AAPI Heritage Month on HotMovies continued on Friday, May 27th when host Jada Kai joined the multi-talented Lucky Starr live on the HotMovies Instagram. Lucky discussed how the industry’s changed for Asian performers since she started, her book I Am Lucky, and her love of all kinds of dance. Check out their fun conversation below!
JK: Hello, everyone. We are live on @hotmoviesofficial. My name is Jada Kai, your host today. It’s Memorial Day weekend so thank you for coming and stopping by the show. Today’s special guest is Lucky Starr. Here at HotMovies we’re celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. And let me bring Lucky in right now. For those of you that don’t know, she is a very special guest. She has quite a big library on HotMovies, so you’re going to have to check that out. She just came out with a book, I’m excited to talk to her about that. She is also Filipina, so we can learn about her culture and how she celebrates this month. There she… Hi, Lucky.
LS: Hey, how are you?
I’m good, how are you?
I’m good. I’m good. Yeah, just getting stuff done today, doing laundry. It’s been a crazy, crazy month.
I’m glad you’re not stuck in the washer. [laughter]
No. So what’s going on?
Not much. I’m excited that you’re here today, thank you for spending time with us.
Thanks for having me.
Yes, of course. So Lucky like me is… You’re 100% Filipina?
Mm-hmm.
Yay, how are you celebrating?
My hair is all over the place. How am I celebrating? You know what, this has just been a crazy, crazy month ’cause I’ve been shooting a lot, and I just shot for Trike Patrol again. And oh yeah, I’d like to start with a little joke: so why do Asians have small boobs?
Why?
Because A is the only acceptable grade in Asian cultures.
[laughter] That’s good.
I said that in my scene too for Trike Patrol. It’s interesting now, ’cause they used to go to the Philippines and film and now it’s like—I don’t know if it’s because PornHub had to like clean up shop and get rid of all that random stuff—but now it’s like they use performers, which is nice. I mean, we benefit from it, but last couple days I’ve been running around like a chicken without a head ’cause I flew to Tampa and back. I literally like flew out Tuesday noon and I got back Wednesday at midnight. And so right now I’m like, “I haven’t done laundry, I’m getting caught up this weekend.” If I don’t do anything this Memorial Day weekend that’s just great ’cause I don’t wanna do shit.
Oh, I love doing nothing, that’s my favorite hobby.
I know, I know. My cat keeps staring at me like I haven’t fed him, I feed him like all the time, anyway. [laughter]
So you used to go to the Philippines to shoot?
No, no, I’m saying Trike Patrol did.
Oh yes, yes, yes.
If I tried to shoot in the Philippines, they’d wanna give me like a chicken and flip flops or something and I’m like, “No, it’s not how this works.” But no, I’ve actually never… Have I shot in a foreign country? I have not. I would always like to, but I don’t think Philippines is the place, ’cause why get me when they could get that person for like five bucks [laughter] to say it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. What’s your favorite part about Philippine culture?
The food—no actually—more of the sense of family. You know, even though my family’s small, we’re so close.
But everyone’s your tita.
Yeah, because I grew up in an all-White suburb, Chicago, and there were no other ethnic races. There were no Black people, Latinos, nothing. We were it. So people treated us…
Wait, where’d you grow up?
Suburbs of Chicago.
Oh really?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
You would think that it was like really diverse over there.
No. Well the thing is it is now, but when I was growing up, it wasn’t so much. If anything was different to them, they treated us differently. And I have other friends that have experienced the same thing when they grew up as a different culture in an all-White or all-Black suburb. And it’s just not easy. It’s not easy because first of all, they ask why I have a Hispanic last name and I just roll my eyes. I’m like, “Do you really need a history lesson right now? Really? Wow.” They’re just kinda like, “Well, are you Asian?” Or they think we’re Pacific Islander and there is a difference. I’m all about Pacific Islander culture. For some reason I dig it and I study it and all this other stuff, but Filipinos are in the continent of Asia, so we are Asian.
Oh, we’re not Pacific Islanders? [laughter]
Well, the other Asian countries would like to push us out further into the ocean so we could officially become Pacific Islander, but Pacific Islanders are really fucking cool so that’s okay.
Wait, who does Pacific Islanders pertain to?
That is the French Polynesians, like Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, even Hawaii—all the cool islands. It’s not like Philippines isn’t a cool island, we just, I don’t know if you can experience this, but as a Filipino American, do you find like you—at least your friends or your family—adopt other cultures because…?
