Looks like Charlotte Stokely is the latest porn star to be employed by American Apparel. She joins other porn starlets like Sash Grey and Laurent Phoenix in becoming marketing tools to sell brand-free clothes for hipsters.
I don’t know about you, but I work in the porn industry and still the forced sexuality of their advertisements/stores totally gives me the creeps.
One of the most common emails I get at my day job are from guys wondering how they can break into the awesome world of the “industry”. If I’m feeling plucky enough to respond, I say start in gay porn and work your way up. Hey, no pain no gain right? That’s just what male talent, Christian did. Even if you’re a moderate porn enthusiast, chances are you’ve seen Christian grinding away on some starlet. With his blog christiansingstheblues.com, you get a day by day behind the scenes account of what its like to be a male porn star. Everything from the titillation of having sex with perfect strangers every day, the infighting and general immaturity that plagues porn valley, to the most mundane things like shopping at target and going out to eat at night.
In the adult industry, there a few girls that have the special little something which could make them a “star”; but because of bad agents, typecasting, or just plain old laziness, they never really make it anywhere. Ellie Idol is one of those girls. Her dark hair, and pale skin first caught my eye when she was featured in a video on brandibelle.com. At the time, I wasn’t able to find much of her work, but after some research I found that she booked under 3 different alias’. Luckily, I was able to get her email address and do an internet interview late last year before she “retired”, to learn a little bit more about her.
Ellie, Chloe, Collie, why so many alias’? What’s the definitive name you want to be known as? Well, when I first got into it, the first person I worked for told me he wanted me to go as Collie (which is actually my real name) because he thought it was cute and fitting of my personality. The second person I worked for ended up shooting me pretty regularly so he decided to make a website of it, but actually ended up recycling an old web address; dirtylittlechloe.com. The OLD Chloe was actually a cute petite little Asian girl. Now, Ellie Idol became my name when I started doing hardcore movies. Ellie is derived from my middle name and Idol well, to clear things up comes from BILLIE IDOL……not that crappy TV show American Idol (hope I didn’t offend anyone).
How did you get into the industry? My friend “Bailey Brooks” was doing it, I said to myself, “Hey, I watch porno, maybe I should be in one!” I contacted a Seattle based website and it just went from there.
You’ve mostly stuck to the “reality porn” genre, is this something you’ve purposely chosen to do? Not at all. My agent finds me work. Honestly, I’d love to do either more alternative stuff or stuff with themes, like Cosplay/fetish porn. The reality thing gets old…..and cheesy fast.
You obviously have the aesthetics to be in the whole “alt porn” thing. Do you plan to trying to do some “alt porn” in the future? Oh, I HOPE to be. I’d absolutely love to work with Vivid alt or hell, anything but reality porn. PLEASE! I am so sick of it. Haha… I’m also tired of playing the “innocent, naive” role. People who put me into that category obviously don’t know me all that well. I can play innocent sometimes, but really I’m a little sex demon when I want to be.
You’re from Seattle, do you live up there to stay sane and not be fully enveloped into the industry? Do you plan on making a permanent move to Los Angeles? I stay in Seattle for my friends, for my family, and my man. I’m not quite ready to make the transition to move to LA yet. Though I’m not saying it won’t happen eventually. I actually just started making payments on a house I bought up here in Seatown, so I can’t move just yet.
We all know the careers of women in porn tend to be a bit short. How much longer do you want to be a performer? Do you want to build a life-long career like say, Jenna Jameson? If you do plan on leaving the industry what would be the next chapter for Ellie Idol? Honestly, I want to be the one behind the scenes. I want to start my own company with my man and our friend, and film something different and more progressive for the industry. I hope we succeed!
What is the best thing you did in the past year? The best thing, would have to be getting rid of the people who were holding me back in life. I’ve moved on, and now feel like I can do anything.
What is your favorite purchase of the past year? My NINTENDO DS!!!! Holy crap. When you’re traveling……it really helps pass the time. I’m currently playing the new Zelda game. It’s very addicting!
What is your favorite sex act to do in your own time? Honestly, it’s not the act. It’s the person. Being able to have some really passionate loving sex with someone you love is the best. It doesn’t matter which way it’s done. Though I do like it doggy. <3
What kind of scenes would you like to do in the future that you haven’t already done? I’d love to do a feature sometime, though it seems as though that will soon become a reality. I just got casted to do a live-action make of a certain adult comic. I need to keep it hush-hush for now, but you’ll all see soon enough if you go to Comic-con next year! (Note: Ellie is talking about the live-action porno of Demi the Demoness. Where she gets her cos-play on by dressing up and having sex as a demoness with horns and wings!)
What are your favorite records/books/movies/art of the moment? Why? Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of the artist H.I.M. Everytime I put H.I.M. on, it puts me in this romantic dreamy state. I love it. I love his voice. It’s the ultimate in sexiness. My god. Also been listening to a lot of punk lately. It’s good party music. As far as books go, I don’t read many. I mostly read comic books (haha) but almost every book I’ve been willing to pick up has been by Chuck Palanuik. I fucking LOVE him. Hey, isn’t he from Seattle too?
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