Rocco Siffredi Interview

11/14/04

 

HCG: How long have you been shooting on this movie?

RS: Now since the 7^th of September until the 21^st, and then we had a break for two and a half months because I got into a bike accident. I broke two ribs and had some problems with my knee. So we came back last week to shoot the final part of this Vivid film in the USA.

 

HCG: Where did you have the bike accident?

RS: Budapest. In the dirt.

 

HCG: Was it part of the shooting?

RS: No, no.

 

HCG: Because you shot there as well.

RS: It was just for fun. I did it on the day off. I was just trying to have some fun.

 

HCG: Was it in Buda or Pest?

RS: Pest.

 

HCG: Where do you live?

RS: Budapest and Rome. I have two children that go to school in Budapest, but I also still love Rome.

 

HCG: Not to point out the obvious, but rumor had it that you were retired, and yet here you are doing this film. Were the rumors of your retirement true?

RS: Yes. This is my last movie. People think that I am just saying this, but that I won’t do it. Basically I have been over shooting this last year and shooting double the amount of material I normally would. So I told people that I am retiring, but I shot a lot of stuff. I am retiring as an actor now, from January 2005 on, there will be no more sex for me. But at the same time, my movies will be released until the end of 2006, because I double produced to give me enough time to make the changes I wanted to make to my product. I am a little fucked up regarding my new way to shoot. Up until today I have been producing my own movies for 12 years now. I have never had a great problem with shooting, like having to stop and think, how am I going to do this movie.

 

HCG: Right.

RS: I always was the guy who would do the great scenes, the strong scenes, the scenes that make the movie. So I never really worried about making movies.

 

HCG: I see.

RS: Now that I am not so much in front of the camera anymore, I am starting to have that kind of problem, because I am always searching for myself in front of the camera, but I hardly ever find it.

 

HCG: Who does that for you?

RS: Nacho Vidal was one of the guys who really made me think that I was there again.

 

HCG: Does he still work for you?

RS: No, he has been losing that for the last couple of years because he has started producing for himself, for his own lines, so he is choosing actually a different streak, veering towards she males. To me, I am still focused on the girls. I think that what he is doing is sexy, in some way, but I need to be able to understand it.

 

HCG: It’s just not your style then?

RS: No.

 

HCG: Despite being retired as a performer, are you still going to be directing?

RS: All the time. What the fuck else would I do?

There is some speculation that you might plan on throwing yourself more into mainstream projects in the absence of your work as talent, especially with the international release of ANATOMY OF HELL. Is there any truth to that?

I am doing another movie like that, a new movie, it’s going to be my biggest actually, over eight weeks shooting in Italy.

 

HCG: Who is directing that?

RS: Alex Infascelli.

 

HCG: What else has he directed?

RS: He directed Almost Blue. Almost Blue won a couple of awards at the David di Donatello awards.

 

HCG: What kind of attention have you gotten for your role in ANATOMY OF HELL?

RS: Truthfully it has been nice that I haven’t got any bad reviews, in the world, no one, because the movie was pretty bad.

 

HCG: I heard mixed reviews about it.

RS: Well…

 

HCG: Did it freak you out to play a gay guy?

RS: No. Honestly, not too much, because for me to get a blowjob from a guy would have been easier than to kiss the guy. I thought the kiss was too much because it was too intimate, but the blowjob would have been easier because I can make my dick hard, whatever.

 

HCG: You can close your eyes.

RS: It’s what we do, we are used to just getting hard. I thought for the movie, it would have been much more right to have a kiss, that is why I did it. Nobody forced me to do it. It was my idea, so that people would look at me like a real actor and not just Rocco Siffredi the porn star. Who is going to believe I’m gay?

 

HCG: You don’t like men and you don’t like transsexuals.

RS: Is that a question you are asking me or are you stating a fact?

 

HCG: I think I am stating a fact.

RS: You are.

 

HCG: You’ve made some amazingly large budget feature movies, like ROCCO NEVER DIES. What are your favorite types of movies to make, action versus drama, and what have you loved making?

RS: Did you see the ASS COLLECTOR?

 

HCG: No.

RS: You would probably like it better than ROCCO NEVER DIES.

 

HCG: So what’s the difference between the two?

RS: Without even a doubt, those kinds of movies like the Paul Thomas movie I am doing now, they are big fun. It makes you feel like you are a real actor, but truthfully, they are not my preference. I prefer to do movies where you can go to another level of fantasy sexually. Titles I have loved are NEVER SAY NEVER TO ROCCO and ROCCO MORE THAN EVER IN LONDON. In those movies the sex gets more attention than the rest. As a director I am someone who likes to get into the kinky and perverted stuff and tell the story but it must always be hot.

