Porn Valley Dispatch: Wednesdays with Roy

One of my favorite people in the adult industry is director Roy Karch, the son of an upholsterer from the Bronx. (That's not Roy in the thumbnail, by the way; that's recent porn retiree and "Desperate Wives 2" star Eva Angelina. We needed a girl for the lede.) In the quarter century he's been directing porn films, Karch has arrived at a detailed process by which he figures out how to cast his films. After the gap, we'll see how he responds to a newcomer's assertion that she'll "do anything".- G. Ponante

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"I'm pretty groovy, so when I meet someone new to the business, I'll ask her what she's into," Karch said. "'Are you the dominant one? The secretary? The housewife? The party girl? I need to know these things, because it's not apparent from your photograph."

Karch mostly directs features which he scripts, such as "Desperate Wives" (and its sequel) and an emerging genre in the adult business called "high-end vignettes"—which are like gonzo films, but without the boom mic in the shot.

When new talent is introduced to producers, directors, and photographers, it is usually via an e-mail from an agent or modeling agency that details her measurements, age, and whether she is available for anal, interracial, or other types of scenes. But sometimes the information isn't there.

"So I need to know what her character might be. She says, 'I'll do anything'", Karch recounted, "and I said, 'So here's the scenario: You don't have to take your clothes off at all. You're just there, sitting in a chair. You're beautiful. And I've got a little pistol. It's a .22. And we do a medium shot and I shoot you in the kneecap. There's very little blood.'

"And she says, 'Um, by "anything", I meant anal.'"

· Roy Karch (roykarch.com)
· "Eva Goes Aweigh" (gramponante.com)

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