Porn Valley- I mention to Derrick Pierce that he has the Ben English look going. Pierce rolls his eyes. Which is kind of funny because Pierce is with L.A. Direct Models, so he must hear this all the time. I met Pierce last week on the set of Cytherea's anal movie for Cytherea Productions. Pierce has been in the business about nine months but has been performing scenes about six weeks. His fiancee is Lexi Tyler."She's the one that inititally started in the business," he points out.
Pierce gives me his porn industry resume prior to performing. I tell him it sounds an awful lot like being a suitcase pimp. Pierce says call it what you will. "I am happy to have that label," he laughs. "That does not bother me at all."
"I was helping Lexi," Pierce continues. "Just being the meet & greet guy and rounding up work for her and getting her contacts." Pierce met Tyler at the gym.
"It was one of those coincidences," he says. "She ended up staring at me a little too long and I ended up asking her out. We've been together ever since." Pierce says, flatly, that he lied his way to doing his first scene.
"They asked me if I had been doing stuff- I said, yeah, I've been doing a lot of Internet-stuff. I was bullshitting my way around. I have a few other friends in the business. I said, look, if somebody calls you and asks if I worked for you before, lie and just say yes. They said no problem."
"So I lied my way on to the first set," Pierce continues. "I had no idea about blocking. I had no idea about opening up- the only thing I said is I'm kind of new. My first scene was with Vanessa Lane. That girl is crazy in a good way. She's cool. The director was Guy Capo. Guy is the shit. I love Guy. It was for Gothsend 4. Guy did a write up on me for www.pornstarperformance.com. I heard about it- then I called him and told him it was my first scene ever. He swore up and down that I was lying. I said, no, but I appreciate the opportunity. He goes that's scary. From there it was relatively easy."
Asked how he hooked up with L.A. Direct, Pierce said through the grapevine, pretty much, that Tyler had spent some time with the Tera Patrick agency.
"I was with World- damn near every guy starts with World," says Pierce. "Jim South's a great guy - he just sits in his office and expects everybody to call him. But that's not what I'm about. I'm more about the hustle. And that's what I heard about L.A. Direct, that Derek is very much the hustler and does very much what I think an agent should do- which is put his people out there and get them work. If there's one thing Derek, does it's get you work. We met with Derek and ironically enough, he knew who I was already which was a good thing. So we've been with him ever since. He's not the nicest guy in the world but he always has the best of intentions. If you can deal with him being a real agent, then he'll love you to death."
Pierce and Tyler have never worked in front of the camera. Tyler is still doing girl-girl, he says. "At the moment," says Pierce. "We are in negotiations with a few people for contracts and then we'll explore to what capacity she wants to do the boy-girl stuff. She wants to try it."
Getting back to the gym story, I ask Pierce what his move was.
"Something completely retarded," he laughs. "I think it was about the logo on her hat. It was something dumb. It's funny because she was getting ready to move back to Oregon at that time. She had already gotten rid of all her furniture. She put in her notice at her apartment. She called her parents- she was going to stay at her parents' house. She made a lot of money through dancing. So she was already set in moving. That was when we met, and from that first night she called her parents a week later- I'm not coming home. They had a conniption-fit about it. At that time she was just stripping. So her plans, obviously, were to stop dancing then go home and figure out what she wanted to do. She ended up staying and she got a townhouse, supposedly for herself. Then right before she went back home to visit she told me you better have all your stuff moved into the townhouse before I get back. I was, that will work- and we've been together ever since."
I asked Pierce if he and Tyler are dealing with the couple-in-porn-issue.
"It's been an issue but in a very abstract sense because she doesn't shoot boy-girl," he replies. "Our paths don't cross on set and we haven't had too many issues. But we're very communicative as to what's going on. Obviously I'm not going home and saying this girl did an incredible blowjob and I popped in her eye. If she asks me how work was, I'll say it was good. If something unusual happened, I'd tell her about it. But we don't get into details and that goes both ways. She doesn't want to be on set when I'm working and I don't want to be on set when she's working unless I have to hold a camera."
"How about you working with other women?" I ask Pierce.
"She says as long as no girls come up talking about I fucked your man yesterday, we'll be cool," says Pierce. "She has a bad temper and is quick to knock somebody out."
For his part, Pierce was a problematic and mischievous kid growing up.
"I drove my mom up the wall," he says. "I was into everything and anything on both sides of the law. But that waned in the later years. It had its moments- my mom didn't think that I would make it past 16."
"Most likely to be in an obituary?"
"She thought for sure I'd be dead or in jail," says Pierce, purposefully vague. Pierce was also getting a lot of ass in high school. He wasn't vague about that.
"Ever since I was 13," he says. "My first experience was 13- she was like 15. I never had an orgasm with her- I'd climb in through her window at night, sneak out of my house- that kind of stuff. I was probably seeing her for a year. I was still in junior high at the time but it was pretty much out of sight, out of mind after she moved on to high school. It kind of waned. Over the years I always had an affinity for women and they always seem to like to talk to me. That's probably from growing up with just my mom. My mom did a pretty good job." Mom also knows that Pierce is dating a porn star.
"She says that's not what she had in the master plan," says Pierce. "I think in a round about way she saw it coming. My mom's pretty intuitive. And judging from my lifestyle choices in the past, I'm sure she figured I was always a step away from a camera and a girl's ass."
According to Pierce, he has yet to meet a girl who's given him a hard time on the set. "I think a lot of those girls come from guys who are not sensitive to the girl. I think after awhile guys can become insensitive with it. But as long as you keep your head on straight and talk to the girls, converse with them and get a little bit of connection with them before you work together, they'll always be cool with you. It doesn't take but a little bit of effort. I figure for the amount of time I've been in- I've been in for a month and a half- I've already done four features and I'm a nobody. In the overall broad scheme of things, people know a name but they don't really know me.
"None of my stuff is really on the shelves except for a few titles. It's just that I have good conversation with a lot of the girls- like Austyn Moore from Adam & Eve. She's been requesting me and her husband has been requesting me for them. She's got guys like Evan Stone and Tommy Gunn on her list- top notch guys. So here I am Derrick Pierce on the bottom of the page and I know they're looking at it, going who the fuck is that guy? I don't even know this guy. But if you're cool with them, they'll be cool with you back. Help support them and don't give them a hard time. They'll request you all the time from what I see."
