Doing It All with Ashlynn Brooke

Interviewer
Ashlynn Brooke
Here we are with the very lovely Ashlynn Brooke.

Hello.

Hell-O, and may I say that you are looking fan-freaking-tastic.

Thank you very much, that's very sweet of you.

 A lot of girls in the business change their hair colour on a pretty regular basis from blonde, to black, to some kind of outrageous green.  But you've always stayed blonde or at LEAST mostly blonde. Is it a personal preference or do blondes just have more fun?

Well, I think it's a little bit of both. I've been blond since I was 18 years old and I'm 24 now. So I mean that's when I started the process, and I enjoy being blonde and then I let the underneath grow out so I've got the blonde and the dark because my natural hair colour is REALLY dark.  So... I think one day eventually later on, I'll go back to dark but I kind of just contracted with New Sensations and have been for the past three years and we're just under the guideline of, “If it an't broke don't fix it” kind of thing.

Can't argue with that. Now, from what I've been able to find out and I'm not 100% sure if it's true or not, but you've never done anal before. Am I correct?

Nope.

Why?

 Umm.. you know I just... it's just that I really don't think that I'm supposed to do it.  I've tried it, I've wanted to. I've... you know... played with it but any kind of actual anal penetration just doesn't work for me.  I would love for it to be able to but it's just not gonna happen.

Fair enough. So for this interview, I had to do a lot of strenuous research and let's just say I was HARD at work ...

Good one!

Thank you. It's the only really good joke I have and I use it as often as I can.  But in doing it and scouring the fan sites and the forums, I've read a lot of ,“We wanna see Ashlynn Brooke doing anal” and, “We wanna see Ashlynn Brooke doing DP”,but if it's not for you it's not for you so I guess they are just out of luck.

 For right now, yeah. I just don't think it's gonna happen.

Ahh well, and we flip the page.  Do you think your extra petite look gives you an edge because I mean you're only something like what 5 foot 2?

 Yep 5'2.

5'2, exquisite, well built, well packed, mind numbingly beautiful. But do you think that the extra petite label gives you an edge?

I don't know. I believe that women should have curves, a little bit of meat on them. I mean they should look womanly having things where they belong, and I think I've got it in all the right places.  I've got a good, sizable butt, the boobs and everything and a lot of people when they come up to me at these signings or what have you, say to me ,“ Wow, you're really tiny. I thought you were big.” So I guess that I photograph and video much bigger than I actually look and they always say, “Damn,” because I'm so short.

 Well, I've been watching a lot of scenes over the past week, so much in fact that it was almost torture, but I'm willing to do it again for the sake of my work and when I finally got to size and measurements, I never in a million years would have guessed 5'2.

Yep, you would have guessed taller.

Maybe like ... 5'6, 5'7 at the most but certainly not 5'2 because it just doesn't seem like you're that tiny.  You're just a little, tiny, red hot firecracker.

Thank you. I like being small because the guy can like throw you around if he wants.

( My only response to this was a raised eyebrow and a goofy grin. )

You've starred in a lot of the new wave of parody porn such as WKRP in Cincinnati, The X Files, Entourage and even my personal favourite ,That 70's Show, which I bought and worn out the DVD in certain places. But do you think this new wave of them is just a trendy fad because they are popping up everywhere now or are they just kinky fun and you think they will last?

- -  It is hard to say.  Some people think that it's new but parodies have been done for years and years and years. So, I think that what we've done is created some kind of system or method of shooting them that just sort of works for us you know?  I think that in the past it's been done very well but we've hit something that just works, and so we're gonna keep doing it until it fizzles out and I don't know if it will ever fizzle out... probably.  It probably will pop in and out just like everything else.  But right now we're having a lot of fun doing it.

Are you a big fan of any of the ones you've done like The Office, 30 Rock and what I mean is when they are casting them you jump up and say, “Yes! I get to be Laurie” ( 70's Show) or I get to be... blah...

Yeah, it can be like that. The Office was my favourite thus far, well one of them. I'll talk about my real favourite next. I mean because it was kind of our defining moment. We shot it, we thought it was good, we thought it was fun.  But then ,when it hit the shelves it was like, .. “OH MY GAWD:... We got so much feed back. It was really cool and playing Steve Carell's character, you just can't do it.  You can't match his genius, it's just one of a kind.  But just being able to do these is fun because the show is already created for you, the characters are already there. We just take that and make an exact replica, only sexier.  So it's a lot of fun to do but I'm a huge fan of The Office and I'm a fan of That 70's Show. Well, when it was on. I then wrote, directed, and kind of helped produce and was kind of involved in almost everything for True Blood: A Triple X Parody.

Wait. Hang on before I pass out from joy. You guys are gonna parody True Blood?

Yes.

Well, who are you playing? Please please tell me you're playing the lead.

Yes, I'm playing Sookie, and it was so much fun to do. I mean it helps when you're a huge fan but it was so cool when I was writing it and I was like “ughh... this is so cool”.  It was my first, not to write, but the first script that I've written that we actually produced. Shooting the whole thing was just amazing and playing the characters and now I just have a different appreciation and a different kind of attachment to the show because now I feel kind of personally connected, well at least a little bit anyway.  We got the cast and everyone looked almost dead on, but I don't think I looked very much like Sookie,

I think you look better.

