Last month's Spotlight Actress of the Month, Asia Carrera, was gracious enough to grant us an interview for this issue. She is one of our absolute faves here at Unchain the Underground! Read on as we pick her brain and get personal. Oh, and all graphics on this page are courtesy of Asia's own home page. Want to see more?? Go there!!
I hear that you have decided to hang up your "porn spurs" so to say, and that this is because of the fact that five porn stars have tested positive for aids in the last 5 months. Is this true?
Yes.
How hard was it to come to this decision?
Very. First of all, i like my job a lot, and second of all, retirement was not in my financial plan for another 6 years. So I had to give it a lot of thought.
Is this a permanent decision?
No. I've learned better than to ever say that anything's written in stone to the press (laughs). If you do, you know it'll come back to haunt you sooner or later!
Are you going to miss it?
I do and I don't. There's a lot of things, like monthly needle stabs for AIDS tests that I won't miss. But I miss the fun of being on set, and the fun of helping to create a movie.
What do you think can be done, or should be done to help protect everyone else in the adult film business from catching AIDS?
Everyone should use condoms, of course. Testing for HIV everyday isn't going to be effective enough if the people go home every night and run around shooting up and doing strangers.
Now that you are out of the business what are your career goals? Is the web page something that can support you for your life? How about the grip work, is that a job you want to continue doing? Will you ever go back to dancing?
Asia Doing Grip Work. Topless.Go back to dancing? Not likely. Too stricken with stage fright. The website is providing adequately for now, but of course I need to plan for when my name fades into obscurity without the promo of current movies to back it up. I like the grip work, but that is just fun, and doesn't pay well enough to cover my living expenses. I may move into other online ventures, like running my own server/website hosting, or designing websites professionally, or I may move into the financial world and become a licensed stockbroker... I don't know. The options are endless. I want to do everything!
Let's get a little personal here: How old were you when you lost your virginity (to a man and to a woman)?
Female - 13 Male - 14
Who was it with in each instance, and how old were they?
The girl was my best friend. We experimented with innocent 'doctor'-like games as kids, and as we got older, we gradually did more, until we'd done everything there was to do. At 13 she moved away, and that was the end of that.
At 14 I lost my virginity to a guy in my biology class. He was 15, gorgeous, and had never given me the time of day before. I don't even remember how the whole thing came about, but he took his parent's car (he wasn't old enough to drive) and picked me up at 3am. We parked in a parking lot somewhere, did it at the speed of light (didn't feel a thing), then the cops pulled into the lot, arrested us, and our parents had to pick us up at the police station.
If you could go back, would you have waited until you were older before you had sex?
Nah, it was no big deal. Hardly worth prolonging the anticipation. As a matter of fact, it was such a letdown, thatI had no desire to even try it again for several years. So it worked out for the best.
Would you consider yourself to have been a "wild child"?
No. Impulsive, maybe. but I was never one of the truly rebellious sorts.
We caught the special on the E! Channel entitled "Women Of The Net". How well do you feel E! represented you and your site? Has the program affected the traffic to your site?
E! put me and my site in the bestest, most positive light I could have wanted. they opened me up to a whole lot of new fans, and gave me an extra 15-20,000 hits every time they aired a rerun.
Have you ever been a big drug taker? When, if ever, was your heaviest period of your life for taking drugs?
My big experience with drugs was immediately after I left home. I moved in with my boyfriend at the time who was in a band, and the house was a permanent party zone. After two weeks of smoking pot, drinking heavily, and trying coke once and thinking I was going to die for sure, I'd had my fill of partying. It just didn't do anything for me. So every night as the party raged on at the rock 'n' roll house, I'd say goodnight at 11pm, so I'd be well-rested for school the next morning. And that was that. I don't drink or do anything else now, and if my friends want to smoke pot around me, I make them go outside. Gotta protect my brain cells - when my looks fade, they're all I'll have left!
When did you begin smoking?
I started smoking at 14, and have smoked on and off ever since. I've never been a heavy smoker, maybe a pack every week or two at most. I smoke on sets to avoid eating, and to get extra breaks during shoots. If I ever have kids, I'll quit then. I hate the smell of smoke with a passion, because after two nose jobs, my nose can't filter out smoke, so I have to smoke outside, or in a well-ventilated room with open windows. I drive smokers nuts when I ask them to quit smoking around me, because they know I smoke too, but breathing smoke is painful for me, so it's got to be done where there's some sort of breeze.
What do you feel, if anything, can be done to keep kids from starting smoking?
Hmmm. Not much. Smoking is the easiest show of rebellion for teens. Smoking is legal, so cigarettes aren't that hard to come by, and teens feel grown-up and cool doing it. But on the bright side, it's a phase that most kids grow out of as soon as peer pressure stops being an issue.
Please give me the first thing that pops into your head when you hear these words:
Sex.
Work.
Chocolate.
Fat.
Happy.
Me.
Family.
None.
Elastic.
Band.
Life.
Finite.
Any last words of wisdom?
Don't fart in a room with only one other person, because then there's no one to blame it on.
hugs, asia