No, no, no. I think that’s completely true, because I mean of course we have like our foods that are native to us, but we definitely do lots of other, like we’ll do Chinese New Year’s or Lunar New Year.
Oh, in my dance class I dance in a Polynesian class and like there’s a ton of Filipinos in my class and why we’re so magically drawn to that, I have no idea. I wish someone would dispel the myth to me. Why are we drawn to like Hawaiian culture or Polynesian culture? Why are we drawn to other cultures? Like, you know, I don’t know. It’s just a thing of mine. It’s my hobby. But then I look at my class, I’m like, there’s a shit-ton of Filipinos here. And that’s the thing, I get along with them ’cause like attracts like. Like when I was growing up, like the one other Filipino girl in class, she’d always be my bestie, you know, same with college. And now I’m in California.
What were your biggest struggles growing up as a…
Racism, racism… I hate to say it.
Really?
Yeah. Yeah.
Wow.
Like I look at a guy and I think he was cute and I’d smile and he’d go like this [gestures negatively]. I’m not lying to you, it was really, really rough growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, because it’s different now, but back then it was not easy. And my whole family experienced the same thing and my brother experienced so badly that he doesn’t even admit to people that he’s Filipino. He says he’s Hawaiian.
Wow.
I know. I know. I know.
Oh my gosh.
Hawaiians are pretty cool too.
Yeah, for sure. I’m sorry that you had to go through that. I mean, I kind of went through a little bit of that. I had…
Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Delaware, which was fun.
Oh, okay. There you go.
But in elementary school, I feel like, you know, some of the kids would do the thing and be like being racist and stuff like that.
Yeah. Yeah.
And then I had like two Asian girlfriends and they would call us the Chang sisters, which was a joke. Like we embraced it, but now going back I’m like, that was definitely racist and not okay.
I know, you get in real trouble for that now.
Yeah. Oh, what’s your kitty’s name?
Victor Victoria.
I was gonna ask what does it mean for you to be in porn now as an Asian performer?
You know, it started out when I started out like in 2009, as an Asian female in porn, it’s like, that was… I tried to be an actress out here and at the time there wasn’t any work for Asian-American females. I mean, it’s different now, but when I started out I’m like, there was like nothing. So I’m just like, I might as well start doing porn because there’s always gonna be a job for us.
Yeah.
But even then that was when we were able… I was able to fake an accent. I could do a little race play, that “Me so horny” shit I did all day long. But you can’t do that now. And now it’s like, even one of those things that even if it was an Asian video, they can’t like… What’s the word? They have to sort of veer away from the whole race factor.
Yeah. Like cultural appropriation.
Yeah. Yeah. But I’ve done a lot of those where I fake an accent and you know I even spoke Tagalog in one, which is kind of funny, ’cause I don’t speak Tagalog. So I learned it phonetically, and I played Ember Snow‘s mom and I studied real, real hard to learn the lines and do it like with the accents and everything and not fuck it up. And if anything threw me off, then I would mess up the line. I’m like, “No, I’m a realist, I have to do this in Tagalog.”
Wow.
And I don’t speak Tagalog.
Yeah, Tagalog is also my… Because there’s so many languages in the Philippines but that’s what my family spoke. They didn’t want me to learn Tagalog because they didn’t want me to have an accent. Like they were like, “You’re gonna be American.”
See, and that’s the thing, my mom didn’t teach us Tagalog because she wanted it to be the secret language that she and my dad would have so they could talk about us and have us not understand, but the second they would say our name, I’m like, “Oh, okay, she’s talking about me.” So then I tried to, you know, crack the code, I guess you could say. I never really did, but yeah, that was their own secret code. And they didn’t teach us, you know, and there’s a lot of Filipino-Americans that are like that.
Right, right. Oh my God. So we grew up very similarly where they would talk about us and I’m like, that’s a little bit traumatizing, being talked to about right in front of you. And like, yeah. And I feel like I would just be left out because I was the only child. Were you?
Oh no. Well here’s the deal, I had two siblings but now I have one, my sister passed recently like three years ago.
Oh I’m so sorry.
Yeah. Yeah. So I blogged about it.
I have a brother and I have two half-sisters, but I grew up as a only child. Like they exist, but I grew up as an only child.
Oh, okay. Okay. I have a half-sister too, but you know, my parents divorced when I was young, but my dad remarried a Filipino and my mom remarried, you know, a White man. And yeah my dad was so hardcore Philippine, like really hardcore to the point what he did was, you know, yell at us. I hate to say it.
