On Set With Gigi

4/4/05

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First scene of the day was Gigi, 20, and Trevor Zen (Lezley's husband). But I missed it. I got lost (I ignored Dr. X's directions and just tried to feel my way with the Thomas Guide) and drove up a steep dirt road, with two-to-three foot gullies, until my car stalled out and tires spun. I ended up backing down the road, fearful I would tip over the side of the hill.

The shooting house was across the fence and down the hill. An hour late, I eventually found my way to the Woodland Hills house where I'd been twice in 1999.

Walking up the hill to the set, I'm passed by blonde Nicki Hunter driving out. She worked the second scene of the day with John West.

Daisy Fuentez was supposed to work with Gigi in scene three but Daisy doesn't show. She doesn't answer calls.

I hear Lee Stone (or is it Evan Stone who dates Syren) is the highest paid male talent. He'll make up to $700 per scene. He always shows up early and does a good job.

Lee Stone lives with retired porn star Aria.

A ballerina, Gigi likes the Elton John song Tiny Dancer.

I've met Gigi three times and every time she's been perky.

Saturday was her two-week anniversary in porn. After today, she'll have done 19 scenes.

Duke: "It hasn't taken the smile off your face."

Gigi: "Never. I wake up every bit as happy as I go to bed. We have proof of this. We had 'Life in a day of Gigi today.' I woke up at 6:30am, had my shower. The camera followed me everywhere. I'm just a smiley happy person."

The director Rick Davis is hobbling around on a broken ankle.

Duke: "Should you be walking on that?"

Gigi: "No. Does he care? No."

She's registered with Naughty Talent.

Duke: "How long until you get jaded?"

Gigi: "Never.

"Most of the people I've met in the industry have been so sweet. When they find out you're new, they help you out. My first scene was a boy-boy-girl. They took me in and worked me over. After that, I got a feel for what I could do."

Duke: "What have you found most challenging?"

Gigi: "The long days. I'm not a napper."

Duke: "Don't you get sore?"

Gigi: "My cookie gets sore. I think I've found the solution. I don't use lube. Just a lot of spit. I think I'm allergic to lube."

Duke: "What does it take for you to have an orgasm?"

Gigi: "Clitoral stimulation. Not penetration. Just vibration on the clit."

Duke: "Anything surprise you?"

Gigi: "Penis sizes. I get nervous. I'm a very little girl. Sometimes I get scared that it's not going to get in, but I haven't had that problem yet. When they're bigger, they're usually nicer.

"It's not so much that they will hit a wall. It's my diameter. I have to really breathe to open it. If it's big, we'll have to work out before the scene."

Duke: "How do you like kissing strangers?"

Gigi: "That's really hard for me. I think kissing is an intimate thing. I try not to kiss on camera. Of course it happens and you deal with it and you let it go. Kissing is more for my personal life. It's a lot easier to kiss girls on camera. I like men more. Therefore it has more meaning."

Gigi is a non-exclusive contract girl with Cherry Boxxx.

Duke: "What things have surprised you about the industry?"

Gigi: "How easy it is. I'd never been around the industry before. I thought it was going to be a lot different. I thought it was going to be gross. I thought women weren't going to be respected. It's not like that. It's just the opposite of what everyone thinks. You find these people who talk bad about the industry and you can tell they've never been around the industry. It's nothing like what they think it is. It is so open. You can talk to people a lot easier. You can be yourself. You don't have to hide anything. It's a lot easier and safer than people think it is."

Duke: "How has your time in the industry changed you?"

Gigi: "I've opened up. I used to be shy about my sexual life. Now I go home and talk about scenes and people [with her manager Tim]. Other than, I don't ever plan to change. That's what I want to push out there to the viewers -- I'm just me. I get that question a lot -- what's the difference between Gigi and [her real name]? It's just me."

Gigi has two piercings -- one on her tongue and one on her bellybutton.

Joe writes: "I was ready to fly out to California and search for Gigi. Until I saw the picture with her tongue pin (the one with her and Alexis Redd). What is it that makes these girls put those things in their mouths? Can't you spread a rumor that it was a tongue pin that gave Lea De Mae cancer?"

Duke: "How would your best friend describe you?"

Gigi: "She'd say I'm loyal. I don't pass judgment on anyone. I love everyone. I'm very friendly. I view what I want out of a friendship and that's what I try to be for everyone else. I'm very honest. I have no secrets."

Duke: "Where do you see yourself in five years?"

Gigi listed several porn ambitions. She wants to move behind the camera and produce. "It's definitely an industry I want to be in forever."

If Gigi is not in porn in five years, she'd like to be teaching dance. "I love children.

