A chat with Savanna Samson
By Cindi Loftus courtesy of Xcitement magazine
12/31/04
The first thing you’ll notice about Savanna Samson is that she is beautiful;
the next thing will be her warm smile. After you talk to her for a few
minutes you’ll discover her intellect, her sense of humor and how open
and easy to talk to she is. However the BIGGEST thing you’ll notice
about Savanna is that whether it’s performing intense drama, doing hard
core sex scenes, or having a one on one conversation, she is giving
you her all, her complete attention, at 110%. She is the porn world’s
over-achiever and it shows. Last year she won AVN’s Best Actress of
the Year award and she is nominated for the same honor again this year.
She has co-authored a book, writes an on-line column, started her own
production company, is working on a talk show deal and oh, she happens
to be a Vivid contract girl making movies and appearances. I had the
good fortune to talk to Savanna in the beginning of December.
X: When I talked to you last night you said you were in New York City
at a party. Who’s party was that?
S: It was for Victoria Gotti. The cameras were all over the place for
the show. (HBO’s Growing up Gotti) It was her surprise birthday party.
X: So will you be on the program?
S: Yeah, for sure. Gina Lynn and I got the boys (Gotti’s sons) all worked
up at the end. They couldn’t really figure out who the heck we were
and then at the end when they figured it all out. They were so cute,
because they are so young. They all came around asking questions “ How
do I get into this?” I said your parents will kill you.
X: I wanted to tell you I saw your movie “Bare Stage” and it was amazing.
S: Did you like it?
X: It is my favorite movie of the year. It was a very original concept
for (Director) David Stanley to come. You were amazing in it. I know
you take your acting very seriously.
S: I put a lot into my script. I really take it seriously. I do research
background on my character. Some people think that is silly for porn.
People do fast forward I know. But not when I’m acting hopefully. (laughs)
X: Well obviously all your work has paid off for you since you won the
AVN award last year for best actress. How did that feel?
S: I was so happy, but so surprised. I thought I would have to pay my
dues maybe? I didn’t expect to win at all. When they called my name
I was like, what? It was a good movie though, “Looking In.” It has a
good plot. My acting was pretty good.
X: Well now you are up awards for Bare Stage. What did you like about
that movie?
S: I love how the sex is shot in black and white, in that scene with
Dale Dabone and I. How cool looking.
X: He’s a hot guy. And the scene with you and Lezlie (Zen) was pretty
good too.
S: You know what? They didn’t even catch the half of it. That sex was
so amazing and we just kept going. We went crazy. When they weren’t
filming, they missed so much good stuff because I had my orgasm off
camera. So it could have been even better in the movie.
X: So you guys were having sex even when the camera was shut off.
S: Right. Up on the stage. I always shoot my scenes like that. It’s
not my problem if you are going to do hard-core version, soft-core version.
I don’t want to stop because it ruins the whole mood. I want it to be
real and let the camera catch up to us. X: Tell the readers what you
play.
S: I play a young country girl from the South. I had my accent. My boyfriend
goes away to war and he doesn’t come back. So I go follow my dreams
to be a movie star in Hollywood, but as soon as I get off the bus in
Hollywood the whole play progresses on how Hollywood changes me.
X: You and Lezlie are amazing in Bare Stage. I don’t mean just the sex.
I mean the acting. You guys were totally believable.
S: The whole Southern girl accent and everything?
X: Oh yeah. How did you do that? Do you have a Southern accent some
where in there?
S: No I don’t have a southern accent and I didn’t quite know how to
do it. I discussed it with my acting coach and we went to a lot of Tennessee
Williams. I really prepared for it.
X: You know who else was great in that movie was Voodoo. Learning all
that tough dialog and then talking in that funny accent, he really pulled
it off.
S: He was fabulous.
X: He didn’t get a nomination though. I would have put him in the best
actor category. So how do you feel about all your nominations?