Wait, you’re cutting out a little bit. Your dad what?
Yeah. Sorry. No, my fucking boyfriend keeps calling me and I just feel like he knows what I’m doing. So if I cut out and I keep… Wait, hang on. Let me just tell him I’m like… I’ll do it on here. Excuse me for a second.
You’re good.
Okay. Hang on a second.
Thank you everyone for coming to hang out with us today. If you have any questions for us at the end of the show there’s a question mark right there on the bottom. You can click that button, type in your question and we’ll get to it at the end, as long as they’re Instagram appropriate we will answer them. [laughter]
Yeah, exactly. So what is Instagram appropriate? So could we talk about things but not actually do things?
Yes.
Okay. So if they say, “Show us your boobies,” we cannot, obviously.
We’re not gonna engage with that.
If you signed on to OnlyFans and then, you know, if you give me a little something-something for my pocket, then maybe I will.
Yes.
Right? Okay.
Yes.
And also buy my new book. My book, I Am Lucky has been out for two years, but now as my new sequel I Am Still Lucky.
Oh, this is your second book?
Mm-hmm. It’s selling really well. And when I was at the Exxxotica convention last… At the end of April, I mean all my books sold at that and apparently they said it’s good. So I just put it out there and I’m like, “I hope you like it.” So yeah.
How long did your first book take and how long did your second take?
Well, the thing is ’cause I have a blog, which a lot of people read, and it really was just sort of like my form of personal therapy, and it literally started the day I started in the industry, so it was everything, so then I would cut out the bullshit, cut and paste all the good parts from my blog, and I put it into a book. And when I say cut out the bullshit, like, I would say all these things about guys that didn’t last very long anyway, so I just tried to keep the storyline all about being in the industry and what it’s like to be in the industry. And then the second one was really more of like still talking about the industry, but more of the adventures, and I do talk more about my relationships I had along the way, but you know, like I said, I put it out there. I hope it’s good, and everyone is liking it, so that’s good. Available on Amazon.com.
Yeah, congratulations.
Thank you, thank you.
That’s so exciting.
Thank you.
In porn what are your favorite roles to play?
Oh gosh. Well, you know what, my favorite and what I do all the time are two totally different things, like my favorite roles are… Like I was a leading lady in a feature, but I wasn’t cast as that role, I was like a last-minute replacement, but that would be my favorite one. Not a lot of people are doing features anymore, kind of few and far between, but what I usually do now is like the stepmom stuff, not even necessarily like an Asian video anymore. I just would do the videos and happen to be Asian, ’cause I think they try to veer away from that sort of race stereotype.
Yeah, I think that’s a really good thing, do you?
Yeah, I mean, I do, but it’s also like, I don’t care. Just get me work. You know what I mean? Maybe you just spelled a myth for me because, okay, all of my content is on my phone, and what I have to do is on my phone, I have to upload it to my phone, and then drop it onto my fan sites. It’s saying that I have no space on my phone. I’m like, “Bullshit, I have like a lot of space.” I don’t know if you experience that, or am I just technically illiterate or what.
I mean, you might have too much porn on your phone.
I don’t think so, I look at it, and first of all, I got the most gigabytes you could possibly get, so don’t tell me there’s no fucking space because in honor of AAPI month, I want to upload my scene with David Lee and then with you after that, and it’s not letting me and it’s frustrating as heck. I don’t know if you know anything about that sort of thing or you have a whole different genre, you like do the really big-quality stuff.
I feel like I do a little bit of everything. I love the amateur side of it, and then I also really like the pro side because it shows… I think it shows who you are in different lights.
You have to do it like across the board, everything across the board.
So you’ve been in the industry for a while. How do you feel like the industry has changed?
18 years. It has changed dramatically, dramatically, ’cause first of all, when you first got in, you had your agent, and that’s it. The agent got you the work, you went did the work, you went home, everyone identified you from your agent, there were more features being shot, there were more big production numbers. Certain sites would spend a huge, huge amount on budget just for a scene, like something really, really simple. And things have changed so much because now that the fan sites are like… Fan sites are king, people veer more towards those, but it’s not like me going to set and having a production company around me, it’s just like me grabbing my phone and I’m like, “Okay, let’s shoot some content,” now. It used to be a lot more fun when I did the fan sites because like even when I used to host the swingers parties, I would whip out my phone, I’d be like, “Hey, you guys, mind?”
