French adult star Marilyn Jess casts for possible new adult stars.French adult star Marilyn Jess casts for possible new adult stars.French adult star Marilyn Jess casts for possible new adult stars.
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Early French reality porn
Invented in the early '80s with pioneering titles like Anthony Spinelli's REEL PEOPLE and Zachary Strong's LITTLE SHOWOFFS. Shot - unlike those entries - on video, the French ACTEURS X series takes one step closer toward the genre's future, eschewing gauzy fantasy fulfillment for live, real-time sex filmed on a single location.
Hosting this outing is the winsome Marilyn Jess, who was beginning to wrap up her career at this point and, despite occasionally pulling down her blouse or flashing her privates, declines to get in on the actual sex. Instead, she takes on the role of emcee, interviewing the contenders and faithfully jotting down notes on her little notepad before these individuals get to strut their stuff with a duo of willing professionals.
For an hour-long video, the piece has a surprisingly robust (uncredited) cast. The first trio are all musicians: nerdy-handsome Alain plays the synthesizer and looks it, while the second guy is a total dud who can't get hard. The third, an early-20s guitar instructor whose wavy and voluminous locks must have had plenty of his students swooning, is the first to deliver a real sex scene and ejaculation. Of particular note following is a well-built black nurse who gets in on multiple scenes, either a pinch-hitter brought in by the crew or a future sex star in the making. The film climaxes with what at the time would have been considered a shocker: a mousy secretary strips off her modest clothes to reveal she's a pre-operative transsexual. Interestingly, despite professing a preference for other women, she's left to her own devices, cordoned off from the rest of the try-outs.
ACTEURS is primarily interesting for the frisson provided by its real-time videography, as well as for its inversion of the usual roles for which the genre would become known. While later juggernauts like DIRTY DEBUTANTES and UP AND CUMMERS would be structured around the sexual initiation of an endless stream of novitiates by seasoned male pros, ACTEURS devotes itself to the opposite, putting male newbies (with the exception of its final participant) in the spotlight. There's a subversive interest to seeing guys, generally the dominant force in hetero pornography, squirm against the experience of Miss Jess, her self-assuredness and comfort before the camera providing stark contrast to their nervous reticence. For those who get a thrill out of seeing handsome men put on the spot (particularly by sexually aggressive women), the video will certainly appeal. I can't pretend it's dynamite porn by today's standards, but it's nevertheless an interesting curio from the birth of the reality genre and worth seeking out, for porn historians and fans of Jess alike.
Hosting this outing is the winsome Marilyn Jess, who was beginning to wrap up her career at this point and, despite occasionally pulling down her blouse or flashing her privates, declines to get in on the actual sex. Instead, she takes on the role of emcee, interviewing the contenders and faithfully jotting down notes on her little notepad before these individuals get to strut their stuff with a duo of willing professionals.
For an hour-long video, the piece has a surprisingly robust (uncredited) cast. The first trio are all musicians: nerdy-handsome Alain plays the synthesizer and looks it, while the second guy is a total dud who can't get hard. The third, an early-20s guitar instructor whose wavy and voluminous locks must have had plenty of his students swooning, is the first to deliver a real sex scene and ejaculation. Of particular note following is a well-built black nurse who gets in on multiple scenes, either a pinch-hitter brought in by the crew or a future sex star in the making. The film climaxes with what at the time would have been considered a shocker: a mousy secretary strips off her modest clothes to reveal she's a pre-operative transsexual. Interestingly, despite professing a preference for other women, she's left to her own devices, cordoned off from the rest of the try-outs.
ACTEURS is primarily interesting for the frisson provided by its real-time videography, as well as for its inversion of the usual roles for which the genre would become known. While later juggernauts like DIRTY DEBUTANTES and UP AND CUMMERS would be structured around the sexual initiation of an endless stream of novitiates by seasoned male pros, ACTEURS devotes itself to the opposite, putting male newbies (with the exception of its final participant) in the spotlight. There's a subversive interest to seeing guys, generally the dominant force in hetero pornography, squirm against the experience of Miss Jess, her self-assuredness and comfort before the camera providing stark contrast to their nervous reticence. For those who get a thrill out of seeing handsome men put on the spot (particularly by sexually aggressive women), the video will certainly appeal. I can't pretend it's dynamite porn by today's standards, but it's nevertheless an interesting curio from the birth of the reality genre and worth seeking out, for porn historians and fans of Jess alike.
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- Davian_X
- Feb 28, 2023
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