Meet Your Crush Object Of The Year: An Interview With Bobbi Starr

Bobbi Starr's an enthralling porn performer, a talented musician, and—most important of all—the 2010 Fleshbot Crush Object of the Year. Yet even with all that going on, she still found time to give us an interview.

From her thoughts on whose great to work with, and whether parody porn is hot or not, to talk of what she's doing when she's not shooting porn (hint: running a gallery and shooting mainstream movies), Bobbi opened up to us about all sorts of fun topics. We're predicting great success for the lovely lady in 2011...and we can't wait to watch it unfold.

Fleshbot: To begin with: one of things that I personally really like about you is that you're my age, which is sadly kind of rare in a lot of porn. You mostly see women who are 19, 20, 21, and then it kind of drops off. And women in their late 20s are not only rare, but they're generally labeled MILFs. Is it difficult to be in the adult industry your late 20s?

Bobbi Starr: Yes and no. Sometimes, when I work for companies that I don't work for as often. There are some companies that do a lot of niche stuff, and when you're working for companies that do a lot of niche stuff, they're like, "I've gotta put you in a box," you know? "I've got to give you a title, because otherwise you don't make any sense to me." And so when I work for those companies, I do run into, we can hire you for hairy pussy stuff, this and that, and I always wait for that MILF thing to come up. It has come up, and I wouldn't mind being a MILF, but I do think it's kind of weird. If you're not a mom, then how can you be a MILF?

I'm not saying I'm fortunate for not being in MILF stuff, because quite frankly I'll take the work if it comes to me. But at the same time, I don't think that there's any bearing on any of these genres, because I actually did do a MILF movie, it was like my first week in the industry, in a MILF movie. It was one of these things where I showed up, and they were like, you're going to be—they worded it as if I was going to be offended, about the being a MILF thing—they were like, you're gonna do this one scene for this one website, and we're gonna have you pretend that you have a kid. And I'm like, "What?" And this is when I was twenty-three or twenty-four, and I was like, "What are you talking about?" I was really new to the industry so it was very confusing for me. And then it slowly dawned on me, I was like, "Is this a MILF scene?" And they were like, "Well, you can call it that, but no, not really!" And I was like, "What's the website?" And it was for one of these, like, you know, black-guy-fucked-your-mother or something like that. It was a MILF scene. And they were all like, "You know, you don't have to call it that because you know, we just really need to have context and what's the big deal about it." And I was like, I don't care. I just thought it was funny because then they were like, "Think of a number, how old's your kid?" And I was like, "I'm saying a week old." It was sort of comical because I was there, supposedly having a week-old child and being like, I'm going to have sex with you now! I just think, you know, in porn, sometimes they stretch a little. To make a long story short, I don't know if it's my age that gets me work, I think I've always been under the assumption that my work could stop any minute now, like something could happen where my work stops. So I just take the jobs as they come and enjoy them as they come and I've had that idea in mind, and I've been fortunate in the amount of work I've gotten.

That's a good attitude to have, especially with the industry as it is now. So who are your favorite companies to work with right now?

Well, Evil Angel's always been—the directors at Evil Angel have always been my favorite. The directors there are all very creative people and they're all very good at their craft, and they really love what they do. And it shows and we always have a great time...Like when it's not just a job, or a hobby, when you love it, it's going to be amazing...This year, I worked for New Sensations a lot, and worked for Lee Roy Myers a lot, and he's great, he is a fantastic director. He's just really great to be around, and really positive and picks a good crew and good casting and everything and I think that's why his movies always do so well. And New Sensations on their own, they're just a great company and I think their product is really, really good.

I agree with you on all of those. All very good people. Since you mentioned Lee Roy Myers, what is your opinion on parody porn? Is it fun to be in? Is it just another job or is there any special thrill from acting out something like "Sex and the City," but as a porn?

Yeah, I like parody porn. I guess it does well in the general public, but I think it's fun. It's fun to get to play a character, to widen your horizons and be able to act a little bit and actually act, because there's an actual character that you have to be like, and that character was created by another actor. The parodies that I've seen, you either have people that nailed the part, or don't. There's no grey area. There's no, "Oh, she almost got it," or "He almost got it." It's like, "Wow, that was perfect casting," or "That person really worked hard for that role," or "Wow, that person should not be in that role. " So I think it's pretty cool, and I think that just shows Lee Roy's ability as a casting director, because he does pick good people to play his roles, and he does think about it, and he does consider all the options, and he's like, "Oh, she's great at this, but she doesn't have blue eyes and the character has blue eyes"—he pays attention to detail. But I had a ton of fun playing the characters in parodies that I've gotten to do. I think my favorite one was being Velma in Scooby-Doo. That was so funny. ‘Cause I love Scooby-Doo, you know. I was raised on this show. I thought the cast was really good, me and Bree Olsen...and I'm blanking on everybody's else's name!

I thought you were great as Charlotte in "Sex and the City."

