WEBVTT - Chapter 4: The Valley Goes Gonzo 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:07.360 My sex drive took over. Is that so hard for 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:10.240 you to believe? I mean, I'm good at a lot 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.640 of things, sex being one of them, so I think 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:17.279 I've certainly succeeded at doing that. And there's very few 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.120 people that have Jenna Jameson. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.959 To do porn shoot things isn't always nice. You do 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.320 everything in front of a camera, and you can never 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:32.760 forget about that you're professionally in the first place. In 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.879 my private life, I only do those things which I 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.920 want to do with my partner, Racosa Frede performer. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.760 Many people think porno people are so bad and that 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.760 professionals are so good, and most professional people that I've 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:53.880 met are pieces of shit. They're child molesteds, big bullshit people. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.440 Everyone watches porn and then looks down on it. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:05.760 Te t Boy, Welcome to General World. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:19.120 Welcome back to Jena World. I'm your host, Molly Lambert. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.880 This is episode four. The Valley goes Gonzo. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.360 The moment you become a porn star, you will always 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:34.920 be a porn star for the rest of your life. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.920 Jenna Massoli has chosen her new stage name Jenna Jamison 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.360 and met a modeling scout who says she can get 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:46.160 her into Penthouse magazine. Jenna has done one pro photoshoot before, 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.920 for the Biker Bible, Easy Riders magazine. On the cover 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.160 of Easy Riders, Jenna sports a long red wig with bang, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.520 a velvet cross choker, a silver chain mail bra, black 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.280 leather short, and black final thigh high boots. She looks 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.120 like red Sonia. She's posing with a blonde model who 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.680 drapes a leg over the headlight while Jenna straddles the 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.600 wheel of a motorcycle that's been painted with flames and 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:16.760 skeleton kings. Inside are more glam shots and separate press 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.320 pics of Tommy Lee and Nikki six from Motley Crue 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:27.280 on motorcycles with an interview at a house in Las Vegas, 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.919 Jenna is modeling under her new stage name Jenna Jamison 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.160 at a photoshoot set up by Julia Parton. Julia directs 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.800 her through a range of poses, showing her how to 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.280 position her body so it reads on film how she 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.600 wants it to. Jenna feels herself straining to look sexy 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.760 and is sure it looks bad. Even though she's been 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.360 nearly nude on stage. She feels way more vulnerable and 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.560 exposed on camera. Then she gets a call from a 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.480 photographer named Susie Randall. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:04.440 I try not to think about myself. Maybe I'm atrel blazer. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.000 I was always looking for the best. 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:08.400 You outwork the. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:13.639 Men, you out chom everybody. Susie Randall, photographer. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.280 Now we must go to swinging London in the late 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.840 nineteen sixties, when sexual liberation came to England and pulled 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:25.840 its pantaloons down, creating Austin powers. The new sexual freedoms 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.919 make repressed British people very I'll just say it, howny baby. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.200 Susie Randall is a London lass living hand to mouth 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.240 working as a nurse. She spots an ad looking for 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.800 amateur nude models and ditches nursing for what the British 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:44.520 called glamour modeling. She gets cast as an o pair 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.320 in the Eric Rohmer film Love in the Afternoon, But 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.800 French new wave movies and nude modeling don't pay well. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.800 In aren't staple. There's no clear path from sexy modeling 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:59.240 leading into other work because Love Island hasn't been invented yet. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:01.600 I go in through the back door. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.080 I jump the line. 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.720 So Susie Randall decides to get behind the camera too. 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.240 She uses a remote control camera to take artsy pictures 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.760 of herself spread eagle and sells them to Hustler. She 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.040 becomes a talent scout for new models who takes test 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:22.039 shots of them. Her big discovery is a Norwegian model 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.279 named Lillian Muhler, who becomes the star music video girl 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.359 for Rod Stewart's disco slam hit Do You Think I'm Sexy? 