And they’d be like, “Yeah,” you know they’d like “No, just don’t get my face in it.” And it was as easy as that, now it is just like, “Okay, give me your IDs, give me your… Sign these model leases,” and it’s all now, but a lot of people are not willing to do that, so I wish… Well, I don’t know, ever since OnlyFans kind of blew up, they had to follow everything by the rules, and a lot of things are very, very much by the rules now.
Do you feel like the industry has changed for the best, or do you feel like you wanna go back in time?
Honestly, I loved the heyday. I wish I could go back in time, but also just working for yourself and shooting your own content has its advantages as well, no one could take your money, you could do whatever the fuck you wanted, you could work with whoever you wanted. So there’s pluses and minuses to each side, but I do miss going to a big feature and going onto the set and I was goofing off most of the time, and many times I’m not just in front of the camera, I also work behind the scenes, I would also be like porn star wrangler. Sometimes you’re trying to find someone and they are in a corner fucking, or you’re trying to find somebody else, and they’re in their car smoking weed, and then I’m like, so yeah, I’ve done all aspects of this industry, backwards, forwards, production, you know, all the stuff.
Where is your favorite place to be in a production set?
Oh, in front of the camera, of course. I hate to say it, I don’t know if I’m just like… I just feel like when I do a good scene acting, then sex or whatever, I feel like I’m doing something good for mankind, I guess. I guess, I feel like I walk out of there feeling so empowered, like I just created something wonderful that people are gonna really, really enjoy, and that’s what I like a lot. Sometimes that is not the case, it depends on the scene because I’ve done so many things across the board, I’ve done an extreme scene, I have done very, very extreme violent scenes and I’ve done really tame vanilla stuff. I’ve done a lot of fetish stuff, and I’m not even really a fetish kind of girl, but I’m just kind of like, “Oh, you’re paying me. Okay, sure, I’ll do whatever.” I hate to say it. You know, it’s like, I’ve become that person.
You said that before you started, your partner was really into seeing you with… Like you were kind of like a hotwife?
Mm-hmm.
Did you feel like after you joined porn, did you carry a lot of stuff from like your porn sets to your normal life?
Well, that’s the thing, probably what you’re talking about is when I got in the industry, I was with fiance number four, ’cause I’ve had five, and number four, I thought first was really, really hot and we used to go to swingers clubs and all this other stuff. And then once my career started taking off, he started resenting me. He started like getting mad at me. He wanted me to quit. I’m like, “I can’t now, I’m in too deep.” And just really resenting it, but then doing shitty, shitty, shitty things to me because I wouldn’t do what he said. I’m like, “You wanted me get into this and now you’re changing your mind and you can’t unfuck what’s been fucked.” After a while, after a million breakups and me moving out on him at least two or three times, you have to realize to yourself that it’s just not meant to be. So then I had to just take off and do everything on my own and a guy that’s not understanding about everything you do is not the right guy for you. Excuse me, if you’re doing a lot of scenes, he can’t be mad at you, he has to understand that work is work.
And there’s a lot of guys that don’t understand like, well, you fucked a guy. This fiance number four kept saying, “You fuck men for money, you fuck men for money.” And I’m like, “Where did this come from?” It was crazy. The last straw was because I wouldn’t… It wasn’t about sex. It was about control. And because everything was out of his control now he hated me for it. And the last straw was one time he just went away for a week in Vegas by himself and I was home. And then I looked up and then he was gone. And then I’m like, that’s the straw that broke the camel’s back. I had to move out, find a place to live. I was really, really struggling financially for a while. And then things just sort of took a turn when… The industry turned because suddenly we could just… We don’t have to rely on other people to make money. We can just rely on ourselves.
Yes, definitely.
Yeah.
How do you get a partner to be supportive? Like what are some things that a partner can do to support you? Just because I feel like this is a very frequent thing when people first get into porn and they do have a partner and they’re like, “Yeah, it’s fine.” I feel like people just like don’t know how to be supportive.
Well, the thing is, you have to just go on with doing what you have to do. And he was just like, “That’s not acceptable.” I’m like, “Well, then this relationship’s not gonna work.” You know, there’s so many times I’ve made so many exceptions for guys and then with fiance number five, I even like graduated from bartending school to try to veer out of the industry and have a completely and totally like non-sex-work-related life. And after a while, I’m like, you know what, “Go fuck yourself.” That still didn’t stop him from frantically trying to talk to other girls behind my back and eventually leaving me for one. And then I realized now it’s just kinda like, what do you do? What you have to do, you have to do. Guys will come and go. You know what I mean? They will. And even if you’re just like, “Oh, but he’s meant for me.” No, trust me, he’s not. So I’m at a point now where I’m just kinda like, “No, no, I don’t need anyone.” I’m good. I’m cool. I’m really good.
