LOS ANGELES—When Seth Gamble arrived in Porn Valley he had already been working for two years for Bang Bros and shot 500 scenes, but he quickly learned he needed to start from scratch again.
“My whole goal coming to L.A. was that I wanted to be in features, I wanted to be in large movies, acting was always something I was interested in and when I came to LA I took acting classes, I honed my craft, because I liked doing both and it added another layer,” Seth said. “It was disheartening to come here and realize that I had to start all over. I felt like, having shot 500 scenes in Florida, that I’d earned my stripes.”
Gamble talks of his experiences in his early days and much more on a recent episode of Bryan Burga’s High Spot Podcast Adventures With a Trendsetter. Seth talks about that transition and how he made that move, hoping to get work in features, but it wasn’t easy.
But that early experience did eventually pay off. In Florida where the crop tends to be fresher meat, he learned quickly how to control a scene, so when Porn Valley directors first worked with him they realized that even though he wasn’t familiar to them, the man knew what he was doing.
Asked by Burga who his acting influences were when he was growing up, Seth points to legends like Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando. And he knew that acting was something that would make him—male talent—stick out in an industry where men are known rarely and barely with few exceptions.
“As a male performer, my job is to make the girl look good, if I get some stardom out of it, great,” he said. “But my job is to do a scene and to present the girl as something as amazing as I can, I’m not the star of the show. And that’s OK with me. But when you do some acting, they see a little more of you than just being the dick.”
The fascinating interview runs nearly an hour and 20 minutes and covers Seth and the adult industry in a way that rarely gets this kind of coverage. Seth shows himself, at 30, capable of taking a serious look at himself and an endlessly interesting subject.
“I’ve always surrounded myself with people smarter than me,” he said. “I’ve always had the mindset that I wanted to learn from the next person. I cling onto people who have more knowledge than me. To me it’s just learning things I don’t know. I try never to be one of those guys who thinks I know too much. At the end of the day, I don’t know a lot of shit. It’s better to take away the pride and ask for more information. That way I’m not the jackass trying to talk about things I don’t know.”
Check out Seth’s High Spot Podcast Adventures With a Trendsetter here.
Follow Seth on Twitter @sethgamblexxx and on Instagram at sethgambleps.