Yeah, that was really fun. I love "Sex and the City." And when that show was still on the air, everybody was like, "You look just like Charlotte! Just like her!" I always thought it was funny that she was like the prude, and the most conservative. I had fun playing her because in my day-to-day life, I'm not this exhibitionist, wild, I've got to go to a bar and fuck everything in sight girl. I'm pretty conservative: I like my quiet lifestyle, I like my boyfriend, I like just sitting back and experiencing life as it comes to me, not necessarily going out and creating circumstances and situations. So I had a good time. I felt like actually of all the "Sex and the City" characters, I could relate to Charlotte, so it was fun.

And Kristen Davis had such amazing and drastic facial expressions that she makes on the show, so I really had to exaggerate every facial expression I did. I guess it came off pretty good; I felt like an idiot doing it, but what you do doesn't necessarily come through on the camera. You might think you're making a shocked face, but it doesn't look like a shocked face once it's all said and done. It was pretty cool that I had to do that, that I had to really stretch. It was great, to have Lee Roy be like, "Can you do this more exaggerated!" And I was like, "Oh my god, how much more exaggerated can I be?"

Speaking of acting, can you tell me more about "Drive" and that whole experience?

That was great. Well, Nicolas Refn, I'm a fan of his movies to begin with. I think his movies are fantastic, and his movie "Bronson" is just an amazing film. Just being in the room with him, in a sense, was incredible for me, and having a conversation with him and the second time I went to audition—the first time I auditioned for the casting director and the second time I auditioned for him, and when I was talking to him, he was really interested in sex and sexuality and he wanted to know about the industry and really hear more about it and talk to me about it and listen to my experiences and stuff like that, so that was really great, because he really engaged, I felt like he was really engaging. And being on the set, I'd never been on a mainstream movie set. I live in Los Angeles so I see them everywhere, but I'd never actually been on one.

It was kind of strange, I just sort of walked up and said, "Yeah, I'm looking for this assistant director," and the guy came and found me, and I went in and he showed me where my wardrobe was and he took me to where I was going to get my makeup done and everybody on the crew was really awesome. My boyfriend is a set painter and sometimes he talks about sets where the crew sucks, and then sometimes he talks about sets where the crew's awesome, and so I felt like I was working with that, where the crew was all really cool people and a lot of them had been in the entertainment industry for a really long time. I was super stoked because I'm a big nerd and the hair and makeup guys worked on "Star Trek" and I was like, "Oh my god, that's so rad!" One worked on "Next Generation" and did all of Worf's hair and prosthetics, and the other one worked on the newest movie.

If someone told they touched Michael Dorn's face I would also be totally fangirly. Like, "Oh my god! Did you meet Troi? She's so pretty!"

When I was little, I actually met John de Lancie, who played Q, because his dad was the oboe player—John de Lancie Sr., the famous oboe player came to San Francisco, and he played a concerto with the San Francisco Symphony and my mom took me to see him. I was thirteen or fourteen and my mom was like, "That's Q!" And I was like, "Oh my god, you're John de Lancie!" And he was like, "Yes, I am." And I'm like, "Do you know who your father is?"

That's really adorable! Back to the topic of "Drive": Did you get to work with Christina Hendricks?

No, she wasn't on set when I was. I did have a pretty awesome conversation with Ryan Gosling at dinner. He didn't sit down the entire day, he just sort of wandered around talking to people. I found it very strange that he didn't sit down. And then I was in a scene with Albert Brooks, which was rad, because I remember watching "Defending Your Life," so it was like, dude, it's Albert Brooks! Wow! And then the next day, Andy San Dimas was on set and I guess she was talking to him and she was saying that he was like, "Oh, we have Bobbi Starr on set, and she's like the anal queen!" And I was like, "How is he going to work with me? I'd be so nervous because he watches porn!"

Last question: what's going on with Starrlight Gallery?

So me and Aiden [Starr] and my boyfriend decided to get a workspace. And we just thought, well, why not start a gallery? One side is a workspace, one side is just offices and the other side is a warehouse and the walls are white and beautiful and so we decided, let's do a gallery. Not a gallery that's open all the time, where we'd sell stuff, but more like one-night installations. So we opened with David Aaron Clark, a little requiem for David Aaron Clark. It was really great, we had an excellent turnout, a lot of people in the industry came and a lot of people who were friends with David came. I think it was really good for Aiden, because she and him were the closest of friends. It was great for her to process death and it was nice to kind of look back a year later at what he did, because he was such a excellent pornographer and this really great mind. It made me feel like, sometimes we get caught up in our own life and day-to-day.

We haven't had another show since then because it's the holidays and then AVN is coming up, so we're looking to have another one at the end of January, early February. it's going to be an artist named Bill Daniel who does a lot of found art, found objects, and does large-scale installations with found objects and then also he finds old Super 8 millimeter film....What he got the most famous for was he did this documentary called "Bozo Texino" about this hobo who rides the rails—it was called "Who Is Bozo Texino?" A lot of hobos had a symbol or a signature they would tag and this guy would tag a cowboy hat with an infinity sign so he tried to find this guy and he would ask them, "Have you seen Bozo Texino? Do you know who he is?" And he finally tracked this guy down and talks to him about the rails and being a train hopper. He's a pretty neat guy, Bill Daniel, and I'm really excited for the show because it's going to be one of those shows where we'll show a movie and it'll be the same sort of thing, and installation with a movie.

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