Yeah. I feel like… I’m sorry that you had to go through that.
I know. I know, but that’s the thing, it’s like, there used to be a time when I used to have… Like there was me and then there was my other half. And now I’m just kinda like, “No, there is just me.” Even when I’m dating someone, I’m just kinda like me is more important. If you can’t deal with it, bye, see you.
Can I ask what your relationship status is now?
Okay. Some people say boyfriend.
Oh, you said you had a boyfriend, your boyfriend just called.
Here’s the deal, it’s yeah, it’s really more boy toy, but don’t tell him I said that. [laughter] Let’s just say he fits into my life. ‘Cause when I go out of town, “Here’s my cat. Can you watch him? Okay, thanks.” “I’m going to the airport. Can you give me a ride? Okay, cool.” He’s a nice guy. He’s very, very sweet, but he’s very, very young, like very young. So I’m basically a cougar and he’s my prey, but you know what… So I don’t… What’s the word? I don’t put so much stress out. I don’t try to emphasize anything. We just take things one day at a time and I’m not gonna like put any stress on like, I don’t need that happily-ever-after man or wife in front of a castle and live happily ever ever shit anymore because I need myself. I don’t need anybody else. So it’s just like, he’s back there and I’m like, “Okay, watch the cat. Cool. Okay. Thanks.” But classify it however you want to, but right now I call him my boy toy.
Oh, that sounds fun.
Yeah. But he’s completely understanding about everything.
Oh, that’s good. See, that sounds supportive. Like, as long as they’re understanding and they can be there for you at the end of the day, those are what I think are supportive traits.
Mm-hmm.
So you were also a dancer, right? You said you were doing a traditional dance class right now?
Mm-hmm.
But you were also a dancer for a very long time before that. Did you also drift or no?
There’s not a dance form I have not done.
Okay.
So not one, if there’s a dance form that I wanna tackle, I’ll tackle it and I have to master it. So it started with ballet, tap jazz, then hip-hop, flamenco, hula and now Tahitian, strictly Tahitian. And the thing is, okay some people have to do drugs to get a high; my high is dance. I feel so empowered by dancing and I love it. I drive a really far distance for me to go to dance class every single day, but it’s what rounds me out. So with all this shit that’s been happening in my life with my sister and everything, when I go to class, all the problems sort of go away. But I have stripped, in fact, that’s how Lucky was born. In fact I was in Chicago and I lost my day job. I had one day job in Chicago, that was like one of those nine-to-five, Monday-through-Friday, which is what Chicago is all about. And I lost my job. And then all of a sudden my friends sort of talked me into going to this bikini bar.
I mean, you didn’t even take anything off. You had to wear like two sets of nylons and a bikini and then hustle for like really cheap dances. And it was non-alcoholic, so you can understand how little I actually made, but it was my start. And then I learned a couple of things and I worked at another club, but then I worked… Did it kind of on and off since then. Like one time a day in Pasadena, one time a day here in the Valley. But I honestly don’t strip now unless I’m feature dancing where they actually pay you to be there. I really hate the whole hustling aspect of stripping like, “Hi, do you wanna dance? Can I dance for you? I think you want a private dance.” No, I fucking hate that. I hate that. I hate that. I wanna know how much money I’m making when I walk in the door. End of story. And that I can’t… If there’s a little extra, great, but that’s why I like feature dancing, ’cause they pay you to be there.
What is your favorite form of dance?
Ooh that’s a good question. Thing is, I’ve done a lot of musical theater, but probably what I’m trying to master now, which is Tahitian dance is my favorite form of dance, and there’s more to it than meets the eye. Because when people think of Hula and they think of Tahitian, they think of what they see, like a Luau and they sort of… What’s the word? Judge it up for the tourist. But there’s really so much more that goes into that, so much more heart, so much more meaning, so much more of a cultural aspect. Cultural appreciation, yeah. Which is kind of funny ’cause I never studied like tinikling or anything like that. I would like to, maybe that’ll be the next one on the list. I wanna study Bollywood, I wanna study Irish step dancing, I want to learn it all. I want to… Not be a single dance form I have not mastered. But when I was in high school, man, I had the point shoes, I was going to dance with my company more than I was going to school. And that was my passion, but then I stopped growing and you know how that goes. [laughter]
Let’s dive into some of the questions the audience has asked. This kind of relates to what we were just talking about. Where did the question go? [laughter]
Oh, do you want to scour a little bit?
