An Interview With Adult Performer Kami Andrews

Kami Andrews

Kami Andrews is well known to readers of Adult DVD Talk as a columnist and contributor (I think columnist is the most subtle job description you could give an adult performer and not be lying). Unlike most performers Kami writes columns as well as riding them.

Kami runs a totally free website at KamiLand and is known for being a ‘do-it-all’ kind of gal with a dedicated following.

She bitch-slapped me when I put out an APB on a message board, trying to gather a few interviewees for the blog that I don’t know personally. After (correctly) pointing out that I’d gone about things the wrong way, she was kind enough to talk to me about her experiences in the industry.

She’s funny - her advice for Father’s day was “Call your dad or knock up a hooker.” If that’s an old joke it’s new to me.

Sam Sugar: So Kami, what don’t we know about you from seeing your movies or reading your website?

KA: Well I pretty much lay everything out in my diary . There isn’t much to me that isn’t there. What many people don’t know is that I will not fuck them just because they saw me work in whatever.

SS: What did you do before entering the industry? Why did you change paths?

KA: I worked in the mall and I changed paths because I worked at the mall.

SS: How did you choose your porn name?

KA: The Andrews is from Julie Andrews in ‘ Victor Victoria ‘ - and yes, I was born a woman. Kami is a Japanese Goddess. I like the Shinto interpretation of Kami .

SS: What was your first experience in the industry like?

KA: It was amazing I was very wide eyed and eager.

SS: Who were you working for and what did you do? Any surprises?

KA: My first scene was for Slain Wayne in "New Chicks on the Cock". It was with Hamilton Steele and edited by Mason. No surprises. I was happy.

SS: What do you wish you knew when you started that you know now?

KA: I would have liked to know who the scumbags were up front. People told me, but you know what you want to right?

SS: Who are the scumbags? Who would you tell people to run from? Why are they scumbags? What do, or don’t, they do?

KA: Dude I gotta skip those.

SS: At least tell me what the bad guys do. You don’t have to name names but what should people look out for?

KA: I think the biggest problem I see for new girls is the wrong agent and the wrong suitcase pimp.

SS: Is there a ‘right’ suitcase pimp?

KA: Sure pick a small one you can escape from easily. Avoid ones that want to take you "…to where Charles Manson killed all those people" on a first date. Avoid ones that say "Try this babe you’ll be skinny in a week"

SS: What’s been your worst working experience?

KA: When I know the dude doesn’t like me

SS: What’s the best thing about working in porn?

KA: You have the best sex of your life, at the end of the day they give you money and then you take three days off. It’s a great fucking life.

SS: You’re known for being hardcore. How do you set your limits? Have they changed while you’ve been in the industry?

KA: My limits change daily. I do what I want, when I want, and never make excuses when I change my mind.

SS: What’s would you tell a girl on her way to her first hardcore shoot?

KA: Relax. Don’t do anything you don’t want to. The magic word is cut.

SS: Who would you say is the most powerful/influential person in porn?

KA: Fuck if I could figure that out… The thing is we get caught up in trying to impress each other and we forget the bottom line is - how many units did you move? So much of what porn people are doing is for the benefit of this small group, not the actual end user.

SS: Who do you most admire?

KA: That’s a tough one. Probably Francesca Le . She directs her own shit on her own terms. She is happy, able to hold a relationship together and she makes her own choices. If she wants to perform she does. If she wants to dance she does. No one tells her what to do and it’s reflected in her product.

SS: How important do you think your website is to you success and why?

KA: I don’t think it is at all. My website is a shitty little vanity page that makes me happy and gives me something to do when I don’t want to clean the house and am out of beer. I don’t sell anything and I don’t make money off it.

If anything it’s cost me a few jobs when I tell off the wrong people!

SS: How big a part of porn are drugs?

KA: Porn is what you make of it. If you decide you wanna get high all the time it’s easy because you only work three days a week for a few hours and you have a big pile of money.

At the end of the day you can have whatever experience in porn you decide to. Seeing some people (jump on the) downward spiral and hit bottom can be an eye opener and keep you sober - forever.

SS: Which piece of work are you proudest of and why?

KA: Right now I would say "Who Let the Whores Out" which is the first movie I directed.

SS: If you controlled the whole industry for a day, what would you do to change it?

KA: I would grab everyone’s money and run

SS: What’s the most common mistake people in the industry make?

KA: Dating .

SS: Do you have a plan to leave the business?

KA: My plan is to wash a bowl so I can have some cereal. After that I’m going to take a nap, then call my boyfriend. That’s as far into the future as I have looked.

SS: Is there anything coming up soon which you’re excited about (no pun intended)?

KA: I’m excited about my first directorial movie, "Who Let The Whores Out" from Elegant Angel .

No idea on the release date but it stars me, Katrina Kraven, Tyla Wynn,Sandra Romain, and Penny Flame. It has 4 anal scenes and 1 vag. Hot stuff. It’s vignette style.

SS: Thanks Kami.