I’M NOT going to try and put some arty spin on it or dress it up in fancy clothes. I’m a guy, a slightly evolved monkey, and I went on a porn set. This is what I learnt.
Gonzo, Nick and Parv throw out the travel books and backpacker guides and hit the highways of USA to explore some of the country’s lesser seen subcultures.
To give some background, myself and two other guys had decided to quit our jobs, buy a dodgy car, cruise across the USA and film our whole adventure in the hope of making a documentary series at the end of it all.
We had no plan, other than to throw ourselves in the deep end of a whole manner of strange scenes and hope for the best.
We didn’t know it would end up yielding the six-part documentary series Unplanned America, but we sure are glad we did it.
Early on we learnt that just by saying “Hey we’re filming for Australian TV” you could actually get yourself into places that most people couldn’t access, and that’s when one of us had the great idea to contact Vivid Entertainment and ask if we could film on one of their sets.
They were surprisingly accommodating, and informed us that the following week they were filming Austin Powers XXX, a porn parody.
We were welcome to head down and film whatever we wanted (although some of the more graphic bits were off-limits).
We were OK with that.
On our way to the set the nerves started to kick in. I started to bite my nails a lot. For some reason, I felt like a little kid. In my head I imagined a scene out of the movie Boogie Nights.
It would be a place of drugs, music and dark seedy corners where bimbos with fake boobs were doing cocaine and doing unspeakable things to their bosses.
Man, I couldn’t have been more wrong.
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