Absolute Mayhem by Monica Mayhem

Author:Monica Mayhem [Monica Mayhem]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781864714197
Publisher: Random House Australia

Chapter Eight

HEALTH BEFORE

WEALTH

The first time you see me in the 'Behind the Scenes' section of Dark Angels 2: Bloodline, my personal favourite of all my films, it isn't the part where I'm fl exing my legs and practising my kick-boxing stunts. Neither is it my rehearsals of the fight scene with Dillon Day where he's on the ground and I attack him from above, which we went over again and again while trying not to laugh. It is the part where I'm bending over, trying to do some warm-up callisthenics and yoga stretching exercises. Why? Because they could point the camera straight at my ass and shoot me from behind. But, in all seriousness, warming up and stretching are very important parts of my job.

To survive this business, you have to take care of your well-being. I am quite a believer in the holistic mind– body relationship, and I do think that a sound mind needs to go with a sound body. This industry constantly poses challenges to that equation. I can barely count the weird things I have had to deal with now, because there have been way too many to recall, but let me cite a few.

Back when I started out, when Roy Garcia was my agent, I did a shoot for a Japanese company. I was brand new and willing to try pretty much anything. A Japanese company came into town with some famous Japanese male porn star (and a translator, because none of them spoke English). We started the scene off like a typical gonzo shoot – no plot, no script – and then suddenly they're yelling at me to scream louder.

So I thought, 'Okay, they want me to highly exaggerate it.'

I did the loud moans and groans, and then they were like, 'No, louder!' So I did it louder. And again, 'Louder!'

At that point, I stopped and said, 'Look, are you fucking serious? I'm moaning as loud as I can!'

The translator pulled me aside and told me that the Japanese get off on the appearance of a girl getting raped. So they actually wanted me to scream like I was terrified, like I was being raped. And he wasn't kidding. That's what they wanted. I was not comfortable with this at all. I didn't sign up to be 'raped', nor did I want to act like I was, and I thought the whole thing was really twisted. So I did the best I could do. I realise I could have just acted and screamed like crazy, but it just didn't seem right to me. Apparently, they were not happy with my performance at all. But who cares? I wasn't happy with the way I was treated. How was I supposed to fake being raped like I was enjoying it?

I know this is a very real phenomenon in Japanese porn – the prevailing theory is that Japanese men are brought up by very strict mothers and use porn to channel their resentment of women – so we had a real culture clash there.

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