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.200 And she plays the pe teacher in the Van Halen 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:32.360 video for hot Ford Teacher. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.320 When I started Playboy, what I was interested in was 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.760 the romantic connection between the sexes rather than buddies in 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.159 the locker rope. A woman's input is key. If you 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:46.920 don't have that in mind, then you're going to be 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.120 spending a lot of time in the locker rope alone. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:56.120 Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.200 In nineteen seventy five, Susie Randall moves to la with 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.440 her South Africa and husband, who writes masculinist New Age 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.800 books like The Dominant Man, The Pecking Order in Human Society, 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:10.920 and The Nero Prediction about ancient Roman astrology. Susie Randall 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.560 gets staffed as a full time photographer for Playboy, working 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.000 under a female editor named Marilyn mo Grabowski. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:24.000 The plus side is I identify with some of these girls. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.600 This is Miss America to a lot of girls. I 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.680 have a rapport with them. They know I'm in charge, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.159 and they know I'm the boss, but they know I 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.120 identify with them. Mo Grobowski Playboy. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.360 Mo Grobowski is a Roman Catholic girl from Santa Monica 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.200 who starts working for Playboy in the sixties and over 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.480 a decade becomes its West Coast photo editor. Geez a 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.680 nineteen seventies LA woman who resembles Joni Mitchell and Diane Keaton. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.760 Thin and brawlis with long, straight, blonde, middle parted hair, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:02.520 blue eyes, and no makeup. It is Moe Grabowski, not 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.440 Hugh Hefner, who scouts Playboy models like Dorothy Stratton and 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.680 Pamela Anderson into doing Playboy. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.960 I said, Pam, you can be a big celebrity. All 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.479 you have to do is go after it. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:17.680 Men. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.960 It held Pam down for a long time. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.039 Women like Moe Grabowski and Susie Randall are behind the 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.039 scenes at Playboy, doing a lot of the real work 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:32.280 and insulating the magazine against charges of boys club misogyny. 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.919 I add the best gimmick in the business, a sexy 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.320 gil taking pictures of sexy gills. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.200 Susie Randall also works with musicians. She takes a very 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.120 horny photo of British singer Robert Palmer and shoots an 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.480 album cover for the jazz vocalese group The Manhattan Transfer. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.640 In nineteen seventy six, Susie Randall falls out with Playboy 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.080 over money and starts her own production. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.800 Studio, which is what she's still doing. 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.560 When Na meets her in the nineteen nineties. After being 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.200 sent the Julia Parton touch shots, Susie Randall rings Jenna 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:21.600 to book her for a photoshoot in Los Angeles. Though 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.000 in nineteen ninety one, Jenna flies to Los Angeles wearing 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.200 cowboy boots, men's boxer short, a white tank top with 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:29.800 no bra, and a baseball cap. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.480 She swooped at Lax. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.400 By a makeup artist named Emma Nixon, who also models 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.440 under the name Nicole in Easy Writers and The Letters 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.000 to Penthouse video anthology. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:46.600 After Emma finished my face, I hardly recognize myself. I 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.080 looked for the first time in my life like a woman, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:56.440 and that woman appeared sexy confident and sophisticated. She was 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.520 Jenna Jamison, and I liked her all lot lot more 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.160 than Jenna Masoli. 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.920 Makeup helps to create the image of Jenna Jamison beautiful 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.040 and urbane, but also cool and rock and roll, leather 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:18.920 and lace. The signature Jenna Jamison look is black eyeliner, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:24.440 smoky eyeshadow, and a cinnamon lipliner with nude lipgloss. Emma 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.160 brings Jenna to meet Susie Randall on set at a 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.760 house in the valley, and she's taken to a setup 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.360 of a bed with satin sheets. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.920 As a photographer, you only as good as your model feels. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.560 Susie runs Jenna through a litany of poses and outfits 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.240 at a breakneck pace. Jenna finds it hard to both 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.480 hold positions and relax her face to look alluring at 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:55.360 the same time. Afterwards, Emma drives Jenna to beautiful downtown Burbank, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.600 where she's put up in a shitty motel by the 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.880 five Freeway. