from www,creativeloafing.com – Charlie Laine and I are sitting at a secluded, dimly lit table, sipping wine and chatting over a platter of jumbo shrimp and Ahi Tuna.
A sleek dress hugs her slender but well proportioned figure. Brown hair streaked with blonde frames her seductive, wide-set eyes and smooth features, which look polished and metallic when touched by the whirling stage lights.
Sheâs the epitome of club-chic, yet beneath the veneer of her sexy pornstar persona and unabashed stories of fucking other women on film lies something very exposed and honest. She excitedly points to an ad for her appearance at Penthouse and when she talks about her off-screen life a hint of her small town Wisconsin accent emerges. Herâs is a kind of innocent charm that makes it entirely too easy to forget that this isnât a first date. Sure Laine is beautiful as all models are, but she has something that canât be fakedâa genuine enthusiasm for what sheâs doing.
In 2002 when Laine was 18, she began posing nude for magazines like Hustler and Cheri, and in February of 2006 she became the Penthouse Pet of the month. She has performed girl-on-girl and solo sex scenes in over 200 films. She has also appeared in more mainstream TV gigs, most notably having an orgasm on Howard Sternâs Sybian and competing in his âWorldâs Strongest Naked Woman Contest.â I caught up with the starlet at Tampaâs premier gentlemenâs club and steakhouse, Penthouse, just before her second ever featured club performance.
Alfie: How does dancing at a club like Penthouse compare to filming a sex scene?
Charlie Laine: Here the fans are up-close and personal and you donât want to disappoint them. Itâs a little nerve racking.
Alfie: Did you strip before you go into adult modeling?
Charlie Laine: I stripped for two days when I turned 18 and it just wasnât for me. It was in Pensacola Florida at a club called Angels. While I was on stage some drunk grabbed my crotch. I ran off crying and never went back. But luckily porno came along. Itâs a much safer environment.
Alfie: How did you transition from stripping for two days in Pensacola to doing porn?
Charlie Laine: I was on a modeling website and I got an email from an agent guaranteeing me work with magazines like Hustler and Cheri. It took me a good two and a half months before I actually went through with it. I flew out to LA for three weeks and loved it. I shot with Suze Randall and Earl Miller. Having the best photographers in the industry telling you youâre hot, youâre like âReally? Me? Maybe I am.â I never really thought of myself like that. It was good for me. It was a good ego boost, a confidence builder, and I loved it.
Alfie: What do you like or dislike about Florida?
Charlie Laine: The humidity sucks and youâre always sweating but I do love the comfortableness. Itâs filled with beautiful people wearing flip flops instead of heels.
Alfie: You told your entire family before you did any nude modeling and they were all very supportive. Do you have the coolest family ever or what?
Charlie Laine: Pretty much. My dad didnât know until I was in Penthouse but my mom, grandma, and my aunt and uncleâeveryone on my momâs side knew. Iâve always been an open person. Theyâre all pretty awesome and really supportive. Theyâve been with me through a lot. I love that they just want me to be happy. A lot of girls in this industry have parents who donât approve and donât support them. Iâm not doing anything I donât want to do. Iâm having fun along the way and Iâm working toward a future besides this.
Alfie: What is your future beyond the adult industry?
Charlie Laine: I donât want to do it past 35 just because I would like to have a family some day. I would like to get to a place where I have a semi normal job and am able to take maternity leave. My work now is very demanding travel wise. When I have a family I donât want to be gone all the time. I want to be there. So Iâm sewing my wild oats now, having fun while Iâm young.
Alfie: How did you decide on your stage name?
Charlie Laine: At first it was Brandy Sapphire then it was Raina Lee. Suze Randall shot me and said, âYou need to change your name. Youâre not a Raina.â She wanted to name me Coco Chanel or something like that. So I sat there and thought, âWell Iâm only going to do girls, so I kind of want a boyâs name.â Then it dawned on me that Charlie perfume was in my dress-up kit as a kid. Then I took Tracey Lain and Devinn Laneâs last names, because they were very popular when I started, and combined them to come up with Charlie Laine.
Alfie: Whatâs your favorite pornstar name?
Charlie Laine: Courtney Cummz. Sheâs the sweetest girl, sheâs dirty as shit, and she does cum, a lot.
Alfie: Many young women get caught in the trap of doing amateur porn and thinking itâs a backdoor into Hollywood, then they leave the business disillusioned after six month. What advice do you have for women wanting to get into the business?
Charlie Laine: I was lucky enough where my agent hooked me up with the best people in the industry. Just like any industry, there are a lot of people in this business who will fuck you over. It just so happens that a lot of girls who get into it are youngâ18, 19, 20. We donât know how evil the world can be and we get taken advantage of. I would say email the best photographers you know of and work that way. And, if youâre a model you should never have to pay for anything. You get paid. There are a lot of scammers out there saying, âOh Iâll build you a portfolio and you can pay me.â No, If Iâm taking my clothes off youâre paying me. Get references. Do background checks. Talk to other models and make sure they are legit. You donât want to ever put yourself in a position where youâre uncomfortable or youâre taken advantage of because itâs so easy in this industry. Youâre as exposed as you can get, youâre naked, or youâre fucking, or youâre putting something inside you, or youâre giving lap dances. You donât want to let anyone take advantage of you while youâre like that because itâs going to put a bad taste in your mouth.