Oh, someone already asked. I already asked you that, but I just wanted to throw that up.
Someone said, “Lucky, what is your favorite dance that you learned?” Probably Tahitian right now, because a lot of people think Tahitian and hula are the same thing. No, it’s not. Okay. Let’s say like hula is more like movements and stuff like that but Tahitian… Wait I’m gonna back this up a little bit… Is all about… I gotta stand on this thing… Like the hips. Like that. It’s so hard to do this on a couch. Someday I’ll show you the full, the whole shebang. But yeah, that’s my passion now.
That’s amazing.
It’s a lot of fun. My friends are a lot of fun.
When did you start like dance? When did you start like taking it seriously?
Oh gosh, in high school. With ballet and stuff like that, it was like one of those things where I was in eighth grade and wandered into this one dance company where they gave you free lessons, but then you became their minions to go do shows so that they can make money. But I was dancing so much. Once I was just sort of catapulted into it, there was like no turning back, but then the ballet world wasn’t loving me. I don’t have a very good explanation. I just don’t. I don’t have a lean dancer’s body, but then I sort of veered into musical theater. So I was doing musical theater professionally when I was 19.
Oh wow.
Yeah, yeah. I started out in the show A Quarter Sign and they needed like a short Asian female dancer. So I did that show five times and I’ve done lots of other musicals since then. So musical theater is my passion. It’s just one of those things that when I moved out to California, like I wanted to do theater, but also do TV and film, but there’s not as much theater as it was in Chicago and now Chicago, that market’s totally changed. But I’ll always have that passion for theater. And I always go to New York on a regular basis and see as many Broadway shows as possible so I can get inspired.
What’s your favorite Broadway show?
Oh gosh. You know what? That’s a loaded question ’cause there’s like a million that are really, really good. There’s some recent ones I saw. Oh, Mulan Rouge is excellent ’cause that’s… I saw it in Chicago, the national tour. And then I already have tickets for the Pantages here. So it’s really good. It’s really good. It’s just like so much energy and inspires you to just be like, oh yeah.
Whenever I go, I mean, not that I’ve been to a ton, but when I used to live on the East Coast, I was kind of near New York and whenever I would see like a Broadway show or whatever, I’d just like end up always singing like… [chuckle]
Which one did you see?
I would just like have a Broadway show like in my fucking car every day.
Which one did you see? I’m just curious.
Okay. So obviously Rent was like very popular when we were growing up and actually Anthony Rapp, he was in that and he sang live for one of my shows before, so that was really cool.
Oh. That’s something, nice.
Yeah.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
So I would have to say hands down…
Rent?
Rent is my favorite.
How are we gonna pay last year’s rent?
That’s funny I did some…
I walk down the street. I hear people say, “Baby, so sweet ever since puberty everybody stares at me, boys, girls, I can’t help it, baby.” Okay. [laughter]
I feel like you have so many talents. Like you dance, you act.
Sing.
You sing.
Yeah. I haven’t really worked in a while, but you know it’s… I’m one of those people that will go ’cause it’s a Filipino thing, I would go to like, I don’t know if you have a round one there but I would go and rent a karaoke room by myself and just belt it out for an hour. Because if you don’t use it, you lose it. But I’ll jam pack as many songs as I can just to keep it in practice. But I haven’t done that in a while, so I should, I need to do that soon.
I don’t know where… I definitely had other questions on here but I don’t know where they went. [laughter]
You can ask me anything, obviously my life is an open door.
I remember someone asking, “What keeps you going every day?”
What keeps me going every day? Well, a lot of caffeine and a couple of diet pills. And let’s see, motivation that I have to get shit done. If you saw my closet, my hallway right now because it’s one of those things when I went to Chicago, I come back I just dump that suitcase. Then I went to Alabama and just dump that suitcase. And I just went to Tampa and dump that suitcase. So there’s Mount Saint Lucky in my hallway and then laundry and just getting caught up during the Memorial Day holiday. And I just wanna chill, like my cat that’s staring right now ’cause he’s like… And do nothing, but just hang out.
I didn’t realize how much you travel. You travel a lot.