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.360 I've always loved being on stage since I was a 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.480 little little girl, and I think that's what drew me 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.280 to this industry. I started out just doing magazines. When 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.000 I was in college. I had never even been in 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:18.000 a strip club. My father's a dentist. I mean, I 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.720 came from this really well off family and this was 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.080 not what we would normally consider a career opportunity. 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.400 Nicki Tyler performer. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.040 On the second day of the shoot, a model named 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.600 Nicki Tyler strikes up a chat with Jenna. Nicki Tyler 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.920 is a five toot seven Sagittarius with a blonde surfer 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:44.000 girl look. She's born Nicole Madison, grows up well off 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:48.480 in Marin County and enrolls at UC Santa Barbara. Then 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:49.760 her dog gets sick. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.840 I didn't want to ask my parents for any more 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.600 money because they had paid for my car and I 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.600 had credit cards, and they had paid for me to 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.760 go to school, and I was totally taken care of. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.640 And I was like, they are gonna die when I 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.680 tell them that I need fifteen hundred bucks like now, 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.920 because she was on IVS and I was just not 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.120 gonna let this little dog go. And I answered this 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.720 ad that said bikini, nude and lagerie modelin and I 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.320 was like, I will never take my top off. This 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.800 is my theory on that I think a lot of 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.200 it is. I just didn't think I was pretty enough. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.640 And I think a lot of the jealousy that goes 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.240 on in this industry and women not liking women in 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.760 this industry is that they're jealous that they're not desired 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:37.440 that way, even though they could be. Our society is 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.560 so screwed up with the whole body image thing. Women 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:41.840 don't know what looks good. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.880 She leaves UCSB to transfer into cal State Northridge Clinical 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.920 psychology program, but when she gets to LA she drops 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:56.000 out of school to try acting instead. She appears in 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.640 These Slobs Versus Snobs comedy Zoo Radio co directed by 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.680 Jay Roach, who will go on to direct Austin Powers. 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.800 Yeah Baby. Nicki Tyler lives in a nice suburban house 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.000 in the Valley neighborhood of Sherman Oaks. She drives to 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.920 Van Nuys Boulevard to pick up copies of the magazines 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.960 that feature her first nude layouts. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.319 I couldn't get the balls up to go to the newsstand. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.280 I was like, really uncomfortable with this, and I sat 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.040 in my car, going, NICKI, if you can pose in them, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.120 you can buy him. And I saw this old man 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.520 working and I thought, Okay, I'll go over there now 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.840 and around the corner comes this cute young guy and 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.640 he goes, what's a cute girl like you doing in 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:39.640 a men's magazine? 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:41.280 He worked there. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:46.120 We ended up getting married. I was young. I had 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:47.000 just turned twenty one. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.319 Nicki is living with her newsy husband when she invites 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.440 Jenna to stay with them at their nice, big house. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.959 Jenna says yes. Nicki is the first person to make 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:09.599 Jenna feel welcome in la when Jenna arrives in the 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.240 valley in nineteen ninety three. It's the pulsating epicenter of 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.720 pornography for its proximity to resources used by the other 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:21.160 film industry, soundstages and a constant pool of aspiring talent, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.000 as well as office parks and warehouses from the mostly 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:32.559 departed aerospace industry long before the pornography industry settles there. 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.840 The valley is known for its cycle of financial booms 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.600 and busts, mirrored in its climate by severe droughts and 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:44.880 extreme flooding. California gains American statehood in eighteen fifty during 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.400 the Gold Rush, and there's a financial boom in the 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.520 valley raising cattle on ranches for prospectors to eat until 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:56.080 the gold rush ends and beef collapses. Now worthless, ranches 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:00.920 are resold with promises of verdant trees dripping citrus fruits. