Syren

Pornstarempire.com: How many adult films have you made?

Syren: So far I've done about 45, over two and a half years.... When I
entered the business, I wasn't doing movies - only posing for magazines.

Pornstarempire.com: What's your favorite part of sex onscreen?

Syren: Body part? [Laughs]. My favorite part would probably be, gosh, I
never really broke it down. I guess I'm more into...[when] me and my
partner get the chemistry going, and we look at each other's eyes and we
know how to play with each other. And I like it when my partner knows
how to bring me to both extremes, like being gentle and rough, then soft
and hard, and kind of like switching from a dominant to a submissive....

Pornstarempire.com: So the chemistry you're talking about, is that
always possible - do you get to pick your own people?

Syren: I always try to work with people that I have good chemistry
with. When I started out in the business, I didn't know anybody,
talent-wise...What I did earlier on, was when I worked with someone, I
always tried to meet with them like a day before. I just don't like to
be in a position where I work with someone and the chemistry's not
there, or is an asshole....

Pornstarempire.com: What do you do when you meet them for the first
time?

Syren: Usually I come by the set. They're working, the day before, and
I just come by to say hello. I just feel it out. I can always pick it up
- my instincts know if things are going to work.

Pornstarempire.com: Does sex onscreen ever feel like an intimate
experience?

Syren: It always feels like a sexual experience, not necessarily
intimate. To me, being intimate with somebody takes more than just
fucking, there's more...feelings or emotions involved in it, connecting
with the person.... When I do a sex scene...[the experience] is more
like feeding the exhibitionist within me.... I like being watched and I
like performing....

Pornstarempire.com: Do you prefer to work with men or women?

Syren: I work with both.... I'm more into men. When I'm with a man, I
like to switch from the dominant to submissive, and I like that play....
With a woman, I'm more dominant. I like to give pleasure when I'm with a
woman.

Pornstarempire.com: Why do you think that the submissive component is
missing for you when you're with a woman?

Syren: I think it's the chemicals. I'm attracted to women who are
vulnerable, or soft.... I like soft touching.... I like to do what makes
me feel good.... I know how to please her....

Pornstarempire.com: What's your best asset onscreen?

Syren: [Giggles]. Well, I've always been told that I have perfect
breasts. I'm best when I'm doing boy-girl scenes, one-on-one....

Pornstarempire.com: You mentioned being an exhibitionist, when did this
first occur to you?

Syren: That first occurred to me when I was looking at the pictures
[that my boyfriend shot] when I first came out here.... I just allowed
myself to be free.

Pornstarempire.com: Do you ever get desensitized to, or sick of sex?

Syren: No! I never do. And I understand how that can happen...but I
don't work that much. I work like one or two times a month.... I'm very
selective about my projects.... At first, you get like hundreds of
calls. I just weed through the garbage to get to the good stuff.

Pornstarempire.com: Has there been any point in your adult career where
you felt exploited?

Syren: Yes. There was one point in my career and it's not even the
movies. I've started going out and feature dancing and doing signings
and appearances.... I guess people who hire you - producers and agents -
they always try to get as much as they can out of you...they spring
things up, right on the spot and they're not straight-forward....
I did this gig in New York.... I was told that I was only gonna be
introducing an act onstage, and when I got there, five minutes before I
was about to step out onstage, I was told that I was expected to do a
girl-on-girl sex show, and I freaked out and said, "Hey, this was not
part of the deal."...There were like thousands of people - it was one of
those warehouses in New York...it was four in the morning and the party
was just starting.... There I was with this other girl, and we were kind
of like playing the crowd...teasing each other...and at one point we
didn't know what to do anymore, so we just introduced the act, and we
left the stage...and the whole crowd booed us, because they were told
that we would do a sex show.... You're put in that position of, "Do I
want to alienate this large potential fan base?".... There's a lot of
pressure....

Pornstarempire.com: I was always surprised by the lack of sexism I
found in stripping.... Where I expected to feel persecuted or exploited
for being a woman, I often felt glorified. How would you rate the porn
industry in the sexism department?

Syren: ...When people think of being in the adult industry...they think
that she's in the business because she's been abused...there has to be
something wrong with her, she's got to be fucked-up. But I've met a lot
of people in this industry - I'm not going to say that it's like ninety
percent - but in the circles I've been moving in a lot of women are
actually in the business because they're empowered by it.... It's
liberating to be in front of the camera and to play...I've found a lot
of really good friends in the industry, and we talk so openly, about our
sexual needs, about our lives, and we still really go back to the basics
of wanting passionate love and friendship.

