One of porn's three best screenwriters, if not the best, Jace Rocker also directs on occasion. He made many flicks with his ex-wife Britt Morgan but he directed the farce La Femme Vanessa on his own. AVN says the flick combines "Spy vs. Spy," "James Bond" and "Rocky and Bullwhinkle."

"Rick Masters is the nerdy scientist who has created the secret rocket fuel formula that everybody wants to get their hands on. Excellent comedy performances by all, with a top sex performance by Jordan Lee." (AVN 97)

Jim Enright directed 1995's Gangbusters. "Writer Jace Rocker was so busy cramming in the sorry schtick that he forgot to leave room for the sex." (AFW 97)

3/25/01

I spent Sunday on the set of James DiGiorgio's latest epic Succubus.

Jace Rocker's ex-wife Britt Morgan, a porn star from 1986-92, until she divorced Jace and left porn, shoots behind the scenes footage for the DVD version.

In his X-Rated Videotape Star Index, Pat Riley writes about Britt: "Not too good looking blonde who seems to take it up the butt without any problems. Small tits. Older looking."

Jim: "Jace is a five time AVN Best Screenwriter award winner. Do you think I said, 'Hey Jace, what do you think of my script?' I couldn't even say that to him. First, it puts me in an inferior position to even ask that question..."

Jace: "When you tell people that you've won five screenplay awards, they always say, 'These things have scripts?' Jim talked yesterday about his 36-page script... My last one [Dead Men Don't Wear Rubbers] for New Sensations was 52 pages. He said, 'Fifty two pages, how could you do that?' I said, 'I've been doing this for 15 years...'

"New Sensations is the only company I've worked for when I went in and said, 'This is what I need.' They said 'Here, take it. Whatever you want.' Amazing. Every other company I've worked for, there were some restrictions.

"The budget was $43k. My biggest budget ever.

"I did about 18 shows for Metro. And it seemed that every time I did a show for them, I got [verbally] beat up afterwards. Always some kind of nitpicking.

"There was somebody at Metro who had a thing about power. No matter what you did, it was never good enough. Even when I did these great shows that got great reviews and awards... You'd walk in the office and get nitpicked to death."

Jim DiGiorgio to Jace: "Don't say anything you're going to regret. He takes it down word for word."

Luke to Jace: "Did you get paid on time?"

Jace laughs. "I got paid. It was an experience that I wouldn't want to do again."

Luke: "Did they ever threaten you and your family?"

Jace laughs: "No."

Jim wonders at the comparatively good relationship between Jace and his ex-wife Britt Morgan, the former porn star.

Jim: "I can barely be in the same state as my ex-wife."

Jace: "Britt and I had a strong relationship. If anything, us working in the pornography business made it stronger. There were outside influences..."

Britt: "He rode in with me on my naked back."

Britt laughs. "He hates that line."

Britt and Jace exchange barbs throughout the day.

Jace: "I created her. I made her everything she is."

Jim to Britt: "Does he have a way of subtly making you feel less than you are? Because he did that to me last night."

Jace: "I created this monster."

Jim: "Ask me how I know Jace won five awards.

"Last night when it was late and I was shooting... I said to him, 'This is the last time I write a 36-page script.' And Jace shrugged and said, 'Most of my scripts are 52 pages. And I just bang them out in three days no problem.'

"I just stood there looking at him and he goes, 'Well, you know I've won five AVN Awards for Best Screenwriter.'"

Rob Spallone: "Then Jim got under the blanket and went to bed."

Jim: "Then I went back into the room. And the door was closed. But I was still able to walk under it with no problem at all."

Jim's sets are usually fun places to be with lots of banter.

Jim: "Herschel [Savage] has been nominated 4000 times in his 47 years in the business and he's never won."

Rob: "But he's always on time."

Laughter.

Jim: "I'm not a young guy. [Jim's 52.] But how often do I get to direct a guy in a porn scene who I jerked off to in high school?

"This is part of my building his character for today's character. Because he becomes a beaten man in this movie. He gets his life turned inside out. This is my method as a director to destroy his ego and bring him down to the level he belongs at...

"Herschel says I will never win an AVN Award because, like him, AVN doesn't like me."

Herschel: "You're not politically correct in their mind."

Rob: "Am I politically correct?"

Herschel: "People believe you have power. We, on the other hand, know that you have none. You're the master illusionist. You're Houdini."

Luke to Jace: "You said New Sensations gave you everything you needed. What did you need?"

Jace: "The budget to do a period piece, a '40s show. They were easy to work with. Whatever I needed as far as props, wardrobe... And Renee, our production manager, was incredible. I'm editing it now."

Luke: "What do you mainly do these days?"