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.880 But there are pesky plagues, a flood, a drought, another drought, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:12.360 a smallpox epidemic, and a plague of locusts. Nathaniel West's 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.280 The Day of the Locusts is not about this particular 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.960 locust plague, but he does depict La as besieged with 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:23.280 constant plagues of fortune seekers lured in by fantasy images. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.680 As railroads connect the valley to the rest of America, 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.880 there's a boom in wheat that ends when supply starts 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.880 to exceed demand. In nineteen oh five, La taps into 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.280 water to the Owens Valley. To get access to the water, 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.240 the valley must agree to annexation by the city of 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.240 Los Angeles. The next big boom is the aerospace industry, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.120 and the valley fills with aircraft factories and new housing tracks. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.040 As the film industry develops, the valley becomes a backlot 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.880 for studios to shoot cheaply. In in Gone with the Wind, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.000 when Scarlett O'Hara vows that she'll never go hungry again, 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.000 she's not in Georgia, but in the valley Seemi Hills area, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.760 where Rocket Dyne tested liquid propellant, rocket engines and nuclear reactors. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.160 In the nineteen seventies, the porn industry and its studio 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.920 system take root in the valley, utilizing its existent network 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:25.760 of office parks and sound stages. By the time Jenna 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.760 arrives in the valley in nineteen ninety one, it's been 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.840 the geographic center of the porn industry for two decades. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.440 Jenna sleeps on the couch at Nicky Tyler's Sherman Oaks house. 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.680 She'll always be my number one girl. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.040 One night, Nicki Tyler sends her boyfriend to their bedroom 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.400 so she can spend quality time with Jenna, and they 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.600 end up fooling around on the couch. Jenna says this 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.040 was the only time they had sex, although Nicki has 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.960 also claimed they were friends with benefits for years. Done 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.600 with her LA work trip and a couple and richer 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.760 for it, Jenna begrudgingly returns to Las Vegas. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.240 There was something about Vegas that was poison. Every day 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.920 I spent there, I slowly lost my grip on reality. 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.520 It seemed as if the better and more exciting LA 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.160 became the worse. I made Las Vegas for myself. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.000 When Jenna gets back to Vegas, she's determined to level 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:30.280 up her living situation. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:30.640 There. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.520 She has a box filled with cash that she's been 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.160 saving from stripping, but when she tries to dip into it, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.200 she finds it's been depleted. Her boyfriend Jack admits he 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.320 took most of her savings about thirty grand and lost 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:48.000 it gambling at the Golden Nugget. Jenna feels trapped in 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.040 their shitty apartment, which has become a metaphor for their 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:58.280 shitty relationship. Things continue to deteriorate into constant fighting, toxic codependency, 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.760 and cheating paranoia that makes her feel insecure and depressed. 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.040 With her money all gone and no way out, Jenna 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.360 does a line of meth for the first time in 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:13.640 six months. When Jenna can't get hold of anyone and 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.920 her dad's for a few days, she heads over there 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:20.440 and finds his house abandoned. She spirals, worrying that her 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.920 family has been killed. Maybe her brother pissed off the 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.640 wrong drug dealer. Maybe her dad's enemies and the mob came. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:28.640 Back for him. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.040 Even if they are still alive, She's distressed that they 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:37.720 didn't even tell her they were leaving town. When her 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.000 phone does ring, it's Susie Randall asking her to come 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.120 back to La and shoot more photos. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.080 She flies out for a week and goes through the motions. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.160 When she comes home, there's a message that her dad 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.280 and brother had to suddenly blow down and we'll touch 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.160 base when they can. Her dad finally calls to say 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.960 that the family, meaning him, her brother Tony, Tony's wife Selena, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.120 and Jenna's grandma are on the lamb. Her dad checks 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.520 in every couple weeks from a payphone in a new state. