The last time Tom Byron acted in front of a camera was in 1999. The last time he fucked on a set was in 2002. Now he’s doing both again big time, as well as holding down the production fort at his own company, Evolution Erotica.
Byron returned to sex performance late last year by banging all seven girls in the first volume of House of Ass, released last month. And last week he went back to feature acting in a key role in Magazine, a movie directed by Paul Thomas for Vivid.
AVN named Byron Best Supporting Actor, Video, of 1999 for his work in Rob Black’s LA 399. “That was the last acting I did,” the Hall of Famer told AVN.com. “It’s a long, long time since I’ve been on a set, but it’s funny how things just don’t change. I thought it’d be kind of weird and I’d be out of place. But I just fell right into it.”
Byron said that when he started his first dialogue scene, “I was a little rusty. Maybe it was because it was with Penny Flame. She was distracting me. She’s cute, looks like Natalie Wood. Good little actress. But then the second or third time, I just fell right into it.
“It’s kind of nice to come back and just do it for the sheer joy of it, not because you have to pay the rent. This is for the pure pleasure of it.” He also liked the feeling of not being in charge— “to be on a set and not be the one everyone goes to with their problems. That hasn’t happened for a long time. It’s nice to give somebody else the reins.”
Byron worked frequently with director Thomas during his two decade-long career, notably in Vivid’s The Brat series opposite Jamie Summers. “We have a good synergy,” he said.
Thomas agrees. He told AVN.com, “[Tom] was always a pretty good actor, but he’s better than ever now. He has gravitas. Whenever I get a chance to use these jaded veterans with their life experience and the various dysfunctions they’ve worked through, I’ll do it. The older people are more interesting.”
In addition to sex in his own movies Byron has recently fucked for hire with directors Seymore Butts and Joey Silvera, and this month he has three days booked with Zero Tolerance.
He also worked for Club Jenna in a fetish scene with McKenzie Lee for the sequel to Jenna Loves Pain, directed by Ernest Green. “We did a role reversal kind of thing,” he said. “She did my butt.”
A substantial weight loss and quitting smoking opened the door to his new performance life. “It took a little while, you know, to kinda get my sea legs back, but right now I’m so in the zone, it’s like I never left. I got a lot more energy because I’m in shape. I basically quit because physically I just wasn’t there anymore. And mentally. But now it’s a whole new ballgame. I’m tearin’ it up, man.”
He’s not neglecting things at home either. He’s editing House of Ass 2, just wrapped shooting on Lord of Asses 7, and is about to begin House of Ass 3 featuring Aurora Snow. He also finished his first p.o.v. title, Tom Byron’s POV Cocksuckers, scheduled for release March 14. And he will act in Fred Lincoln’s new feature for Evolution, a mob-themed story now in pre-production.
“So I’m very busy, very happy. I’m a fuckin’ maniac. Acting, fucking, editing, shooting, I do it all.”
