HustlerWorld Interview: Ron Royster
VCA and Eroticist Films' "Atomic Vixens: Escape From the Valley of the Sluts" is hitting shelves tomorrow. We got our little paws on an advanced copy and all we can say is, "Wowie wow wow wow." We may be biased—VCA is owned by LFP—but everything about this movie spells "hit". Its got a completely unique sense of visual style. It boasts a totally original soundtrack from bands on MySpace (Editors Note: This is a first for an adult production. More on this later). And, most importantly, it features some of our favorite girls (Vivid Girl Lacie Heart, Justine Joli and Tyler Houston) doing what they do best.
We caught up with the perpertually busy fan of metaphors, Ron Royster. During our time together, we spoke of his penchant for quest directors, using MySpace to create a soundtrack and his distaste for traffic in Los Angeles.
You mentioned before that you use a guest director for all of your features, who was it this time?
When I went to the production offices at Hustler, I had a bunch of pictures that had the "look" I wanted. It turned out that most of them were shot by Octavio [Arizala]. I called him up and was like, "You're working on this film and you're the guest director." He was like, "Awesome! Who are you?"
You mentioned that this is the first feature to license music from bands on MySpace.
Yeah, I just went through for the site for 10 hours picking our music I liked that would work for the movie.
Any problems getting bands on board?
Some bands were excited and were like "You work for HUSTLER!" and others weren't and they were like, "You work for HUSTLER."
How do you like the movie-making process?
We're doing the best we can. We're making art. It's infinitely harder to make art than porn.
Are you happy that Atomic Vixens is finally coming out?
Yeah man, it's kind of like giving birth.
Are you proud of your child?
Of course I'm proud. It was the time in my adult career that I've ever had an all-star team of people around me. It's hard for me to take a lot of credit on the movie because so many people did so much hard work on it.
Like who?
Octavio. He definitely had his hand in it. Now he's launched his career, so that's cool. I got his directing cherry. Just everybody, man. The makeup artist was phenomenal, the lady who did the clothing was phenomenal, the editing was great. The story board was really good. I even got my sister to do the English accent for the voice-over.
Awesome.
It's kind of like making soup. The potatoes can't take all the credit for the great vegetable soup.
I hear that you're leaving us soon.
I'm looking forward to getting out of here.
What don't you like about LA?
Life is so precious and every minute you're stuck in a traffic jam or at a stop light, you're watching the sands of life drain from the meter. It's like some kind of video game or something. I don't want to be found in my car, slumped over the wheel on the 101 or something.
So you're off to Prague.
Everything's just bit a little bit up in the air. Did you ever see the "I Love Lucy" episode where the chocolates are coming off of the conveyor belt? It's like, "she's doing a great job, lets speed up the process" Finally the chocolates are coming off the conveyor belt faster than she can do anything with them.
It sounds like you're a busy man. Better than sitting around not doing anything, no?
If you ever saw what my life was like back in North Carolina, you'd understand. I live on 158 acres. I spent a long time getting accustomed to hanging out on my porch and then I was ripped away from my home and then I'm out in the world actually having to make a living.
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