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.880 Jenna doesn't know exactly what they're fleeing from, whether it's 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.640 real or a delusion created by her brother's meth field paranoias. 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.120 In a way, it doesn't really matter. Her family, one 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.800 of the final things tethering her to the state of Nevada, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:25.280 have flown the coop, and so Jenna starts going to 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:41.240 La more and more often. Nikki and Jenna go to 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.760 the Van Nuy's newsstands so Jenna can see her photos 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:49.440 in magazines like Sherry, Hustler and High Society. Jenna notices 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.960 that she's being credited under random names like Daisy Holiday, 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:58.040 names that are not Jenna Jamison. They also have interviews 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.800 about how horny and wild she is. She never did 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:06.120 turned out by some ghostwriters. Through modeling and more stripping 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.320 at The Crazy Horse, Too, she makes back the thirty 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.120 grand that Jack lost at the Tables. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.520 I rented a small, high end two bedroom apartment and 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.080 a skyscraper in Las Vegas called the Crystal Towers. 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:28.080 It was beautiful. 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.480 The foyer had black and white checkered tile, the bedroom 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.320 was immense, and the balcony overlooked an outdoor pool. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.840 When Jenna World returns, Jenna makes a name for herself 0:18:42.960 --> 0:19:00.320 in Los Angeles. Oh my God, welcome back to Jenna Worlds. Finally, 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:04.240 Jenna has a nice, stable place to live, earned with 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.840 her own hard work. She invites Jack to move in 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:08.360 with her there. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:10.240 Whoops. 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.600 He pays his half of the rent and likes having 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:17.840 a centerfold girlfriend. She wants him to feel dependent on 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.359 her and hopes that having a nicer, less meth Danish 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.840 place will give him reasons to stay home at night. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.399 She's also out growing The Crazy Horse too. She is 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.280 tired of playing the sweet, innocent cheerleader for a bunch 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.520 of drunk assholes every night. She doesn't like when the 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.240 patron's mouth off and call her a bitch, even though 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.959 she's getting paid for it, so she hangs up her 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:54.359 pleasers and decides to focus on modeling. On her trips 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.560 to La, Jenna detoxes, she finds that crystal meth doesn't 0:19:58.600 --> 0:19:59.600 mix well with work. 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:01.600 She wants to be on her. 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:07.000 Best, most lucid behavior at photoshoots, but it's practical vanity too. 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.399 Meth makes her unconsciously grind her teeth and strain her 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:14.040 facial muscles. She doesn't want to look all fucking tweaked 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:25.399 out in her pictures because she needs them to sell. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.879 But whenever Jenna goes back to the Crystal Towers and Jack, 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:33.359 she also goes back to crystal meth. As she becomes 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.840 by Western, going back and forth between Vegas and La, 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:42.439 the contrast becomes stark. She's either in nightmarish withdrawals or 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.840 manic relapse, and she still doesn't trust Jack. She gets 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.679 a bad gut feeling about a hot, stacked blonde at 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:53.879 his local bar. Jenna approaches her one night lies and 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.760 says she and Jack have an open relationship, and bates 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.400 the other woman into admitting that she's fucked on Jack 0:20:59.440 --> 0:20:59.920 a little bit. 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:02.000 Then, in an. 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:06.200 Act of psychosexual self sabotage, Jenna invites the woman who 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.159 coucked her over for a threesome. Jack pretends not to 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.080 know her at first, and the moment that Jenna sees 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.320 the other girl touching Jack's dick, she flips out and 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:17.479 starts beating her up. 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:22.840 As I lay in bed each night, I imagine having 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:26.720 this other life that he knew nothing about and couldn't control, 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.600 a secret identity that would crush him if he discovered it. 