Kurt's Run In w/ Hank Spain

Kurt Lockwood, www.kurtlockwood.com posts: Hey Mean Gene

I just want to warn my fellow male talent out there to watch out for the shady "direction" of Hank Spain. I just thought I'd drop ya a line so that you could relate a little story for me today. I was supposed to shoot for Hank Spain today at CLOUD 9 studios.

I get the call from him this morning saying the first girl flaked can you come later? I said sure no problem. I get to the studio and he says, "We're just about ready for you. We're gonna shoot a solo masturbation scene with the girl then a few pretty girls and then you come in. Why don't you stay in the make-up room and get your wardrobe on?"

Sure, says I and soon I am fitted with a military outfit. I'm waiting and waiting. Suddenly the make-up lady comes back in the room giggling saying, "Hahaha, the girl is blowing the cameraguy!"

WHAT THE FUCK?!!! What happened to only a masturbation scene and pretty girls? "Oops, maybe I shouldn've have said anything," she says. I told her I needed to speak to the director right away. She went and got him and I said, "I thought this was supposed to only be a masturbation scene then pretty girls?" "Oh this is what we do, plus they know each other..." he says. Like it fucking matters that they know each other anyway...(???)

"Why didn't you tell me that part?" "Oh, this is what we shoot," he replied, which was a total fucking lie. I had just shot for him for the first time a few weeks ago and I know the model I shot with very well and she most certainly did not blow the cameraguy (whose name I will omit here but also works as talent). I know because I called and asked her later. Then he says to me, "You should tell me before the scene about this stuff." He had the nerve to say. Yeah, right. Like I'm gonna say to everybody who ever books me for a boy/girl scene, "Say, uh, could you make sure the girl I'm gonna work with doesn't blow the cameraguy before I work with her?" People would think I was crackers! Gimme a fuckin' break!

So I said, "This is totally disrepectful. You pay me a lot of money to be here then you keep me waiting while she blows another guy that you never mentioned once that she was even going to be doing. You should've told me ahead of time that this was really what the scene was and I could've told you then without incident to find somebody else because I wasn't into it and nobody would've gotten their time wasted. And time being money, I feel like I deserve a cancellation fee." He says, "I'm not given you a cancellation fee." "But you didn't tell me the truth about what the scene was. I lost money here today because you weren't straight up about the scene. I could've worked for somebody else today or you could've been straight up with me. If you don't give me a cancellation fee, I'm going to the press," I replied.

"Go ahead," he sneered, "I'm a nice guy in this business, you think anyone will believe you." He laughed, reminding me of the scene between the teacher and the "Bender" character in "The Breakfast Club." What an asshole, I thought. "We'll see what male talent wants to work for you after knowing you pull this shady shit," I said. "Well, why don't you come back over here and we'll settle it outside before you go to the press," he threatened. Please, I thought. Put the pipe down, buddy. You're fucking dreamin'. If you know this mook, he's a six foot tall sweaty fuckin' twig in coke bottle glasses, not even worth the aggravation of sore knuckles. "Whatever dude..." I said.

So here I am making good on my promise to warn my fellow male talent to be aware of this idiot. Let me ask you this: what if they never even told me that this girl got jizzed on her minutes before I worked with ther? Shouldn't I be able to know that so that I at least get to see the guy's test before I work with her? How would I have ever even known to ask? They sure as shit weren't gonna tell me. Shouldn't I have the right to decide what kind of scenes I want to do and at least expect the director to be honest about what the scene entails? Instead, it was just like that Eminem lyric, "Why? So you guys can just lie, just to get me here?"

This mook is a liar who has just started shooting hardcore footage and just has no clue and he thinks it's the sleazy eighties in porn all over again and that's just the way things are done. Well, he's wrong. Most of us who work as talent in this new millenium of porn are hard-working professionals who take our jobs very seriously and should only expect and demand the same professionalism from production. Right? So to anybody who still wants to work for this beginner, remember: watch your back and make sure you can't get booked on something else first. Just a little word to the wise to my brothers-in-porn...