Sovereign Syre
Life often takes us in directions we’d never anticipate – the biology major finances mobile home sales (real person), the computer customer service rep works on the bomb squad (another real person). And sometimes, the over-amped academic is a porn star.
Sovereign Syre is that over-amped academic-cum-porn star. She became an adult performer in 2011 after having spent two years living and working in New York City as an art model. She was scouted by a woman director, whom she shot for exclusively in girl-girl only productions for one year. According to Syre, “It was definitely a charmed introduction into the adult industry.”
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Today, Syre has expanded her repertoire beyond ladies-only scenes and has become somewhat of a muse to another woman director, Dana Vespoli. She’s the star of Vespoli’s cerebral f*ck, Hollywood Babylon, along with several other mind-bending ventures, as well as conventional porno. (Last two links obvs NSFW)
I asked her to tell me some unexpected and/or interesting things about herself. This is what she said:
1. Jobs I’ve held before porn include: tarot card reader, ESL tutor, English 1 TA (which was a weird situation as I was the same age as most of my students. I had a hard time establishing any kind of authority), makeup artist, photo retoucher, atmosphere model [someone who is paid to be pretty and interested in the high rollers present at whatever party has hired you], freelance writer.
2. I taught myself to play guitar, bass, and piano. I’ve rebuilt the engine of a car and taught myself to use photoshop well enough to work as a professional retoucher. I can put cornrows in anyone’s hair.
3. I don’t have a reliable type. Men I’ve dated include: MMA fighter, Air Force pilot, TV journalist, newspaper editor, computer hacker, visual artist, drug dealer, landscape architect, photographer, stand-up comic.
4. I was raised a staunch atheist. I tried to be a Buddhist when I was 13, but it didn’t stick. I am fascinated with horoscopes, the I-Ching, and Catholic mysticism though.
5. I went to a performing arts high school to be a ballerina and an actress, but I developed a social anxiety/panic disorder, so switched over to playwriting.
6. I didn’t lose my virginity (with a guy) until I was 22. Like a war, I like to say that I lost my virginity “in living memory.”
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