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:37.680 Jenna decides to get back at Jack for his crimes lying, cheating, 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.280 stealing her money, and gambling it away. She's going to 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.840 start fucking other men, and she's going to do it 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:50.520 where everyone else can see on camera. Jenna has several 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.800 good motivations for getting into adult films. She wants to 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.440 make more money, she wants to hurt her cheating boyfriend's feelings, 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.919 and she genuinely believes she'll be grated it. So Jenna 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:08.920 approaches a new frontier adult films. Jenna wants to start 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:13.040 her career at the tradway with softcore lesbian scenes. She's 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:15.520 a fan of a director named Andrew Blake, who's known 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:18.880 for his gauzy, sophisticated eroticism and worked with her hero 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:23.199 Savannah Andrew. Blake books Jenna with her friend Nicki Tyler 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:27.119 for a feature called Fantasy Women. He films Jenna and 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:29.800 Nikki kissing and touching each other for a scene called 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:34.640 Afternoon Seduction. Jenna also has a solo masturbation scene called 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:39.360 Gallery Exhibition. Shooting goes well enough to boost her confidence, 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:43.439 but it drops when Blake doesn't ask her. Back in 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:46.800 the nineties, there was an established path for female performers, 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:50.800 starting with nude pinups and progressing to solo videos and 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:54.359 girl girl scenes. Some girls never do scenes with male 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:56.639 performers at all and make a lot of money just 0:22:56.680 --> 0:23:00.920 doing solo and girl girl hardcore sex facts in male 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:05.879 female scenes start with blowjobs, then vaginal sex, then anal sex, 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:10.320 then multiple partners, and finally various combinations of all of 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:15.359 the above, like gangbang scenes. The ideal scenario is a 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:19.280 slow build, where a screen debut creates audience appetite for 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:22.159 more content, which they roll out with a few movies 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:26.120 a year, but most performers can't afford to turn down 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:28.399 work in the window they're being offered it and end 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:30.880 up shooting as much as they can, which can lead 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:33.800 to burnout. Many are in and out of porn within 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:37.840 a year or two after running the gauntlet. Jenna doesn't 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:40.320 want to blitz through the steps too quickly, but she's 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:43.439 ready for a swing at the big leagues. She books 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:46.119 her first hardcore shoot for a series called Up and 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:49.240 Comers you can guess how that's spelled with a guy 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:56.560 named Randy West, as part of an industry trend called Gonzo. 0:23:56.880 --> 0:23:59.560 When porn moves to video in the eighties, there's also 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:03.320 a ship in content. In nineteen eighty three, Sony puts 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:08.720 out the Betamax camcorder. Before the camcorder, video cameras connected 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:12.200 with a cord to a recording base, but the camcorder 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:15.879 eliminates the cord and the bass, making the camera operator 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:20.080 free to move anywhere in space. Camcorders hit the home 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:21.200 market that year. 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:26.120 To me, it was freedom. It was about going out 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:28.600 with a camera in public and seeing what would happen. 0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:35.199 I enjoyed it, and it was also hot. Jamie gillis performer. 0:24:37.280 --> 0:24:41.359 Camquorders allow for a new kind of visual immediacy, a 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:45.960 proof of alleged realness handheld video leads to cinema veritay. 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:50.760 In nineteen eighty nine, a porn actor named Jamie Gillis 0:24:50.800 --> 0:24:53.879 innovates a new kind of adult movie where Gillis and 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:57.720 a cameraman named Duck Dumont cruise around San Francisco's North 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:01.080 Beach area in a rented limo, picking up random men 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:05.200 to have sex on camera with actress Renee Morgan. It's 0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:08.640 called On the Prowl, and it's the basis for the 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:11.800 On the Lookout part of Boogie Knights, where roller girl 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:13.959 kicks the shit out of a guy who recognizes her 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:18.840 from high school. On the Lookout is the depressing third 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:21.920 act low point of Boogie Knights before the surprise, happy ending, 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:26.520 but Gillis claims On the Prowl was an exciting development 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:29.880 in porn, which is always seeking better ways to show 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:35.320 sexual spontaneity. Gillis helped pioneer a successful series called Dirty 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:39.320 Debutantes that's specialized in breaking new girls into the industry. 0:25:40.960 --> 0:25:43.240 I had been in the business already for many years, 0:25:43.520 --> 0:25:46.240 and I just said, oh my god, they're so boring 0:25:46.800 --> 0:25:49.960 these stupid movies with the stupid scripts. So I said, 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:51.679 let's just take a girl and bring her out and 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:53.720 find somebody who wants to fuck her and. 0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:57.040 Is excited about it. I literally brought girls out to. 0:25:57.040 --> 0:25:58.760