 Thank you, but the guy we got to play Eric and Bill was just ... so ... oh it was so cool to see it all and all the blood and killing and junk .. you're just gonna love it.

When does it come out?

It's gonna come out, I'm thinking right now about the end of January. We wanna push it back to when the show starts again, so about mid January.

 And may I say that's the best news I've heard all week. Getting back to my current favourite topic, which of course, is you, your website (ashlynnbrooke.com)is IMPRESSIVELY interactive with one Hell of a sexy tone. Do you work on it yourself, or do you have a team of geeks chained up in your basement?

Well, we do have a webmaster and my site is through, New Sensations, and we have one of the best affiliate programs out there. But what I do is update it to keep it personal. I update the calendar and I do the polls and all that stuff.  I'm going to start video blogging. Well it's gonna be kind of a mix between a video blog and a webisode, so it'll be like a little 10 or 15 minute webisode. Then I'll blog about it, so yeah I work really hard on my website. It's really important for me to be accessible to my fans.

I totally understand, and I've gotta say it's a great site. I took advantage of every single possible free feature it had to offer and if I got paid better, I would have definitely subscribed.

Lovely.

What did it mean to you to take home so many “Best” awards at the 2009 A.V.Ns because you took home a lot of best that year.

Yeah, I took in three best and I was, I dunno, I can't describe the feeling. I mean for only being my third year in the business and at that point I was only two years in and it was my third AVN to be at. The very first one I had sat up in the nose bleeds because I had only been in for three months and no one knew who I was.  Then the next year, it was cool, and then the next just to be nominated was such a great feeling and then to actually win... wow!  Now I don't measure success by wining things but it's very humbling and flattering to be recognized and appreciated for all the hard work that we do because we work hard. Not just me of course, but all of us, we work very, very hard so it was really great.

Figured it would. Another best you took home in 2009 was, “New Comer” at the Exotic Dancer Awards and I know a lot of feature dancers and the world of feature dancing is incredibly competitive.

It IS!

So how did it feel bringing that home in 2009 as well?

Well you know, it was weird because I didn't know just HOW competitive it really is.  I'm a feature because I'm an adult performer and clubs bring me in and I just go have fun, I go have fun and I interact with the crowd and I do that sort of thing.  I don't have one of these big elaborate shows with fireman outfits, clown outfits and whatever else these girls do, I don't have that.  I go out and I dance like I'm having a good time and so it's still a little, not weird but it's just really odd being honoured for something you get to have so much fun doing.  I don't know if I'll ever get used to that because I just don't expect it. I just keep doing what I love and it keeps working out like that.

You're doing more feature dancing now... do you think you'll start to incorporate a bigger show? Or just keep it “fun.”

I think I'm gonna do a little bit of both because when I first started dancing, I was just an adult performer.  People come to see me in public because I'm the girl that's just having fun, not really putting on a show for people. You come, you hang out with me, we'll relax, joke around and have a good time.  But I dunno, maybe I'll start incorporating more stuff into it but you know what, I need to get used to it more. I'm still so new to it and I'm still learning but I will keep at it because if I keep dancing, people will start to know me as,“That Girl,” who is just calm and collected. You come, we'll chill out and all have a good time, kind of, and all hang out together sort of thing. So, I wanna keep it as much as myself as possible because I was a cheerleader/dancer for years and years and I can bring it!

Now, you're currently performing at, Treasure's Gentlemen's Club in Toronto and thanks to them, we get to have you here at the show, and I'm gonna take a quick second to say ... thank you for coming and then ask if this is your first time working a Canadian venue?

Yeah, this is my first time out of the country, period.

Wow, first time out of the country ?

Yes.

So how are you liking it up here north of the border?

So far, so good.  It's very beautiful up here, VERY clean, it's really pretty. I like it.

We try.  At night, we have roving bands of hockey gangs/teams out on the streets and they use litter for pucks, so they keep most of the trash to a minimum.

Yes, I'm sure... that's how I always imagined Canada to be.

Yes, all the stereotypes are soo true.....eh?  What's the difference, if any, between an American and a Canadian crowd?

Well....

Aside from our goofy accents, of course.

(laugh) Oh it's not that bad. It's just like a northern accent, like a Wisconsin accent or something, but I didn't really notice the difference, or anything, till I was up on stage the first night and I was dancing my heart out and everyone was having a good time.. I thought. But no one was tipping me and I was like, “What's the deal?”  and I was wondering if something was wrong, so I started asking everyone as they came over to buy movies and sign autographs. So I asked this guy, “Did I do something wrong?”  So he said, “ Well no, but we only have fives and we don't really tip the girls but we'll get up on stage so you can dance on us.” So in America, you get millions ... well not millions but hundreds of one dollar bills flying at you, because they wad em up and throw them at you, but here you don't get that at all but you get 5s, 10s, and 20s, as opposed to that.  It's actually kind of a nice change because you don't have to un-wad all the ones when you're done.

