only vacation in Mexico. Vivian Valentine sported a shiner the likes of which would have made Mike Tyson proud to bestow. As it turns out, Valentine received her mouse at the hands of Jon Dough during a scene in Rough Sex 2.
Valentine, however, makes it very clear that she knew exactly what she was getting into and was well-informed along the way both by Anabolic and director Khan Tusion. "I have no regrets or bad feelings about it," Valentine says. According to her, she got her blackeye when Dough, who possesses basketball player hands, slapped her once, "too high and too hard." Asked why she didn't quit then and there, Valentine said she had something to prove to herself. "I like to push my limits," she said. Valentine said she was also making up for the fact that, earlier in her career, she pulled the plug in the middle of a scene that she was doing for Redboard Video, for their "Torment" series. "It wasn't explained to me what was going to happen," she said. "I was whipped and spit on. I never experienced that before. I din't know how to handle that and just quit."
Duck Dumont of Redboard Video offers comment: "I remember that scene also. Generally, I make a point of either speaking jointly to talent or by themselves, alone, before we start shooting. I do this especially if they've never been before the camera in this kind of activity, that, if you're not familiar with S&M or B&D, you may find yourself in a position where you're not even clear on what's being drudged up from the past, or your memory, but you become very vulnerable and you become very shaky. You start thinking you're the worst piece of shit in the world and deserve to get beaten. It seems from my years of doing that, that it's brought up in new people. I always say this is only a movie. I don't want anyone hurt. If you have a problem, I'm going to keep shooting. If you say my arm is hurt, I'm going to keep shooting. If you say I'm dying, I'm going to keep shooting. If you have a problem you say, ‘cut,' and we cut. Okay, being the bondage director that I am, when they say cut, I don't cut; but the person who's the ‘top' knows to slow their way down and comfort them. If they say cut again, we immediately cut.
"If people are not familar with this, it puts you in a funny head space. There's no way of knowing and understanding that space until you experience it. So, no matter how much I try to relay that you may feel odd, one feels that this is only a movie and that they can deal with whatever comes up. But it also comes from my experience and has been proved to me repeatedly that the intensity of a Jamie Gillis or a Kym Wilde often gets people into places they've never been in their psyche. And because we're all generally nice people, we try to accommodate.
"There's no way I can control, especially if I tell people repeatedly, that if you have a problem I'm going to keep shooting unless you tell me ‘cut.' If you have a problem say that, but it's going to put you in a strange place."
Dumont hastens to point out that people in Kym Wilde's movies are never really tied down or gagged. "People can always express if they have a problem," he says. "They are sometimes tied down, but generally not gagged. Or if they're gagged they can make a motion. To me this is a business I enjoy, but we're not selling shoes, here. We're dealing with peoples' way deep down subconscious."
Dumont: "Back to the Vivian Valentine-thing, I remember explaining it to her because she did seem so cute and tiny. I threw her in a scene with Jamie Gillis and Jewel Valmont. We kept going. It was never told to me that this was her first time. She came in like a consummate professional which often is the case especially with new talent. But I did express to her that if you want to cut, we'll cut. I
"I set up a situation that I throw people into. If I start directing as though it was scripted, they'd all be my fantasies and I'd have a great time. But, unless you like my fantasies, you're not going to like the video. So, I try to put situations together and capture it. In a Redboard Video you'll notice that there are very long takes, generally. Whatever you see on the screen is real. Vivian's is quite a powerful scene. They do drag her around, tie her up, spit on her. At a certain point, twenty minutes into the scene, she pulls tape off her mouth and says stop it, I can't take it. I immediately stopped because I could see that she was sincere. On the video it says Vivian couldn't take anymore. Off camera, she sobbed somewhat uncontrollably. I cleared the room. She was laying on the floor and I just held her for 15 or 20 minutes. Then she took a shower. I spoke to her afterwards. She wasn't shaken, but she was emotional about it. It was one of the stronger reactions where actually I put down the camera, I just held her. She was in control of the situation. She could have said twenty minutes, earlier, stop.
"Especially when you're dealing with someone of Jamie or Kym Wilde's character, even Jewel Valmont's - they're so good at what they're doing - I find, wow, they do it so well. Vivian is a good actress. I didn't understand the depth of where she was. I know Jamie's one wacky guy, but he doesn't want to hurt anybody. And I know Jewel would be horrified if she hurt anybody.