S: It’s very exciting. And in three girl girl categories! One with Jenna
Jameson in the Massuese. One with Lezlie Zen in Bare Stage and one with
Tera Patrick in Tera, Tera, Tera.
X: I guess that means you’re hot!
S: I guess so. (laughs) I was really pleased to get nominated as best
actress. I won that last year. So to get nominated again made me very
happy.
X: I know, you got nominated for best actress over all, and then best
actress for Bare Stage.
S: Right. I’m not holding my breath for that one because I think the
Masseuse; pretty much everyone is counting on the Masseuse at winning
all the awards this year.
X: You were great in the Massuese. How was it to work with Jenna?
S: The first time I was with Jenna is in a not yet released edition
of “Where the Boys Aren’t.” All the other Vivid girls played flight
attendants except Jenna who played the movie star and I am part of her
entourage. It’s all on an airplane. So the first scene I ever did with
her is in an airplane bathroom.
X: Oh God, that must have been tough!
S: They cut a little of the back wall out so the camera could get in.
There was no room at all. We are all done up beautifully and we were
very tender, and all of a sudden I think, f--- this and I grab onto
the handle that helps you hang on with turbulence, put my foot on the
sink, pulled myself up and it got so hot and it is really a great scene!
Then we did the Masseuse. We have good chemistry. Jenna is a great lover.
X: So you think Jenna is going to win for best actress?
S: Well I don’t think she should, (laughs) I think I should! Well maybe,
she did an amazing job in Masseuse.
X: My prediction is that Jenna will win some awards, and so will you.
S: It would be a real surprise. Especially since I will be back stage
since I am hosting. I just want to win one award so I can run out in
between my change of clothes and just grab a towel and go out and get
it naked. I don’t think anyone has accepted an award naked.
X: Run out in the towel and then when you get the award, hold the award
up in the air and let the towel drop.
S: Yeah, let the towel go as I am running back stage. I am definitely
daydreaming about it. Can you call me back in ten minutes? I gotta catch
a train.
X: Sure! I’ll call you back in a few. TEN MINUTES LATER
X: Hi. It’s Cindi again.
S: Hi Honey. Uhmm. There are a lot of people on this train. Kids and
parents.
X: What are you trying to say? (laughs) That this wouldn’t be a good
time to talk about blow jobs?
S: Right. I won’t be able to talk freely. Can I call you back in an
hour when I am off the train completely?
X: Yep. I’ll talk to you in an hour.
ONE HOUR (OR SO) LATER
S: I’m a little late, sorry.
X: That’s okay, so you made it home alive?
S: I wasn’t going home. I’m actually in the city. My husband and I split
up but we had dinner tonight.
X: I heard you on Howard Stern talking about you and your husband splitting
up. I am sorry to hear that. Are you okay?
S: Uhm, yeah. I’ve been kinda done (with the marriage). It’s an emotional
roller coaster as you can imagine. He’s living with another girl for
Chrissakes. It’s a big mess, ya know?
X: Sorry. Are you dating?
S: Yes. I’ve been laid more, and laid better. It’s good to be horny
again. People love that feeling of something new and fresh and with
one person it doesn’t stay like that forever. This line of work is perfect
because you always have that newness when you work with new guys and
there is all this brand new fresh chemistry. And you don’t have to bother
wining and dining and you don’t have to wait three dates before you
can f--- ‘em, ya know? You just get right too it. None of that bulls---.
X: I’m glad that you are having great sex. What is the wildest sex you’ve
ever had?
S: I did five guys at once.
X: In what movie?
S: (pause) In Savanna Superstar.
X: (laughs) I was waiting for you to say in real life!
S: No I’ve never done that in real life and it’s something that I said
I would never want to do in a movie. But then I think, well what haven’t
I done? So I did the one thing I said I wasn’t going to do. The reason
I did that movie was that in the book (How to Have a XXX Sex Life) is
listed under my stats a movie called Savanna Superstar, I threw a fit
because that was the Savannah with an “H” that used to be a Vivid girl
that committed suicide. That was her movie. So one of her movies was
listed under my movies. So I did a Savanna Superstar without the “H”.
