About Julie Meadows
- Height: 5 ft. 6 in.
- Weight: 115
- Measurements: 34C - 26" - 34"
- Eyes: Brown Eyes
- From: Texarkana, Texas
- Born: February 3
- Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Interviews
Interview with Julie Meadows - April 17, 2001
Phone Interview
Pornstarempire.com: Where are you from?
Julie: Texarkana, Texas.
Q: How did you end up in the adult business?
Julie: I met Michael Raven at a nude club in Dallas.
Q: You started dancing first?
Julie: Yeah, I was a dancer first. ...I was a waitress at Red Lobster and a friend of mine had been a dancer.... I needed to make more money because, not only was I married, but also had a son. ...Then I got tired of dancing and I met Michael Raven, but I didn't start [porn] right after I met him. It took me about six months to decide that I could do it. But I came here and ...[the industry] wasn't like how everyone had said it was. You just hear horror stories all the time.
Q: Like what?
Julie: Oh, like everybody is on . ...I got this nightmarish vision. The same with dancing--people talk about topless clubs where you walk in find everywhere, guns, shooting at each other, you know, pimps.... It was nothing like that, either.
Q: Right on. So you were friends with him and still in Texas at this point?
Julie: Michael Raven? ...No, he lived in LA.
Q: Right, but he is from Texas?
Julie: Yeah. But he lived...[in LA] at that time. ...I met him and then about six months later we were in Las Vegas...and I had just changed my mind, right then and there.... I thought, I can do this...I want to have fun. We really wanted to live in California, so I said, "Lets go for it."
Q: How did your husband feel about it?
Julie: The same as me, pretty much, you know, it's all about finding out of what's going on. We had been together eight years before I got into this business. I was feature dancing, so he trusted me. If I go for something, he...says okay.
Q: So jealousy was never an issue?
Julie: No, not at all. We aren't like that.
Q: What would you say is your favorite part of having sex on-screen?
Julie: I would have to say the variety of it, the changeability of it. ...It seems that I only work at jobs where it's something different every time.
Q: Do you mean different people...?
Julie: ...No, the people are the same. I work with the same people all the time. Just different combination of the people, different atmosphere and under different circumstances. ...I enjoy the people in it and I enjoyed the people where I worked at other places before, but the monotony of going to the same place everyday and same customers...[sucks].
Q: So sort of it fulfills some sense of adventure?
Julie: Yeah.
Q: Do you prefer to work with men or women?
Julie: With men. I only work with men, actually.
Q: No women, ever?
Julie: No women, ever.
Q: Why is that?
Julie: ...I don't know how to answer that. I figure it's the same as a man saying that he won't have sex with other men....
Q: So [lesbian sex] is not up your alley?
Julie: I try to explain it a million different ways and I really don't see that it could be explained. I just go with my natural instincts.
Q: [Sex with women] just doesn't appeal to you?
Julie: Yeah. I am not naturally, instinctively attracted to women. I don't even think about the novelty part of it, like, "Wow, it could be cool." I don't think about it. I just go with my impulse and my impulse is no.
Q: So you never even had a three-way, like you had to kiss another girl or anything like that?
Julie: No, but the closest I came was almost kissing Jill Kelly in a movie. It didn't happen.
Q: Why didn't it happen--did you run away?
Julie: I think she respects me. Directors are the worst. They are the ones that push and push. Anyone who says they won't do something--that is a major challenge for them. ...I'm harassed constantly over it. It's just crazy because I figured one place I would never get harassed is pornography.... Jill Kelly was totally cool and she knew. I just tell people to go to hell.
Q: What do you feel that is your biggest asset on-screen?
Julie: That it is obvious that I enjoy being there.
Q: How did you tell your family about what you were doing?
Julie: I called my mom and I said, "Guess what, I'm in adult movies now."
Q: How did that go?
Julie: She said, "Oh, okay, what's going on with that?" and "Are you okay?" and "Are you confident of what your doing?" and blah, blah, blah.
Q: So she was pretty open minded about it?
Julie: Yeah.
Q: Why? What do you attribute that to, was she liberal always?
