Kurt Lockwood has been locking horns with producer Patti Rhodes. The situation came to a head recently when Lockwood, suspecting Rhodes of telling tall tales about his allegedly hitting women [in this case Aria] confronted Rhodes on the phone. I happened to be on an Adam & Eve set when all of this happened with Lockwood calling Rhodes telling her she had just bought a lawsuit for comments she was making about him. One of Rhode’s crew members then left a message with Lockwood telling him to bring it on.
Most of this started back on the Jill Kelly shoot of Bill & Stace which was directed by Toni English, for whom Rhodes works. Then it escalated on an Antonio Passolini VCA shoot.

Lockwood: Toni English was directing. We shot the whole movie and everything went fine. We finally got to the sex scene with me and Tyler Faith. At the end of the sex scene I busted a nut on her face and Toni says kiss her mouth. My jizz is all over her mouth. She’s telling me to kiss it. Everybody knows I’m going to be eating my own cum if I kiss her mouth. I kissed her on the side of the face where there wasn’t any cum. She goes, cut. ‘Great pop shot but you just ruined my movie!’ This was right in front of the whole crew and everything. I wasn’t too crazy about that but everything was fine. Then we come to this VCA shoot.

Gene: Wasn’t this a scene with you, Aria and Joel Lawrence?

Lockwood: Yes. But for weeks this scene was booked as Aria and her husband Jack who I’ve worked with doing d.p.s before. I have nothing against Joel, but I’ve never worked with him before. If you have your druthers, you’d rather work with someone you’ve done d.p.s with before. We had a 9 am call time and when I get to the set I’m informed that it’s going to be Joel Lawrence instead of Aria’s husband. That’s grounds for walking right there. This wasn’t what I was booked for, but I say, okay. Whatever. They give me my paperwork. I fill it out and give it back to Patti Rhodes. Joel didn’t have a pen, but this will become important. So then we get wardrobe fitted. It’s Kurt, you’re the orderly; and Joel, you’re taking the part of a mental patient in a straight jacket. Joel said he wouldn’t do it, that he’d walk if he had to wear a straightjacket because he wouldn’t get wood if he was restrained. Director Antonio Passolini was mad. He said he wanted me as the orderly. Joel wouldn’t do it so I said I’ll be the mental patient, I don’t care. They were upset that Joel wasn’t going to be the mental patient so I’m the good guy here. Joel is like, you fucked up now. You don’t know what you got into.

Finally we get on the set and by now it’s 12:30. I’ve been on a ton of feature sets and I’m used to waiting. But when you’re the first scene of the day and it’s three hours late already before you start shooting anything because the production’s dragging its ass, you’re losing your mojo. It tries on you after awhile. Finally we start shooting, and I’m in a real straitjacket- heavy canvass. Full on buckles. I’m on a stretcher and underneath these hot set lights. The time is ticking by, and I’m sweating bullets. I said I’m really hot in this thing, we either have to shoot or I have to get out of this. Toni goes, ‘I’m sorry, Kurt. We’re trying to make a movie here.’

Finally they make it like I’m the prima donna. They bring one of the wardrobe girls who comes over and unbuckles it so I can breathe. But I’m still in it and still sweating. Finally we start shooting. Suddenly Aria has this giant cartoon thermometer. She comes over to me and sticks it up my ass. Not literally up my ass because it’s too big. Like she’s giving me a rectal exam. Nobody had discussed this with me prior or asked if it was okay. Because I’m in a straightjacket I can’t stop her physically from doing it. We’re rolling so I can’t be the asshole who yells cut. Then they would really think I’m Mr. pompous-arrogant. Five takes I put up with her coming out and acting like she’s giving me a rectal exam. I’m playing for laughs

I’m wearing pajama bottoms. She takes me out, she starts blowing me and gets me hard. He’s fucking the shit out of her from behind. She was too sick and shouldn’t have been on the set that day. She’s wincing in pain every time he fucks her. Which is a big turn on. They yell cut. Let’s put Kurt away. Let’s move the camera and re-light. They’re shooting two cameras, by the way, Jake and Toni. After awhile I go limp in my pajamas. Aria gets me hard again. Cut. Let’s adjust the lights. This happens four or five times. I’m going up-down. I’m like, are we shooting a d.p.? Again Toni goes to me, sorry, Kurt, we’re trying to make a movie. Loud enough this time for the whole crew to hear. And then she goes to me, I can’t wait until we can re-place you guys with CGI [computer graphics images]. Joel Lawrence said did I hear what she just said?

And now she wants to say she was joking about everything. It sure didn’t seem like it at the time. Mind you I’m still in the straightjacket sweating my ass off the entire time.