I did this month but I swear to God after yesterday or wait, no, two days ago when I got back from Tampa I’m like, “I don’t wanna see a plane for a while.” So the next time I go somewhere, I’m actually… My first international trip in two years I’m going to Paris with my mom and that’s the thing.
Oh wow.
I know. I haven’t traveled with my mom in a long time ’cause my stepfather is basically a walking, talking vegetable, ’cause he had a bad stroke and I’m like, “How the heck are you gonna leave him for a week?” And then she’s just like, “No,” she just said, “Just go.” And I said, “Okay.” And after everything we’ve experienced with our family recently, she kind of needs that and she needs just a vacation ’cause she went through a lot. I took my sister’s passing hard but my niece and my mom really, really took it hard. So I wanna show her a good time. I wanna take her to the real Moulin Rouge. I wanna take her to Disneyland in Paris and I just wanna eat French freshly cooked croissant every day.
Croissant.
Croissant. I can say one thing in French, you ready? You ready? Je veux venir sur ton visage. Do you know what I said?
I have no idea.
Well translated means, “I wanna cum on your face.” That’s the only thing I know how to say in French. [laughter]
Is that your favorite place?
No, no, no, just, okay I have a friend, he’s a gay Filipino guy that knows how to say that phrase in every language. So I learned it in two languages. I learned it in French and American sign language. But I also know [foreign language] And then someone French would be like…
Wait, do you know what they’re saying though?
Yes.
Something about a threesome, right?
They’re just like, “Would you like to come back to my room?” And yeah. So that’s basically what it’s saying, but it almost feels [foreign language]
I remember singing that song when I was very young, like too young to sing that song.
See that’s the thing, you gotta sing Moulin Rouge on Broadway because the first thing you see all these hot chicks in these corsets and it’s all red in the background and they’re just like, “Hey, sister go, sister.” And you’re like, “Yes, yes, yes. Woo!” Cannot wait to experience the real deal. I’m sure the Moulin Rouge in Paris is like different from the Broadway show. But my mom says, “Okay, they show boobs.” I said, “I know they show boobs, but they’re artistic boobs like with the gems on it and feathers and sparkle. So it’s not really boobs. It’s just there…” You know?
Yeah.
Yeah. So.
Another question I remember someone asking is “What helps you prepare for a scene and does that co-align with what you did to prepare for actual mainstream scenes?”
Well, first of all, mainstream, you don’t have to get naked [laughter] but for my porn scenes, see, it depends. First of all, I realize now how much boy-girl scenes actually suck every bit of life out of me. ‘Cause I was wondering, well, why the fuck is my body so sore? And I realized ’cause the boy-girl scene I did the other day, but I need a good night’s sleep. I need a lot of energy, I need also depending on the scene. If it’s an anal scene—which I don’t do anymore unfortunately, I hate to break some hearts—if it’s an anal scene, I gotta make sure that I prep, clean out, clean what’s left in the chamber, take an Imodium and then do an enema once an hour every hour until the call time. Which, I don’t know if you know who Mika Tan is, she’s kind of an Asian porn legend.
Mm-hmm.
Do you know who she is?
I don’t know who she is.
Oh my God. So many people are like, “Oh my God, Mika.” No, she and I used to be best friends, which is kind of funny because before I went to the industry, I was a huge fan of the industry. So I had my favorite starlets and they were all Asian. I had DVDs all over my apartment. Like you thought I was like the biggest perv in the world. But I did date this one guy, there was this kind of like weird to say he and I used to walk. He lived in Orange. We used to walk to the video store, rent a Mika Tan video, three or four of them every single day, come home and watch it.
This is before porn?
Yes.
Woah!
Maybe like even six months before I went into porn. But then all of a sudden I’d just watch everything about me, pretend I felt like I knew her like I felt like she was my bestie. And then we were extras on a Reality Kings set where they tried to get ahold of every single Asian girl they could possibly get their hands on. And they put us all in Catholic schoolgirl outfits and we filmed it in Hollywood actually. So there’s only one girl that was actually having sex. But the rest of us were doing like Girls Gone Wild type of thing. And I saw Mika there and I’m like, I walk, I go, “Are you Mika?” And she said, “Yeah.” I said, “I’m your biggest fan in the whole world.” And then she and I became besties after that. And then…
Oh my God.