Jace: "I own my own camera package, so I rent that out often. I'm doing all kinds of things. I'm doing [non-porn] documentary work. I direct once or twice a month...

"I entered the industry in 1986. I had a friend who was a writer who started working on a video magazine type show. I have a music and radio background. He wanted me to work with him. I came out here from Texas to do that. Britt came with me. While I was doing that, she was busy meeting people. Next thing I know she's doing magazines and video work. She did all the magazines - Hustler, Club...

"Doing this was like going to film school. Porn University. PU."

Luke: "And when do you graduate?"

Jace: "I think that I am way past graduating. I have reached the point now where I'm an old grizzled professor and I'm bringing along the young ones and teaching them."

Luke: "You came in when the budgets started to plunge."

Jace: "That was ok. Because if someone gave you $12,000 instead of $30,000, it didn't bother you so much. There wasn't so much pressure. And if you have any creativity and imagination, you can do a cute little show and see what happens. I always had a lot of good luck. I was able to write comedy and people thought it was good."

Luke: "How well do you think that comedy can work in a pornographic medium? Isn't the purpose of this for guys to masturbate?"

Jace: "That's why comedy works [in porn]. Because as a society, we're taught to be uptight about sex. We're taught to feel guilty about sex. If you keep light hearted and make people laugh and feel good because they're laughing, then they let their inhibitions go. If a guy tries to get a girl to watch a movie, and he puts on a dark vicious movie, she's not going to be turned on. But if you put in a movie where she laughs in the first two or three minutes, she's going to lighten up.

"The first thing a woman always says about a guy is, 'I like him because he has a good sense of humor.' While guys always say, 'She's got great tits.' You see women with guys who aren't attractive, and you ask, 'Why are you with this guy?' And that's what they always say.

"A sense of humor means something to women. They want to feel that they can laugh and have fun with you.

"When I was a kid and I looked at Playboy magazine, the first thing you do is to go to the centerfold. You open the centerfold up and there's a gorgeous babe. You look on the other side of the centerfold and there's jokes.

"The only other person in the category I write is Johnathan Morgan. When he first started writing, I schooled him in what I was doing. And he learned a few things. He has his own style too.

"My whole thing about a script... I hate to read a script where it's just a bunch of words to fill up a page. Ok, now we have a script. That's bull. If you're writing something in the script that is not connected to something later in the script, then it has no reason to live. The words that these people are saying has to be building a story or plot, or leading to a punchline. I read scripts every day that are just a bunch of words and I think, 'This is a waste of time. People don't want to hear this.'

"I work as a video tech... The script is handed to me at the beginning of each day to see whether it's worth the effort."

Britt Morgan divorced Jace Rocker in 1992 and married a man twice her age in Texas. She returned to porn for the first time in February and rented a room from Jace, who appears still besotted with her.

Jace has written and directed over 100 porn films.

Jace performed sex in a few scenes with his wife.

Jace: "When you start, it's all new. You feel like you're going to reinvent the wheel. She wanted me to do it. It was like, if I do this, then I'll belong to the club. It wasn't like that at all. Once I got to know the guys in the crew and became one of the guys, there's no way I'm going to show my naked butt to those guys."

Luke to Britt: "What happened to you? Did you go away for a few years, like the movie Frances."

Jace: "Her story was more like The Burning Bed, where she sets an abusive husband on fire. She came home one day to find her husband with a young Mexican boy..."

Luke: "Do you and Jace platonically make love?"

Britt: "No. He keeps his life separate and I keep my life separate. We have different tastes."

Britt giggles: "I do whoever has my phone number."

Jace: "She's just testing the waters now. She doesn't know which direction she may be headed.

"She's a lot of fun."

Luke: "How much fun is she?"

Jace: "More fun than a barrel of monkeys. Emphasis on monkey. Because if she's around, you're usually spanking your own.

"It's a double edged sword. If you have history with someone, the woman has the power of the yes and no. She's the one that says this is where it's going and that's as far as it goes. And as a guy, you say, 'If you say so. That's where I want to go to."

Britt: "I read this boy's site. If you say anything s---ty about me, I'm looking the doors."

Jace: "You're already locking the doors."

We trade wisecracks.

Jace: "You'll have to read between the lines. I want to keep my nuts."

Britt: "I don't tell the truth. I'm a liar honey."

Luke: "You must feel right at home in this business then."

Britt: "That's not true. Some of the best I've ever known are in this business."

Luke: "Like who?"

Britt: "Everybody. All my friends are in this business. Nina Hartley, Keisha, Jeanna Fine. These people are all my friends. They are the reason that I stayed in this business as long as I did. Who better to have sex with than your friends?"