Interview: Jeremy Roddick
By Aaron LawrenceTuesday July 14, 2009 at 5:00 pm PDT
Among the new features for this blog is an interview series. I plan on doing regular interviews with people that work in the gay porn business. Not just porn actors, but as cameramen, video editors, webmasters, marketing professionals, and the like. Basically anyone who is involved in the business of attracting you, the consumer, to the porn that you enjoy so much.
Our first interview subject is the webmaster and host of Jeremy Roddick.com. He's something of a jack-of-all-trades in the business and, I think you will agree, also quite sexy.
Jeremy Roddick and Andrew Elliot
GayGeek: Tell us a little about yourself. In what roles you have been employed in the gay porn business and what you are doing now?
Jeremy Roddick: I first started my career by doing live shows for a company that was based in Montreal. At that point I was doing my degree in Film Studies and Computer Graphics and I was about to graduate. I wanted to start something that involved the knowledge I acquired at university but also keep my feet in the porn industry. This is how I met two of my best friends who owns Videoboys.com and Squirtz.com. I decided to do a solo for Squirtz and a hardcore scene with Pierre Fitch for Videoboys; which basically started my career.
Since I was a little handy with the camera and the web design, I decided in 2005 to start my own site: JeremyRoddick.com which is actually taking most of my time. I am also doing the video editing and marketing for Videoboys.com and Squirtz.com.
G: Describe your production process from the initial concept to a finished video being posted on your website.
JR: I am basically doing everything on my website by my own. From directing to camerawork (when I'm not part of the scene) to marketing to plunging my big dick in a tiny twink's ass. I think I'm part of that new generation of young producers who know how to handle a camera and use technology to lighten their work flow. The first step is always to find the models that best suit the content that I want to produce. I used to go in stripping club to hunt for models but was never really good at it. I have to tell you that word of mouth is the key. I have been referred so many models from friends that this part doesn't take much time anymore.
Since I am almost always working with newbies, the first contact is always the most important. I am always top in the scenes I am taking part of so the model has to be ready to pay the consequences (evil laugh!).
G: At times JeremyRoddick.com is a "casting couch" website, where the host (you) has sex with numerous models. How do the benefits and challenges of the "casting couch" approach to porn differ from "traditional" porn websites in which there no particular model is the center of attention?
JR: The website is basically me having sex with cute guys of my neighborhood. I live in the village area where there is always a lot of cute and horny guys around. I know most of them personally. I know their girlfriends or boyfriends. You would be surprised to know how many guys on my site are straight but just simply horny. And I am not using the "straight word" as selling incentive.
I am not always part of the scenes. What really drives me is the whole production process. Being an actor and having sex in front of the camera is just the cherry on the top. I like to direct models and also put them in a natural environment where you get to know them, but not necessarily by hearing them talking. Just letting them be themselves. That is when the magic happens.
G: As an experienced porn actor, you have sucked and fucked numerous models on video. Tell us about both an unusually fun model you worked with as well as a particularly difficult one.
JR: It is way easier to find models I had fun with on the set than ones I had trouble with. Kobe Cash is probably the one I had the most fun with. This massive straight gym bunny is simply adorable. He is gorgeous and so open minded. He is really easy to work with. He's goofing around all the time but when it's time to get down to business he switches instantly to a professional horny porn actor. I did a scene with him and an other model where he was doing some free run which is basically acrobatic running through obstacles. We really enjoyed ourselves on the set and his "joie de vivre" was a bit part of that.
Jeremy Roddick and Kobe Cash
I think the only scene I had trouble dealing with was with 2 straight guys sucking each other. In between shots they were both goofing around on which one is the most "macho" or the most masculine or the most straight of them both. It was cute at first from my gay point of view. But at some point it just turned to disaster. You know when jokes almost turn to reality or when you are taking the jokes a little bit too seriously.
G: You have worked as a performer, producer, and webmaster. If your business was so wildly successful you had to specialize in one of the three, on which would you focus your efforts and why?
JR: Definitely content producer. That is what I like the most. Being on the set, directing, conducting models. And then when that is all done putting all that together by editing it. Trying to find a sense to all that.
G: What is your relationship status and how has your work in the porn industry impacted your romantic life (or lack thereof)?
I am currently involved in a long term relationship of almost seven years now. My lover helps me and supports me in my work and I think he is a big part of my success. He is also working in the industry but never did anything as a model. I keep him for myself. I met him a couple of months after I started doing porn. So he knew basically what he was getting involved with. It wasn't like a surprise that you announce to your boyfriend after six months of a relationship: "Oh by the way dear, I do porn. Live with it!". Gradually he started getting more involved with the production. My goal is to be the next power couple, haha! Take my nine-incher, Brangelina!
Jeremy Roddick holding Joshua
G: You look like a good looking young man in your mid-twenties. What are your long-term plans for eventually transitioning away from the front of the camera, or do you plan on still being a star in twenty years?