Pornstarempire.com: How do you feel about featuring and traveling and do
you prefer dancing topless or nude?

Syren: I really love it. I love it. I just go out there and do what
makes me feel good. I dance nude... Men and women come in there and I'm
there for their fantasy....
It just feeds me so much...I have ten different acts...I have a Matrix
dance...I really do a full-on show...I put my voice in the music...I
play with a lot of props.... It's just an extension of my sexuality -
for me to shine sexually, and it gives me a lot of pleasure.

Pornstarempire.com: I know you do some mainstream acting and that you
plan to do more. Are you stigmatized due to your adult work?

Syren: I really have found that at this point in the history of
porn...it is much more accepted...there's more of a crossover - that
it's a cool thing to be in porn now?... People who are in the mainstream
are fascinated by it, but there's that mixed feeling about it when
they're actually faced with it.

Pornstarempire.com: Do you not bring it up?

Syren: When I come out to audition, I just don't bring it up. I'm there
as an actress, I'll do the job....

Pornstarempire.com: I know you want to direct, are you talking about
adult or mainstream?

Syren: I'm talking about adult - a really good feature.... It's about a
woman who claims her sexual powers. I want to make a real movie...that
has a story and the sex is motivated by the story.

Pornstarempire.com: I'd like to see a movie where the sex was explicit,
but it just wasn't so dragged out. Do you know what I mean?

Syren: Yes, yes, I do.... I guess it's an issue of making money. The
companies who sell these movies - they want to cut it in different ways
- they have the hardcore market and the cable market.... "Les Vampyres"
has seven different cuts, and they're selling it to different markets.

Pornstarempire.com: I've become a fan of Herschel Savage and I enjoyed
both of you in "Trial by Copulation" very much. What do you think of his
work, and tell us why you like working with James Avalon [(director of
"Trial by Copulation" and "Les Vampyres")] so much.

Syren: I like working with Herschel Savage simply because he works on
his script and he...improvises really well! A lot of the scripts that we
worked on together, James Avalon wrote.... He just gives us a lot of
freedom...to really get into the character.... He trusts me as an
actress. And when I play off with Herschel, it's always a lot of
fun...he's always just right on...the only thing we haven't done
together is have a sex scene we -we flirt a lot. I think it's like
foreplay.
"Trial by Copulation" was the first movie I shot with Avalon and I
remember...meeting him for the first time...and he was reading
actresses, and he didn't know what part to give me.... He was having me
read and giving me direction and I just played with it.... He ended up
giving me two different roles. He said, I really don't know whether to
give you the judge or the fiancé...then he said, "Maybe you can play
both roles."

Pornstarempire.com: I thought it was really interesting because for a
while, I couldn't figure out if that was the case - it was mysterious.

Syren: Yes, it added to the mystery.

Pornstarempire.com: Tell us something about the "Les Vampyres" shoot.

Syren: I shot four movies with James Avalon in a row, in 1999, and "Les
Vampyres" was the last one.... We already had a working relationship and
he wrote the lead vampire, Veronica for me.... I sat down with him
several times and we were auditioning different girls, and one day Jewel
Valmont came in and read with me.... She had theatre experience, and we
had chemistry and we liked each other, and we decided to go with her....
We started rehearsing four weeks prior to the shoot...so that when we
were shooting the movie, we pretty much didn't have to discuss anything
anymore, other than blocking.... He's very precise. When he's on the
set, he's very focused on the framing, on the filmmaking. He doesn't
have time to go over our motivation.... I really, really enjoy working
with James Avalon - he's my favorite director. A lot of the other
directors are teasing me about it, that I'm James Avalon's "contract
girl".

Pornstarempire.com: Your website is very impressive, is there something
you want to say about that?

Syren: Thank you. I created my website myself. I'm maintaining it
myself right now. I'm really proud of it, cause I worked my ass off to
put it together and I put a lot of my personality into it. I wanted my
website to be very playful and to have a place where my fans could get
to know me better.... It's free right now, and I really just enjoy
communicating and writing my fans back....

Pornstarempire.com: Is there something sexual you'd like to explore
onscreen that you haven't yet?

Syren: I want to do a boy-boy-girl scene. I haven't done that, and the
reason why is if you do a boy-boy-girl scene, they usually expect you to
do anal - like a DP.

Pornstarempire.com: How do you feel about that?

Syren: I really do not enjoy anal sex, and I don't do anything onscreen
that I don't enjoy in my personal life... But it would be great just to
play around with two boys.