In-X-Cess Productions has the first commercial sex scene of Reina Leone and Joe Friday, San Francisco’s so-called “porno cops.” It appears in Vol. 19 of their long-running series, Asian Dolls Uncut, directed by Don Fernando, who “discovered” the couple in Las Vegas.
Leone, an institutional officer with the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, and Friday, a San Francisco Police Department officer, were “outed” as porn performers on May 25 by KTVU, the Bay Area Fox affiliate, after a co-worker saw them in an Internet scene.
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Fernando, an AVN and XRCO Hall of Famer, told AVN.com he shot them in Northern California in early 2003, shortly after meeting them at the Adult Entertainment Expo.
“They are my discovery,” Fernando said. “I met them in Las Vegas but I went to Northern California to shoot them. I tried to talk them out of it but they insisted.
“They’re nice people. I shot them twice— in their very first scene, and in a second scene in LA.”
As Fernando tells it, he met them while waiting in line for his credentials at the Adult Expo.
“I was in the wrong line,” he said, “but that was fate. I was right behind this couple. I saw this strikingly attractive big-busted Asian gal. I noticed she kept looking at me. I thought, I hope this guy’s not upset that I’m looking at his gorgeous partner.”
The actor-director, whose passion for women of Asian extraction is legend within the adult industry, said he kept thinking, “This girl is really a babe.” He pegged her as “Filipina, but ‘mestiza,’ which means with a lot of Spanish blood.”
He introduced himself and Leone told him she was familiar with his work. She said she was a big fan of Belladonna and begged him for an introduction. Then she told him, “We want to do a porn.
That didn’t surprise him. “A lot of people say they want to work,” he said. But he was completely taken aback when he asked Friday, “What do you do?” and got the answer, “I’m a cop.”
“I started laughing,” he said. “’Thank God I didn’t say come up to my room and I’ll shoot you.’”
But he couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “It didn’t add up that he was a cop. I mean, he had tats all over. I said, ‘I’m surprised—you’re tattooed all over.’ He said, ‘We can have tattoos as long as they’re not racist, derogatory or gang-related.’ He said he was on the Tenderloin beat—probably an undercover cop.”
Fernando wanted to shoot Leone, preferably with himself, but he didn’t want to put that to her in front of her husband. And he rarely shoots girl-girl scenes.
“I need a boy-girl scene,” he told them. “And the guy volunteered. I said to him, ‘Well, maybe not, since you’re a cop,’ and she said, ‘Well, I’m a cop too.’
Fernando was floored. “’You guys are both cops! Why do you want to do it? Somebody’s going to see it—maybe not somebody in your department, but somebody. You better think about it. Don’t get me wrong, I want to be the first to shoot you. But you’re going to lose your jobs.’
“I think they were put off by the fact that I tried to talk them out of it. ‘Why would you want to do porn?’ They said, ‘It’s fun.’ She said, ‘I want to be famous like Belladonna.’
“She told me, ‘I have a name already picked out: Reina Leone.’ I gave him that name, Joe Friday [the LAPD detective in the TV show Dragnet]. He liked it. I was surprised—most 26 year-old men don’t know that name, but he does because he’s a cop.”
Fernando, leery of asking to see their I.D.s, said he was not completely convinced they were police officers until he traveled to their home in Sonoma County to shoot the scene and saw graduation photos from the police academy.
“They showed me a home video they made with their girlfriend,” he said. “I thought, This guy is lucky—he’s a cop with a gorgeous wife who is bisexual and brings other girls home.”
Fernando said that Friday performed well enough in the first scene—“I think I had to give him half a Viagra”—but not so well in the second scene he shot with them later on in L. A.
“I remember thinking, I hope this guy releases her and lets her work with other guys. And sure enough he did.”
Both Leone and Friday, Fernando said, were emphatic about not wanting to divulge or promote their law enforcement status. “They were very secretive about it. They said, ‘We’d rather keep our jobs.’ I thought, these people are cops, but they’re dumb cops.
“Maybe because of my reaction,” he said, “they didn’t tell anybody else.”
As he predicted, the truth did come out. The couple still have their jobs—Leone works out of San Francisco General Hospital and Friday was put behind a desk at the SFPD—pending investigation of their extracurricular activities.
Fernando and In-X-Cess kept their promise not to give away their secret until the world found out. “At this point I don’t feel guilty,” Fernando said.
Contact In-X-Cess Productions at (877) 678-2960 or visit their website, www.inxcess.com.