 

HCG: Hot.

RS: If it is only like ROCCO NEVER DIES, with all that super action, I can’t jerk off to it. I’m sorry, because I am saying this and I made it, but I couldn’t jerk off to it.

 

HCG: Everyone likes something different I suppose.

RS: But I always do those movies or other kinds of movies with the same passion. I like to believe that I never do something just to do it. I do it to put my soul into it. I just happen to like making movies that are more about sex than talking.

 

HCG: So naturally in all the time that you have been around, you have slept with a lot of women. RS: Do you know how many you have fucked on film?

I don’t quite know. I am releasing a book in 2005 about my life in this business through Atkin in France and I tried to count all the movies that I did. I made up to a thousand movies, perhaps a little bit more, and if you think that in each of those titles I slept with two or three different girls just imagine, that must be two or three thousand girls in the business. Some of the movies I shot I slept with ten women at one time.

 

HCG: Do you remember them all? That is quite a lot.

RS: Well, let me tell you a funny story. Recently I was on a bus and this women with two children was staring at me and she seemed familiar to me. Then when the bus stopped she came up to me and told me that we had worked together over a decade ago. I thought, even though I don’t remember them all by name, I knew her from sight, and she was much bigger then, because of the children. Once I have been inside of a woman I never forget her.

 

HCG: As you come to the end of your performing career, who among them stand out as your favorites? In other words, who do you love fucking?

RS: Listen to me. This is basic, because I don’t like to talk about people too much, but there are people that come into this business for money and then there are those that come into it for other reasons. When I started in this business I would have been willing to pay to be in it from my own pocket, that is how much I wanted to be in this business. Today, it’s funny saying that, because now I am probably the most paid actor in porn, because one day I decided that this was going to be my life. People told me that I was good, and I realized that I couldn’t work for everyone, because I would kill myself with work, so I raised my price several times, so that I could get to a point where only certain people could afford me. As an actor, I like working with girls who are here for the same reason I am here, to have fun and make good movies. They give you real scenes with real passion and no bullshitting. I hate bullshitting.

 

HCG: So can you name a girl like that in your estimation?

RS: Kelly Stafford, Deidre Holland…I had fun with Belladonna and a few girls in America, but usually it is just better working with European girls. They start out better I think. For example, in this movie, today is the last day of the movie, my last movie, and I didn’t get fucked one time right. Everything was just wrong. Once people are in a position of importance, it’s like they can’t just lower themselves and say let’s have fun. In every scene I have had to deal with problems of ego. Like my first scene of this movie, with Tawny Roberts, I got a black eye. I don’t know the reason.

 

HCG: I heard about that.

RS: Yeah but it wasn’t a big deal. It wasn’t a problem to me. Actually that scene was one of the nice ones, even though it was completely fucked up because she was drunk so I couldn’t fuck how I wanted to. I like this business when it is real, when it is natural, when we have fun.

 

HCG: Okay.

RS: Now, in seven or eight years I have only done two movies in America. One was FASHIONISTAS and then there is this one. That’s in eight years. The reason why is that I didn’t have too much time to come over and they called me to do this project and I thought, why not? Maybe it would be a nice way to end my career. Now I wonder. Maybe the movie will turn out good, but I doubt it. As an actor, I would have given so much more of myself to this movie that I couldn’t give. That is what pisses me off. But he, Paul Thomas, makes such an effort. He is a nice person, a nice director.

 

HCG: He is a great director.

RS: And he is honest. He sees the problems, and he knows how it is. We don’t understand why this movie just seemed to have so many problems. For example, with the main characters, Janine and I are supposed to have sex and all of a sudden she can’t take me.

 

HCG: So you and Janine never finished a scene for this movie?

RS: We did one scene and it was the worst in the whole movie. Today we are supposed to have sex again and we can’t so instead I am going to fuck the other girl in the scene.

 

HCG: Dascha?

RS: Yes, which I think is going to go well, I hope.

 

HCG: She is a Czech girl and you said you prefer Eastern European women.

RS: I really hope this scene will be great.

 

HCG: I am guessing that it will be a nice closer to your tremendous career.

RS: I sure hope so.

 

HCG: Well I appreciate your time and I thank you for the great interview.

RS: Thank you.