It’s a really hot movie.
X: What is the hottest sex scene you have ever done?
S: Probably one with Manual Ferraro. The guy made me squirt okay, and
I do not squirt. It ‘s in the movie “ Woman Under Glass.” The problem
with that scene, it was so hot and intense and everything, it’s an amazing
scene, and my biggest regret is that I didn’t stick that huge thing
in my ass. Because when I am watching a movie I never want to cum until
it is an anal scene. And then when I am watching that hot scene and
then it ended and it never goes to anal. I was so horny and I didn’t
realize I needed to take control of scene. I just thought if they wanted
an anal they would say. But now because of that scene I’ve learned I’ve
got to take control of my own scene.
X: Plus they may not have felt like they could TELL you to do something.
S: True. I like to be directed. I remember Stephen Hirsch said to me
that we want your scenes as hot as the scene with you and Rocco, and
I said well get me Rocco then.
X: Well you are Vivid’s Bad Girl! What do you think was your best acting
ever in a movie?
S: Oh, “Devil & Miss Jones”. It’s Jenna playing the devil and me playing
Miss Jones. It’s not released yet. The director, Paul Thomas says open
the door, slam it and scream. So I am standing outside trying to find
a way to scream. Finally after the third time of him yelling action,
I just opened the door and let out this scream and then I was so embarrassed
I started crying. I kept that emotion up through the movie. That was
my best acting.
X: So that’s the movie that will be nominated for next year!
S: I hope so.
X: What new stuff are you up to?
S: I am shooting my own production. I will be the little Love Fairy.
I’ll be blowing dust on people and making them fall in love and things
like that. It’s going to be shot on a green screen. It’s never been
done before. It’s going to be amazing. I’m writing the scripts too.
I’m so excited to start production on it. I’m also in negotiation for
my own talk show.
X: You would be good at a talk show.
S: It’s amazing. If I am sitting next to someone on a plane and they
ask me what I do. I say I am an actress and they say really, what have
I seen you in, and I say well, the naughty kind. It’s amazing how people
open up to me, women, men, as soon as they know what I do. I guess I
don’t look typically like how someone would expect a porn star to look,
especially how we are in everyday life. They’ll talk about whatever
bothers them. It’s amazing how I have that ability to make people do
just that. They feel at home. They’ll tell me they rented a movie last
night at the hotel, or complain about their husband or their wife. It’s
a release for people to be next to someone who is so free sexually.
X: It’s because you are so friendly and down to earth and non-judgmental.
S: Non-judgmental that is a huge part. Thank you!
X: You are like the Oprah of porn stars! You have that girl next-door,
easy to talk to quality. What channel will it be on? Playboy TV?
S: No. It’s going to be completely mainstream. It’s too early to even
talk too much about it. Oh I have a new website called the UniversityOfSavanna.com.
It’s like a whole university website where you pay tuition instead of
membership and check out my coeds. And my sorority is called “ I Eat
A Pi.” It’s something really completely different and new. But the problem
is that there is a Savannah with an “H” University. I’m kinda hoping
that there will be controversy, because that would be positive for me!
X: That is because you’re such a positive person and you bring positive
things to you. I can’t wait to talk to you again!
Fans can see more of Savanna at UniversityOfSavanna.com, SavannaSamson.com
and Vivid.com
Savanna Samson — her real name is Natalie Oliveros — is a porn star,
and a noted one at that. As a Vivid girl, one of the actors whose work
is produced and marketed by the goliath Vivid Video, Savanna Samson
is a porn celebrity.
She is the star of 25 sexually explicit films, a two-time winner of
the Adult Video News Award for best actress, and her work with Jenna
Jameson in "The New Devil in Miss Jones," a remake of a classic, won
last year's award for the best all-girl sex scene.
"My parents are devastated by my career choices," she said. "What really
troubles me about what I do is the pain I've caused them."