Not to mention, I don't think you want a bunch of Loonies flying at you.  ( For American readers, the Canadian dollar is a coin with a loon on it and it's nicknamed the Looney, and would probably really hurt if it got tossed at you since it's a pretty big coin. )

Yeah, that's what everyone keeps telling me, “They don't want to throw Loonies at me”, and I was like, “What's a Loony,” but I eventually figured out that it's a Canadian dollar.  So yeah, I didn't even think about that and they also said that they didn't want to disrespect me by throwing them on stage and I was like yeah... I probably would have thrown them right back at you.  But that's pretty much the only difference and the Canadian public is very, very nice, very, very accommodating.

How do you like, The Everything To Do With Sex Show?

It's very comparable to  AVN,I mean VERY, very. It's bigger on the inside. The only difference is all the major companies aren't here with all their booths set up but I have not seen a convention so busy in years and its only Saturday and it's only like 5 'o clock in the afternoon, and it's only going to get busier.

Well, it's almost winter so we wanna pick up all of our naughty stuff before the snow falls and going out for a giant dildo doesn't mean fighting through a snow storm or a 5 foot snow drift.

Yeah, I would imagine.

Because some times, it's like... damn ... well I ain't shovelling that .. break out the KY and the video camera dear.

( laughs ) So are there a lot of summer babies born in Canada?

Yep.

Nothing else to do in the winter?

Nope, you peel back the drapes, look outside and it's like.... “Oh, Honey.....”

Oh, wow, yeah.

What do you think of the so called Extreme Porn that's out there?  Like the kind that Audrey Hollander does and the kind of stuff that is simply geared towards and I hate to use the phrase, but to “ruin” the female actress.

Well, anatomically you know, it doesn't ruin her, but anatomically it is pretty damned bad for your body but that's the great thing about our business. There is something out there for everyone, because everyone has a different sexual preference. I mean, I don't care how alike two people are in everything else, almost always they are gonna like two different things sexually. So you've got a scratch for every itch. So if that's what people like, then GO for it.  If that's what she wants to do,because you mentioned Aubrey, so I was going with her, but that's what those people want to do, and Danny for me, that's what keeps our business going and makes the world go round.

Well yeah, I was just curious because it seems to be getting more and more and more extreme and the budgets keep getting lower and lowe

Well, I think in this society, people think that people have to add as much shock value as they can.

Makes sense. So you're a writer, director now .. are we still going to be seeing you in front of the camera or are we?

No, no, no, you're still going to be seeing me in front of the camera, but my career is going down a different path at the moment and that doesn't mean I'm going to stop performing just yet. I want to contribute more to the business I love so much.  I really, really love writing and directing. I've just started and I don't want to say that I feel like I'm like a kid in a candy store, like all, “Oh my god this is great.” because eventually, I don't want that feeling to ever fizzle out because if that feeling fizzles out then you know you're doing something wrong.  So, I want to continue to learn and I want to continue to grow as a businesswoman and I'm trying to be more professional about things I don't always have to. But I wanna still perform, and I wanna do a lot more girls.  My career thus far has been like 95% guys and that's fine but I like girls the same , so I'm looking forward to a lot more girl stuff.  Which I have started doing. I just directed an all girl movie just recently, so we'll see how that does and I'm writing another all girl parody of a popular show. I'm writing it and you never know how that stuff is going to turn out, but I'm writing it anyway and we'll see.

Please tell me it's Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer? We actually have been in talks for doing that but that's not the one.

You're slowly killing me with wish fulfilment.

It's an all girl, it was a popular show on showtime, it just ended like last year, it went on for like six seasons, it was just like an all girl epic, and it's gonna be an all girl parody. The True Blood script that I wrote and directed, co-directed if you could call it that because I'm still learning, and with big productions like that, there is still a lot I don't know, so I need a good production crew behind me and I have that. So this next one that I'm writing, I'm gonna try and do all by myself. Well not ALL by myself but direct it and still have one of our other directors, Lee Roy Myers, the guy who does all of our parodies and have him behind me, and the rest of our team we have assembled who are all great.  So, yeah, I wanna do more girls,  I wanna branch out, and just like anyone else in this world,I just want to have a secure future.

Fair enough, I, for one, am very much looking forward that, and let's see here, page flippy, nope unfortunately, I can no longer keep up the ruse of interviewer to keep you here by my side since I've apparently run out of questions.

You have?

Sad but true. This is goodbye.

Bye, bye.

    
                       

    The staff at XXXToronto.com ,would like to thank Ashlynn Brooke for coming north of the border and for spending so much time with us at the, Everything To Do With Sex Show.  We would also like to thank Treasure's for bringing her here to put on a show for her fans and sign autographs for the insane line of people that snaked around the convention hall.  We are all very much looking forward to everything that Ashlynn will be doing in the near future and will no doubt be camping on the doorstep of our local porn shops ( we do normally but this time it's for another reason ) to get her latest and no doubt, soon to be, award winning releases.