Julie: No, she knows I'm going to do what I want and if she doesn't accept it then there is a chance we would probably never speak again. ...She is cool, but she is a little too religious for my taste. A long time ago we had a falling out, so everything I do for now on is...okay.
Q: How do you feel about watching yourself on film?
Julie: It's kind of weird. I don't really like it.
Q: How does it make you feel?
Julie: Like I have already been there and I know all about that scene since I was there to see it.
Q: Do you feel embarrassed?
Julie: Not embarrassed just, been there, done that....
Q: So it's just a little uncomfortable like your bored with it?
Julie: Yeah, like it's over and does nothing for me.
Q: Do you remember ever feeling exploited in your career?
Julie: Exploited? You know what, I've felt exploited in interviews--not this kind of interview, but I have done interviews with some people who were just obnoxious.
Q: What are they like? ...You felt manipulated?
Julie: Yeah, like the questions were directed towards me to insinuate things....
Q: Like for you to condemn pornography?
Julie: No, just to make me look really bad, like stupid questions.
Q: Like making you out to be a bitch?
Julie: Not a bitch, just an awful person, like a bad person. That's about the only time I ever felt exploited, when people who interviewed me that weren't very nice and I should of just stopped it at the time, but when I agree to do something, I try to give 100% of myself.
Q: Right. Now is this [stuff was] more for mainstream publications or within the adult world?
Julie: You know, probably it was for mainstream.
Q: Do you feel with your job that you ever get sick of sex or less responsive?
Julie: No, not at all really. I don't know why, but I have always had the ability to live two different lives. ...Even though I am in adult--I make the choices in my scenes to where I don't get that involved in sex--that only novel sex satisfies me. I don't get tired of sex--in fact, now that I have a contract, I don't work near as much. We are only required to do six movies in one year, so I mean there is no way I am sick of sex now. But when I first got in--I got tired--I didn't get tired of sex--I just got tired.
Q: Is there something sexual that you haven't done on camera that you would like to explore?
Julie: ...I have been asked that question before and I don't think so. I think there is probably something, I just haven't thought about it.
Q: What would most surprise your fans or the general public the most?
Julie: ...Maybe [that] I am a real shy person. That would probably shock them. I mean, I am an exhibitionist and I enjoy working and I'm outgoing, but I am really pretty shy. That is what kind of draws me to be an exhibitionist, I think.
Q: What did you want to be when you were a little girl?
Julie: I wanted to be hundred different things. Probably wanted to be a princess--I mean my mom dressed my up like that all the time, which was a annoying. But no, I wanted first to be a computer programmer, a lawyer, a doctor, and a psychiatrist.... That's just it--I never knew what I wanted to be.
Q: Did you ever go to college?
Julie: No, I didn't.
Q: Do you still feature dance?
Julie: Yeah, I actually start this week.
Q: Did you quit dancing for a while?
Julie: Yeah, I quit for a couple years.
Q: Where are you going to be [dancing this week]?
Julie: I am going to be at Spearmint Rhino [in southern California].
Porstarempire.com: Would you tell me who your favorite actors are to work with?
Julie: Yeah, sure. Dillion Day and Evan Stone--they are my favorite guys; they are so cool. I am pretty sure they are both Texas guys, too.
Q: Yeah, Evan is from Texas. ...Why do you like working them so much?
Julie: Because they are nice and easy-going and they don't bring their problems to work. ...They are attentive. ...They aren't just going like a robot. They enjoy themselves, during and they are like, there.
Q: What would you say your favorite shoot has been?
Julie: I would have to say the last one. I did a movie for Rob Spallone and James DiGiorgio called Succubus. That had to be the most fun, just because of all the characters...it was a fun time.
Q: Was that for VCA?
Julie: Yeah. ...Everyone there was just so much fun and cutting up. I was surrounded by Jewish people and Italian people, so it was a riot to me....
Q: Do you think that the age requirement to be in porn should be raised from 18?
Julie: I think people are ridiculous for being rude about young people going through puberty, not having sex. Because as far as I'm concerned, when the human body tells you that it's ready to have sex then, you're ready. ...People say no...you're not ready when your 13, even though you've got your period and you look back centuries ago, that is when girls...started having children....