Then they say let’s go to the sex. We need two vag before we go to the A. I said you just got one vag. Turns out nobody got ‘hard’ on that. Two cameras and a half-hour, nobody got hard. I was what are you guys shooting- my face? She’s getting fucked here and nobody thought to swing the camera around and shoot a cock going in there? Again they’re acting like they’re placating the asshole star. We go right into d.p. Aria pulls me aside and says ‘Joel is bigger than you. He’s too big so you have to do the anal. I don’t know if I told you this but I’m condom-only anal.’

Jesus Christ! You guys are just stacking the deck. So he lays on the stretcher and she climbs on top of him. I get behind and I’m in her. The stretcher is so small that we all three couldn’t be on it without me and Joel just totally rubbing nuts. I could feel the guy’s nuts on my arm. I’ve done loads of d.p.s. If done properly there should be no contact between the male talent and I don’t think people want to see us meshing balls.

At one point I needed to take a break and went to the bathroom. That’s when Patti came out and Toni came out. I said, Toni, you keep doing this to me. Last shoot you tried to make me eat my own cum. Now this shoot you’re telling me we’re making a movie here. You clearly have no respect for male talent. I don’t even want to call it disrespect because I don’t think she thinks about us to disrespect us. I think she uses us like you’d see a chair. It’s about capturing a hot scene. I said let’s both be professional; let’s finish what we’re here to do.

I said I’ll give you two vag and a pop. But the d.p.’s not happening. They’re like let us shoot you out, then. Patti’s then saying we’re going to black list you at VCA and you’re never going to work in this industry again. ‘I’m going to file a complaint with Jim South.’ I laughed in her face. You know how much money I make for Jim South? You think he’s going to give a shit. So I let them shoot me out.

They keep me sitting there waiting for them to get another actor. I’m sitting there so pissed off. I don’t need this bullshit. I don’t need to be treated like this, like a piece of meat.

Sergio the other male talent comes in. He goes Mr. Bonkers or whatever they called me, congratulations, you’re cured. I go yeah and I get out of the scene. I go I’m going to another scene right now and it’ll go off without a hitch. They’re my God! You’re double-booked!? How dare you do that? You booked me at 9 in the morning and my other scene wasn’t until 5. That would have given me all the time in the world. This should not take from 9 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon. They’re like that’s reason enough for us to ban you forever! Whatever. I leave the set. Next thing I hear is Kurt we don’t have your paperwork. You stole your paperwork. I said I don’t even remember filling out paperwork.

She’s remember I had you and Joel filling out your paperwork. He didn’t have a pen and you did. You filled yours out and you gave it back to me. I was, like, you’re telling me that I gave it back to you. She’s I don’t know where it is. That doesn’t mean I fucking stole it. She’s I don’t know what else could have happened to it. She lost my paperwork and now she’s covering her ass saying it’s me. Then she said I was on drugs. I told AIM to have it on open file for anyone who wants to check it, I got a full panel drug test. All I do is smoke pot. She can kiss my ass about that.

Then the latest is that Ava and I had been booked for weeks for a Sin City shoot. Two days before the shoot I get a call from Bud Lee: Kurt, did you slap some girl on the set? What! Are you kidding me?! I’d be in jail if I did that. Who am I supposed to have slapped? He says Patti Rhodes is the one saying it. Bud told me he had to take me off the shoot because I slapped a girl. I said call the girl- ask her. Who’s the girl? Aria. I’m I worked with her five times since then. If I slapped her why is she still working with me? Bud said I’m going to call her. You’re going to call her now after you’ve taken me off the shoot? ‘Don’t worry,’ he says. ‘We still want Ava.’

Fuck you, you still want Ava. I called Patti. And she’ll tell you that I harassed her by calling her seven times. I did not call her seven times, and if I did, it was to get through. It was because I was getting bad reception because she was filming God-knows-where. I called her up and said Patti did you tell Bud Lee I slapped some girl? ‘No.’ I said are you calling him a liar? ‘If he said that and I didn’t say it, then he is a liar.’ I call Bud Lee and said he’s calling you a liar. He goes, ‘Hold on. I never said SHE told me that. She told Scott Justice. And that’s not the only reason Scott Justice doesn’t want to hire you. You’re also too expensive and you have attitude.’ I said she told Scott Justice I slapped a girl. He said that’s what she told me. I called her back and said you just bought yourself a lawsuit. That’s when I got this message back from one of her crackhead crew members leaving a threatening message, telling me to bring it on. I went to the cops and they took the full report and copied the message.

Then I called Bruce over at VCA and said you don’t want to hire me anymore? Fine. I don’t want to work for you anymore. I’ve had enough of your 4am Dry Gulch shoots for the same amount of money that I do a gonzo scene for two hours. And I said what’s up with all these threats? Are these the best people you can get to run your fucking porn company for you? I’m glad you guys have nothing better to do with your time than talk shit about me. He’s like, fine. I’ll call them and we’ll straighten this out. You just stay on your side and don’t have any contact. I’m like I don’t want to hear from any of you guys ever again. Ever. He said that’s fine with me. He hung up. That was it.