"I don't dwell on my past and I don't dwell on my future. I just live life. Everybody's gotta die. Don't worry about it. Go have fun."

Duke: "What are you scared of?"

Gigi: "I'm pretty fearless."

Duke: "Spiders?"

Gigi screams: "You got me. I'm afraid of spiders and bugs."

Duke: "I think a woman's biggest fear is that she's not worthy of love."

Gigi: "I've had that. I didn't think I was. Since I got in the industry is when I changed my mind. I think I'm very worthy of love. I'm not ready for it yet. But I've got a lot to give. I'm a kind person. I don't fight. I'm a clean person. I love to cook and clean."

Duke: "What type of man do you find attractive?"

Gigi: "They have to know what they want. They have to be driven. And funny."

Gigi is a passionate Christian. She has four tattoos and they all express Christian messages. On her lower back she has a cross with a heart and the words "Fearless - Until Fate Does No More." On her right butt cheek, a cross with a bun growing through it for unity, red for the blood that Jesus spilled, and the Chinese characters for faith, love and destiny. I have an angel on my front hip. I used to have red hair, so it is me as an angel, as my guardian angel. On my back shoulder, I have a cherub, which stands for my father, who is deceased. He sits on my shoulder and guides me through life. It says, 'Rest in peace, daddy.' The cherub has a butterfly in the palm of his hands because my dad has my life in the palm of his hands and I believe that he won't let anything happen to me."

Gigi was 17 when her father died. She got her tattoos at 18.

Justin, the cameraman, says: "I've got so many girls [coming on set today], I'm not going to have time to be nice to them."

Justin, who's mother is Jewish and father Christian, challenges Gigi: "If we're all God's children, what makes Jesus so special?"

Gigi: "He was an angel on earth."

Justin: "But we can be angels..."

Gigi: "I can give you answers for everything, and I don't get mad."

I ask Justin how long he's been in porn. He says 29 years, since he was five.

He was born in England. His birth father died on the way to the hospital. He was intoxicated and he crashed his car into a building two blocks away from the hospital.

His mother appeared in Playboy in the late 1970s. His father is the general manager of the Playboy Mansion in Bel Aire. When he was five, his mother met his stepfather. At age five, Justin started making eggs and cutting pumpkins and doing art for the Playboy Mansion. By age nine, he was a Playboy employee. He had a work permit. He had a time card.

"I was reading the Velveteen Rabbit when I was six months old," says Justin. "My mother was an English teacher and a hippie. For seven years I wasn't allowed to go to school. I already knew how to read and do math. I sat there and was bored until sixth grade.

"My [step]dad is a fulltime student."

Duke: "What's your mother's name?"

Justin: "I'm not telling. That was my biggest problem in highschool. I got suspended and expelled from school because kids would bring the magazine to school and go, 'Hey Justin!' and flash [nude pictures of Justin's mother]."

Justin would run off. He got busted for disturbing the class. "I've never seen my mother naked and I never will. I'm trained to look away now when I see a Playboy."

Justin is starting up a company to make softcore movies for Playboy. Justin's dad hooked him up with the direction connection to Hefner. Justin will call it "Bare Ass Productions."

Cherokee, the replacement for Daisy Fuentez, walks in and tells director Rick Davis: "I'll be ready in five minutes." And she is.

Tim from Naughty Talent stops by. He says that whenever he sees a cute girl at a fastfood restaurant or clothing store, he gives her his card with this line: "You make $8 an hour? I can make you $800 a day."

Tim's talent Jamie got her license at age 18. By 19, she'd had four speeding tickets.

Tim got ones for doing 90mph in a 35mph zone and 105 in a 65.

Cherokee and Gigi do their scene in the spa on the roof. Whipcream and fruit are brought into the mix.

Cherokee: "Ok toothpick girl. It's your job to eat the cream and my job to eat the pussy."

It's the first time that Gigi has worked with someone shorter than her.

Cherokee is a mother figure to some industry newcomers.

When Gigi sees Alexis Redd, she jumps into the tall redhead's arms. Gigi did Alexis's first girl-girl scene ten days ago.

I meet Thomas Hope's partner in Ecstasy Models -- William Laramie. William and Thomas have been friends for twenty years and business partners for two.

Dick Delaware swings by to do scene four. He's still bruised and sore from his fight two weeks ago. His driver got lost five times trying to find the set.

He's supposed to work with Alexis (initially it was Felecia Honey) but she doesn't have an AIDS test. Therefore, she can't work.

Asian Leila Lay comes by to do scene five (with Justin Magnum). She arrives about two hours early, as is her custom.

Gigi is scheduled to finish the day with Anthony Hardwood.