Q: Yeah, but being in porn is different then losing your virginity.
Julie: Well, that is society. As far as society goes, I have no comment on that, because I don't really feel part of that consciousness. I don't agree on a lot of things that people say.
Q: So you don't think the age 18 is too young?
Julie: I feel that when a person is mentally capable, then they are capable. I think people mature at different ages.
Q: Is there anything you want to say about your future plans, upcoming shoots or plans long-range, like do you want to produce or direct anything about the future?
Julie: I just want to feature dance and do that for a while. I would eventually like to have a studio and people could rent from me and use and start from there. I haven't entertained the idea of directing. I'm just not sure.
Q: ...Can you tell me about what age your son is?
Julie: Nine.
Q: What does he know about your job?
Julie: Nothing, really.
Q: Does he just see you dressing up...like maybe he gets that it's a little glamorous?
Julie: Yeah, something like that.
Q: At what point do you think would be a good time to tell him--I mean how will you know?
Julie: I'm not sure. ...[Like] with any subject. Children mature at different ages for every generation. Just like this generation--it seems like kids learn a lot faster then my generation. So I guess I'll know when I know.
Q: Are you nervous about [telling him]? Do you give it a lot of thought?
Julie: Not really. I have been asked this question before. You know, he knows me...not just as a working woman, but as a mother....and whatever I have to divulge to him, he knows me better than most people, so I mean explaining it to him will be fine--I think in part, because I understand that he may not understand. I won't expect him to understand, that's for sure. I sure didn't understand when my father was a police officer and my mother is trying to explain to me that he can't be home all the time and his job is very dangerous and that is why he is angry a lot. ...I didn't understand until I got older of what a tough job he really had. I think eventually, [my son] will understand that what I do is work, and that even though it's fun, a lot of people have fun jobs, but it's still a job for me.
Q: So you don't feel any pressure to quit when he gets to be a certain age?
Julie: I don't feel any pressure about that at all. You know, it's not like I'm hurting people and it's not like I'm doing really bad things to people. If I were a dealer, I would want to quit, just because...he could be taken away from me for that, but what I do is legal. So I really don't see a problem at all.
Q: And you are married?
Julie: That's right.
Q: Do you have plans for more children?
Julie: No, no more.
Q: ...Being a porn star is a unique job that affords you a different perspective on life or society--what insight has porn given you...that you can pass onto your child? Is there something about participating in this business that actually makes you a better mother?
Julie: ...I guess what I have learned more than anything that everyone has their own truth...and not to stereotype.... Even though this group of people fit into this group as far as their job. Everyone's different in it. "It's all bad" isn't right, because there are good people and bad people, just like in everything.
Q: Okay, and do you get flack from anybody for being a mother/porn actress?
Julie: No. ...I don't ask for that kind of energy from people. I don't flaunt myself in people's faces. People in my neighborhood know I'm a mother and that's all they know.
Q: They don't know that you're a porn star?
Julie: No. I am a family person in this neighborhood and none of us talk that much and even if we did, I mean all they need to know is that I am an actress and a model. So I don't push it in their faces and I don't get that kind of [negative] reaction.
Q: Do you do any mainstream work?
Julie: Every once in awhile, I have an agent that calls me. I did a late night cable show for show time called, the Lady Chatterley Files it's just for HBO..... I've done some mainstream stuff and when we lived in Texas and I was still dancing, I went to acting class and I auditioned and stuff like that and there is really no money in it. A lot of the stuff I did for free and even though it was my passion and I enjoyed it...and it looked really good on my resume--taking all that free work, I couldn't pay the bills with it. I had to be more realistic of my choices of jobs.
Q: Is there anything you want to say about your new VCA contract?
Julie: That I love it. I love the company, the people and everyone there is so good to me and they are really good to each other and they care a lot about each other. They never make me feel pressured into anything I don't want to do. They always ask for my opinion about things and really put me on a pedestal. I really love them for that.
Q: Right, and when did you start working with them?
Julie: February.
Q: I mean weren't you shooting with them before you got a contract?
Julie: Actually VCA is the company I worked for most this whole time and it's right next to Sin City.
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