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Nicole Sheridan Interview

1/6/06

Nicole Sheridan Voodoo, Nicole Sheridan

As a kid, she wanted to be a princess. "Every year I had something new -- I wanted to be a firefighter, ballerina, psychologist, teacher...

"In highschool, I was in the gifted program. The majority of my friends were conservative, intelligent, not nerds, but good kids. I was also a cheerleader. I had a couple of friends in the jock crowd. I'm the type of person who has one or two close friends. I'm not a big crowd person.

"After highschool, I went to college. I have two degrees -- Human Development and Industrial Organizational Psychology.

"I started stripping in college to pay for my second degree. Waitressing wasn't cutting it. I started doing bikini grams. Then I knew I could make more money doing nude dancing. It was the normal progression from internet to magazines to film.

"I did my first mainstream porn film in February 2000."

Nicole has been married to Voodoo for five years. They've been together six.

"I love the freedom [of porn], that every day is something different. Whether you have a good day or a bad day, it was still different from the day before. I get bored easily, so I constantly need different stimulation.

"What I don't like about the porn industry is that it teaches people some bad habits sexually. I've noticed lately these 18 and 19-year old girls coming into porn and you can tell when you do a scene with them that they've learned everything they know about sex from watching porn. You don't have sex the same way on film as you do in your bedroom. There are probably a lot of guys out there who learned how to give oral through watching porn and their women are probably sorely disappointed because you don't do it [she imitates licking from the side, opened up to the camera] like this.

"My husband and I are talking about doing our own line and letting people go. We'd tell them, 'Don't do it porno style. I don't care if I don't get to see every bit of penetration. I want it to be real.'

"I don't want a wife to see a crazy anal piledriver and have her feel like she could never live up to that with her husband.

"I knew when I did my first movie that I could never undo that. So I decided that if I was going to do this, I was going to do it the right way and make it a career. At that time, I thought it would affect my life moreso than it has.

"There are people I get s--- from and there are people who will find out what we do and think it scandalous, but the majority of people we hang out with, when they find out what we do, they're totally cool with it.

"We're the aunt and uncle in the neighborhood to all the kids. The parents know what we do and they're cool with it.

"I was afraid when I got in that I would be viewed as a negative role model. But I think [the parents] can look at what we do and see that we keep it separate from who we are as people. We're responsible with our money and we're not on drugs.

"I don't think being in the industry affects our marriage. The key to our marriage is that we communicate. We've never lied to each other. That's a promise we made on day one. If we have an issue, we don't go to our friends and bitch about it, we deal with it together. Any issues we've had haven't had to do with the industry."

"What are your life goals?"

"To be happy. To skydive in every country with a drop-zone. I've been shooting production stills for two years. I'm spending more time behind my camera. I've gotten good reviews on my work. I've been published in The New York Times Sunday Magazine (I shoot for Playgirl and the NYT was doing a series on erotica for women and I had done a series on Jean Val Jean, and they chose that picture). I'd like to take that out of the Adult world. I don't know if it is too late for that."