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4/20/06 Anthony Petkovich, Francesca Le, Tom Byron Anthony Petkovich, Francesca Le Anthony, Francesca Anthony, Francesca Francesca Le Francesca Le Francesca Le Krystal Summers, Francesca Le Krystal Summers (Francesca's cousin) Francesca Le Francesca Le, Sunny Lane Francesca, Sunny Sunny Lane, Mike Ramone, Francesca Le Sunny, Mike, Francesca Sunny, Mike, Francesca Sunny, Mike, Francesca After the awards, Anthony Petkovich (Editor of Adam Film World) introduces me to Francesca Le, 35, and as beautiful a woman as I've ever met. She operates LeWood Productions with her husband Mark Wood. Francesca does about five movies a year for her own company. She started in porn in 1990 and worked for three years. "After three years it wasn't fun for me, so I left." For the next eight years, she did wrestling, fetish modeling, bondage, stripping, etc. Anything but sex. She went to work for Extreme Associates in sale in 2001 and lasted a year before returning to performing. Luke: "Why?" Francesca: "We launched our own company." She met her hubby Mark Wood in 2002. Luke: "How did you find the industry had changed?" Francesca: "Scary. I don't know if it is for the best. The girls are lazy. It's very robotic. People are in the business for fame and fortune and not for fun. In the early nineties, we were ----ing everybody for free. It was fun. "Everybody wants to be the next Jenna. There's not going to be another Jenna. "People today don't want to work. It's no fun for anybody. "In the early nineties, we did all features. We were on twelve hour sets. You were doing a three hour anal scene." Luke: "What do you love and what do you hate about the industry you are a part of?" Francesca: "I hate the astronomical rates we pay. I love the freedom and the nice people I meet. They're doing it because they're freaky and they want to have a good time." Luke: "How do you reflect on how it's affected your life?" Francesca: "It's affected my life wonderfully." Mike Ramone comes over and playfully warns her about me. "What's he asking you?" he says. Francesca: "He's asking me in-depth questions, the kind that AVN doesn't ask me. He gets to the core of my soul." She laughs. "I have a good life. I'm married to a man who's open. We have a sexually free relationship." Luke: "In the civilian world?" Francesca: "I try not to say. I'm quiet. I live a quiet life. "We shoot at our house while the neighbors hold Bible studies." Francesca says she stopped doing drugs at 25. She says the talent has changed. "It used to be you had to be a certain class of girl, like me, Nikki Dial... We were up against Victoria Paris, Ashlyn Gere, Savannah, Racquel Darrian, Christy Canyon. Porn now, I don't know why they want the girl next door. I want my porn girls to be porn stars. Big hair. Nice taut bodies. "When they opened the door to the girl next door, to the teen phenomenon, they let girls come in who would never have worked [in the early nineties]. They're more sloppy." Luke: "More tattooed and pierced." Francesca agrees. "And braces. I look at them and think, 'What makes you think you can do porn? I don't know who told you you can do porn, but OK." Luke: "What were the rates you were charging in 1992?" Francesca: "$300-$400 for a boy-girl scene. Anal was about $500. [Now it's more than double that.]" |