JR: I have never really seen myself as a star. I am really the guy next door, who has a camera, a big dick and who likes to make a bottom scream. Being everywhere and on every magazine was never my first intention. I will definitely focus my business on the production part since it is what I really like. I would eventually like to delegate a little bit more on all the tasks I currently have.
G: Thank you for your time.
JR: Thanks for the opportunity.
Our first interview subject is the webmaster and host of Jeremy Roddick.com. He's something of a jack-of-all-trades in the business and, I think you will agree, also quite sexy.
GayGeek: Tell us a little about yourself. In what roles you have been employed in the gay porn business and what you are doing now?
Jeremy Roddick: I first started my career by doing live shows for a company that was based in Montreal. At that point I was doing my degree in Film Studies and Computer Graphics and I was about to graduate. I wanted to start something that involved the knowledge I acquired at university but also keep my feet in the porn industry. This is how I met two of my best friends who owns Videoboys.com and Squirtz.com. I decided to do a solo for Squirtz and a hardcore scene with Pierre Fitch for Videoboys; which basically started my career.
Since I was a little handy with the camera and the web design, I decided in 2005 to start my own site: JeremyRoddick.com which is actually taking most of my time. I am also doing the video editing and marketing for Videoboys.com and Squirtz.com.
G: Describe your production process from the initial concept to a finished video being posted on your website.
JR: I am basically doing everything on my website by my own. From directing to camerawork (when I'm not part of the scene) to marketing to plunging my big dick in a tiny twink's ass. I think I'm part of that new generation of young producers who know how to handle a camera and use technology to lighten their work flow. The first step is always to find the models that best suit the content that I want to produce. I used to go in stripping club to hunt for models but was never really good at it. I have to tell you that word of mouth is the key. I have been referred so many models from friends that this part doesn't take much time anymore.
Since I am almost always working with newbies, the first contact is always the most important. I am always top in the scenes I am taking part of so the model has to be ready to pay the consequences (evil laugh!).
G: At times JeremyRoddick.com is a "casting couch" website, where the host (you) has sex with numerous models. How do the benefits and challenges of the "casting couch" approach to porn differ from "traditional" porn websites in which there no particular model is the center of attention?
JR: The website is basically me having sex with cute guys of my neighborhood. I live in the village area where there is always a lot of cute and horny guys around. I know most of them personally. I know their girlfriends or boyfriends. You would be surprised to know how many guys on my site are straight but just simply horny. And I am not using the "straight word" as selling incentive.
I am not always part of the scenes. What really drives me is the whole production process. Being an actor and having sex in front of the camera is just the cherry on the top. I like to direct models and also put them in a natural environment where you get to know them, but not necessarily by hearing them talking. Just letting them be themselves. That is when the magic happens.
G: As an experienced porn actor, you have sucked and fucked numerous models on video. Tell us about both an unusually fun model you worked with as well as a particularly difficult one.
JR: It is way easier to find models I had fun with on the set than ones I had trouble with. Kobe Cash is probably the one I had the most fun with. This massive straight gym bunny is simply adorable. He is gorgeous and so open minded. He is really easy to work with. He's goofing around all the time but when it's time to get down to business he switches instantly to a professional horny porn actor. I did a scene with him and an other model where he was doing some free run which is basically acrobatic running through obstacles. We really enjoyed ourselves on the set and his "joie de vivre" was a bit part of that.
I think the only scene I had trouble dealing with was with 2 straight guys sucking each other. In between shots they were both goofing around on which one is the most "macho" or the most masculine or the most straight of them both. It was cute at first from my gay point of view. But at some point it just turned to disaster. You know when jokes almost turn to reality or when you are taking the jokes a little bit too seriously.
G: You have worked as a performer, producer, and webmaster. If your business was so wildly successful you had to specialize in one of the three, on which would you focus your efforts and why?
JR: Definitely content producer. That is what I like the most. Being on the set, directing, conducting models. And then when that is all done putting all that together by editing it. Trying to find a sense to all that.
G: What is your relationship status and how has your work in the porn industry impacted your romantic life (or lack thereof)?
I am currently involved in a long term relationship of almost seven years now. My lover helps me and supports me in my work and I think he is a big part of my success. He is also working in the industry but never did anything as a model. I keep him for myself. I met him a couple of months after I started doing porn. So he knew basically what he was getting involved with. It wasn't like a surprise that you announce to your boyfriend after six months of a relationship: "Oh by the way dear, I do porn. Live with it!". Gradually he started getting more involved with the production. My goal is to be the next power couple, haha! Take my nine-incher, Brangelina!
G: You look like a good looking young man in your mid-twenties. What are your long-term plans for eventually transitioning away from the front of the camera, or do you plan on still being a star in twenty years?
JR: I have never really seen myself as a star. I am really the guy next door, who has a camera, a big dick and who likes to make a bottom scream. Being everywhere and on every magazine was never my first intention. I will definitely focus my business on the production part since it is what I really like. I would eventually like to delegate a little bit more on all the tasks I currently have.
G: Thank you for your time.
JR: Thanks for the opportunity.
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