Alfie: How has porn affected your development as a person?
Charlie Laine: Being as open to sexuality as you have to be in this industry, youâre going to grow up faster. A lot of people are sheltered from sexuality, which I donât think is good. Itâs a big part of life. Itâs a big part of happiness. A lot of marriages fail because sex isnât good. A lot of people are depressed because they arenât getting any.
Alfie: Do you ever get recognized?
Charlie Laine: I actually did coming here. I was at the airport. I was on my phone, had glasses on, no makeup, a hatâcompletely dorked outâand I look up and thereâs this guy handing me a stack of eight by tens to autograph. Iâve never had that happen. I was weirded out, not like in a creepy way, but like whoa, whatâs this person doing. Then all the security guys were like, âWho are you?â as Iâm signing pictures with my ass spread.
Alfie: Whatâs your favorite bad title of a film youâve appeared in?
Charlie Laine: I just found one: Charlie Laine is a Filthy Whore. They didnât even tell me they were going to call it that. I didnât know I was a filthy whore but I guess itâs true if thereâs a movie about it.
Alfie: How do you decide what you will and wonât do on camera?
Charlie Laine: I wonât do anything Iâm not comfortable with. I do spanking. I like spanking. I do foot fetish work because I like feet. I cater to fetishes because I think itâs a good idea to have that available to guys who donât care about penetration.
Alfie: Whatâs the strangest thing youâve done on film?
Charlie Laine: I do a lot of knockout stuff. Like fake chloroform.
Alfie: Do you think these type of darker fetish videos act as a release or an instigator for viewers?
Charlie Laine: To me, itâs giving those guys a release so they donât have to go out and chloroform some random girl. Youâll do custom orders for them and they are so detail oriented that you can tell itâs just really what they want to see. To many people itâs weird, but Iâm creating something good for these guys. Iâm helping someone get that release, that orgasm, which is awesome.
Alfie: What are your personal relationships like?
Charlie Laine: Iâve been single for about eight months, so not much penis action. I have an Italian greyhound and a Chihuahua who are my life. I love them more than myself. Theyâre the best things that have ever happened to me. I donât know what Iâm going to do without them. My Italian greyhound is getting gray hairs on his face and Iâm like, âDonât die on me.â Now Iâm kind of in search for a miniature potbelly pig. They are supper smart. I want to teach mine to paint.
Alfie: Have you smoked pot in Tampa yet?
Charlie Laine: Iâve actually cut down a lot. I didnât bring any with me this time.
Alfie: You usually bring pot on planes?
Charlie Laine: Oh yeah. You just cooter it. You wrap it in plastic wrap, then a plastic baggy. You put two condoms on it then shove it up your nana, and youâre good to goâfresh as pie. During my entire Penthouse club tour when I was the pet of the month, I cootered weed.
Alfie: Although youâre bisexual, youâve said you take relationships with men more seriously. Does this have anything to do with why you donât film girl/boy sex scenes?
Charlie Laine: Iâm more emotionally attracted to men and more physically attracted to women. I attach myself to men. If I do have a boyfriend and weâre fighting, I donât do the whole makeup sex thing which is unfortunate for them, but that just means my boyfriends have to treat me good and theyâll get laid all the time.
Alfie: Have any of your boyfriends been treated to off-screen threesomes with your costars.
Charlie Laine: Iâve never had a threesome with a boyfriend of mine. Iâve been the other girl in threesomes. Iâve never really been asked. I think Iâm a lot to handle, bedroom and otherwise.
Alfie: Are you saying youâre a crazy girlfriend?
Charlie Laine: Weâre all a little crazy in our own ways. Iâm very affected by everything. Iâll watch TV shows and just start crying. Extreme Home Makeover makes me ball hysterically.
Alfie: What makes a fulfilling sex scene for you?
Charlie Laine: If Iâm working with a girl whoâs totally into girls, itâll be an awesome scene. If the girl is not into girls then you can totally tell and it sucks. I canât fake it. I feed off other peopleâs emotions so much, itâs hard for me to fake anything.
Alfie: How do you get yourself in the mood for sex when youâre not feeling it or youâre not attracted to the other girl?
Charlie Laine: I think of whoâs going to watch it. I donât want someone to buy this, wanting to get off, and they see a lame scene because the other person sucks. When it comes down to it, I have to snap in because I am a performer. I am fulfilling fantasies for people. I watched some of my old videos and you could so tell I wasnât comfortable. I didnât make a sound. I looked scared.
Alfie: What can fans expect from you in the future?
Charlie Laine: I want to keep feature dancing. Itâs another realm that Iâm very excited about. You canât pirate the experience and I absolutely love traveling. I get to meet my fans and I get to shake my ass. I also just shot a bunch of new stuff for clubcharlie.com but I never know when my movies are coming out. The producers never tell me. I just show up, fuck, then Google myself later. When youâre a free agent like me, going from random girl to random girl, you donât get told those things. I know, itâs a tough life but someoneâs got to live it, and Iâm glad itâs me.