie had the better script. It was that kind of bullshit that made me put my money where my mouth is. I love what I do, but I hate the politics. I’m not a good kiss ass and I don’t want to be. Sin City wanted me to be a personality, I don’t want to do that. That’s not me. I don’t want to be a bad boy. When did it become cool to be an asshole? I’m just a nice guy and I’m happy with myself.
Roger T. Pipe What do you think you’ve learned from the people you’ve worked for over the years that you hope to carry over into your position as company owner?
Alex Ladd Owning your own product is the number one thing. Only a few companies do that and they are geniuses for it. All that does is guarantee better product. You are going to do what you have to in order to make the product better. When you pay a guy fifteen hundred bucks to direct, he doesn’t give a shit. He’s going to go find a couch and sleep. Either that or he’s going to rip you off.
Roger T. Pipe You have three directors currently, are you looking to expand that number?
Alex Ladd We have talked with a few people, I don’t want to name any names at this point, but we’re looking for some directors who fit in with the team.
Roger T. Pipe What about contract girls?
Alex Ladd That’s not something we’d be looking for. I like a variety and with a contract girl, you’re stuck shooting her over and over.
Roger T. Pipe Do you have a company web site?
Alex Ladd We have one coming soon, www.dvsx.com
Roger T. Pipe Anything else?
Alex Ladd Just this last thing. This is the first interview I’ve given about the new company. It’s an exclusive for you.
Roger T. Pipe Thank you, and thank you on behalf of the readers. We’ll be looking for DVSX movies soon.
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