HOLLYWOOD - It was a dynamic duo that regaled the small audience at Hustler Hollywood last night: Georgina Spelvin, best known for her role as Justine Jones in the classic XXX film The Devil In Miss Jones, and Bay Area author/activist David Henry Sterry.Spelvin was there to read from her acclaimed autobiography, "The Devil Made Me Do It". Sterry, who assisted The "DMJ" actress with her memoir, was promoting his own book, "Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates and Chippendales."
Spelvin, looking tiny and a bit ill-at-ease as she approached the microphone, began by recounting her entry into the world of adult films, which occurred after she answered an ad in the Village Voice for production work on "what they call tits 'n' ass movies" in the early '70s. Once on the set, she found herself playing the role of the mother in the softcore film ... and so it began.
"So I played the role," Spelvin told the audience, "and at the end of the thing, one of the lighting technicians came over to me and said, 'Would you be interested in playing the mother? I'm doing this film called High Priestess of Sexual Witchcraft, and I need someone to play the mother.' And he had an actual script ... So obviously, it was a legitimate offer, so I took the script and I read it and it seemed okay and I said, 'Fine, a hundred dollars a day is a hundred dollars a day,' and so I signed up to do this film. And we shot all of these exteriors and running shots - it was high production stuff, with car chases and all this stuff, and then of course we got to the scene I refer to as the Oedipal scene, where the mother seduces the son - and it was in the script, but that's about all it said."
What it required, though, was hardcore sex. Spelvin, ever the professional, simply did what the director called for ... all of which is detailed marvelously in her book.
Spelvin also talked about how she was "outed" as a porn star to her family: Her brother had seen a review of Devil by famous mainstream critic Judith Crist in Newsweek, together with a photo of Spelvin in a bustier, and wanted to double-check whether that was indeed his sister.
A Q&A period followed the readings, with Spelvin relating her first visit to Larry Flynt's offices as part of her work on the "Henri Pachard Project," which she said Hustler Video would be releasing in the next few weeks.
"I was impressed when I saw the Louvre," Spelvin gasped, "but when I saw Larry Flynt's office, I was just ... I can't describe it."
When asked about the differences between having sex with Devil co-star Harry Reems on- and off-camera, Spelvin said: "Well, I never had sex with Harry outside of making films, and having sex in the course of making a film is a totally different sexual experience than real sex."
Reminiscing about Reems, she added, "As an actor, he's incredible. He's just wonderful: Focused, constantly in the scene and never lost his concentration or anything else - and that's not a small consideration when you're making that kind of a movie."
Asked if she regretted her career as an adult actress, Spelvin replied, "I'm very proud of the work that I did because I did the work as work. It doesn't make any difference to me whether I'm drinking from a bottle or kissing a cock; whatever's in the script, I do. And I always try to do what the script calls for, the very, very best that I can. I'm an approval junkie. Pat me on the head and that's all that I need. Yes, I'm glad to try it. Jump off of that 12-foot tower or bureau? Of course I will! I can't believe some of the things I did because it just never occurred to me that I couldn't."
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