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Manuel Ferrara Interview
2003-07-24 14:23:15

Manuel comes from France and he speaks English with difficulty and a strong accent. I speak no French.

We chat for about 40-minutes, and somehow the tape of it didn't come through properly. This is what I remember:

Manuel is from France. He entered the porn industry in 1997 in a competition, which he won. He began working regularly but with condoms. In 1999, Rocco Siffredi asked Manuel to work with him. Ferrara considered this a great honor. He worked bare back for the first time.

Then he came to the US to work. Manuel says the pay is similar but it is easier to work in Los Angeles because everything is centrally located while in Europe porn production is flung out across the continent.

Manuel was born November 1, 1975.

He prefers performing to directing and editing.

He didn't feel discriminated against or hated during the Iraq war while he was in the US because he was French.

Manuel prefers rough and tumble sex. One famous director asked him not to kiss a girl during a scene so as to not smear her makeup. Manuel refused to work for the director again because it was no fun.

The thing Manuel disliked most about European porn was that it was disorganized.

Manuel finds many American porn girls too picky about their makeup and the sex acts they will do.

Hed writes on Manuel's Yahoo group:

The X-Rated Critics Organization, known as the XRCO, held it's 19th annual awards show at LA's Century Club on April 3, 2003. The awards are widely coveted by those in the adult film industry. We fans of the fast-rising international pornstar, Manuel Ferrara, were thrilled to learn that Our Boy won the 'New Stud of the Year' award, beating out such competition as Mark Ashley, Steve Holmes, Nick Manning, and Brian Pumper.

The Film of the Year was 'The Fashionistas,' the John Stagliano epic that was released to great acclaim last fall, starring Rocco Siffredi (who won the Best Actor award) and featuring Manuel the a very hot 'Behind the Red Door' sequence that comes at the climax of the movie. ('The Fashionistas' took a number of other awards, too, and any of you who have seen it already will understand why.)

In his acceptance speech, Manuel won all hearts with his trademark boyish charm, apologizing for his poor English & thanking Stagliano and other American adult movie figures for helping to advance his career.

2/27/06

Manuel Ferrara Vs Taryn Thomas

Manuel Ferrara writes on ADT: "You guys probably don't care but i just wanted to say thanks to taryn thomas for not showing up today. i'm sure the people of my crew and the guys booked for the scene today were very happy to be sent home. thanks again."

Taryn writes on ADT

1st Off for all of you in the industry that know what happen between Manuel and I a while ago know that it wasn't a pleasant situation. Sadly enough people were hurt and quit frankly so was I. And this was my reason for my hiatus over the summer. To let the situation cool down b/c I really hate drama...

So... As for my shoot yesterday that I missed... This is the first shoot I have ever flaked on in my life. The only time i miss a scene was when I have been sick and they were canceled. Now I am sure you all want to know why I missed my shoot right? Ok well the night b4 the shoot I went out to get my mind off things. Once I got home to go to sleep I took my anxiety medication and it knocked me out. Since I am still on antibiotics for my bronchitis it put me out. It took my friend banging on my door to wake me at midnight last night.

Look there is no excuse for me to flake a shoot. I am NOT that type of person. After all I was a SPIEGLER GIRL and still am in my heart! But this situation is going to be fixed. I am paying a cancellation fee to Manuel. So he can stop crying like a little baby and leaving me nasty messages!

The moderator Hardware locked both threads, saying: "We're all done, folks. Go over to [Lukeisback.com] or some other "reliable source" for more cheap gossip."

As opposed to expensive gossip? As opposed to the more weighty matters that Hardware allows to be discussed? How reliable are the matters that Hardware allows to be discussed? How does he know how reliable they are? How reliable a source is Hardware?

Gossip is what rushes in to fill the gaps in people's knowledge.

AVN's Mike Ramone writes:

Indeed. As someone who's had threads locked over there, I can safely say yet again that ADT's "no flaming" policy, while perhaps reasonable in principle, is absolutely inconsistent in practice. As you know, they recently locked a perfectly good, entertaining brawl between me and my fave sparring partner, Tod, deleting my response, but leaving his original slam at me intact! Go figure. And then of course, they infamously kicked Jewel De'Nyle off the board a few years ago for daring to tell another poster - oh, no! - "bite me," but somehow saw fit to leave the "K" word posted in another thread, arguing, despite my protests, that it was used in a "joking" manner. Huh?

On top of their glaring inconsistency, the ADT brain trust apparently doesn't understand that public flaming brawls, like the one between Manuel and Taryn, are immensely more entertaining than the lowest common denominator discussions that are ADT's stock-in-trade, such burning topics of the day as (to cite a few current ones), "Julia Bond's Ass is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS," "Scars on Jasmine Tame's boob" and "Best Eve Lawrence bouncing scenes." Very heady stuff, people. Finally, in closing, exactly who does the apparently humorless, self-important Hardware think he is, censoring two big stars like Manuel and Taryn?