I know. I know. I know. And then like during the scene, she goes, “Oh, sit on my face.” And I’m like, “I’m sitting on Mika Tan’s face. Oh my God. Oh my God.” And then we became like really good besties. And she and I used to go out for Filipino food all the time, Korean barbecue, all this other stuff. And then unfortunately we had a falling out around 2013 or something, maybe a little after that. Yeah. But she and I… She was my best friend for a while. And the thing is when she snaps, she snaps, like that’s it. And a lot of people that know her know what she’s like. And she just didn’t wanna be friends with me anymore. But she moved to a different part of the country, but that was my Mika Tan story because she was everything I modeled my porn style after. I don’t know if that makes sense.
No. I definitely had my role models before I came in.
Who was yours?
For me it was Asa Akira and Cindy Starfall, because they were like the two that were very popular at the time. And Jackie had a subscription to Brazzers and I remember they were like on the front page of Brazzers and yeah.
You wanna hear something funny. I played Asa’s mom in a movie once, a feature. I know, right? And I’m not that much older than her, but I’m like, first of all, Japanese/Filipino, I think they were just trying to get anyone they could get. And they knew I was sitting around my apartment doing nothing. So they were just like, let’s get Lucky. She’s not doing anything. She’ll play the mom. I’m like, “Okay. Yeah, I did.” And then I had to do a girl-girl scene with Dana Vespoli. You know who she is, right?
Uh-uh.
Oh, she’s a long time legend. I could fill like this walking history book about porn, but she used to be married to Manuel Ferrara and she is half-Thai, half-White. And she’s been in for many, many, many, many movies, but not just as a performer, but also as a director. And she’s just big-time now, but she had to play my lesbian lover and she made me her bitch. And you know it’s a good porn scene where… Wait, I gotta get a prop to show you. Just I take one of my business cards and I’m just kinda like, “I love you. Call me, call me. I love you. Call me.” And then you’re waiting by the phone. And I’m like, “Did she call, did she call?” And then you’re told, “No, she didn’t call.” Yeah.
She never called?
No. Well, at least I was hoping she’d hire me for just a job sometime in the future. And she didn’t, but yeah, that’s Dana Vespoli. Yeah. She used to be married to Manuel Ferrara. She has three kids with him and yeah, yeah that was… I could tell you all about the Asian-doing-porn starlets of the past.
Wow, so much experience.
And not just that of experience and knowing it but I also did my research. I had to know who everybody was. I had to watch their videos. I had to know who’s dating who, all this other stuff. And in the beginning it was all about Asian websites that were out there. And yeah, that was kind of crazy. So I knew a lot of these girls just through meeting each other and passing through the Asian websites he used to shoot all the time. Have you heard of him? I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Mr. Chews Asian Beaver?
I haven’t.
Oh my gosh. Yeah. Like anyone Asian, even remotely Asian, even kind of looking Asian, they would put on there and they would put us all in schoolgirl outfits, except here’s the deal. Their distributors were Filipino, but they did not want to see one of their own in porn. So it’ll say your name, but then underneath, it’ll say your ethnicity and if you were Filipino, you had to change it.
What?
I know, I know. Isn’t that crazy? So I had to say, I said I’m Chinese in that video.
What?
I know, I know.
That is so bizarre.
I know. But then again, have you heard of the series, Screw My Wife Please?
No.
Okay. It was a huge DVD series called Screw My Wife Please. And I think at the beginning you did like sort of write in and be like, “Hey, I want this porn star to fuck my wife or whatever.” And, but of course in time they had to become like actual performers and those higher-ups were Filipino and wanted to see their own in it. So then one time they had like an office somewhere in the Valley and I was picking up some tallying copies and everyone in that office was Filipino like, “Oh, Lucky, yay. Come on in.” And so, it could work one way or the other, but I don’t know that that other one was still kind of like, “Mm, okay. I guess I’m Chinese today.”
Did they throw that on you on like that day?
Yes. And then the thing is I was looking at that website because I was all about scoping out all the Asian websites and being mad, I’m like, “Why haven’t they shot me yet? Why haven’t they shot me yet? What’s wrong with me? What am I, chopped liver?” And they’d shoot all my friends and I’d be like, kind of sitting there like, “Mm, okay. I guess I’m just chopped liver.” And then, I was wondering why all the girls that I knew were Filipino had to say something else or said something else. And so once I actually got on the set, I found out why. And I’m like, “Okay, I know, I know.” You should Google it. I don’t know if it’s still around Mr. Chew is like C-H like chew, chew food, Asian Beaver, but yeah.
Do you think he was like trying to like protect like…
I don’t know, I don’t know.
Like what? That’s so bizarre.
But Asians, there will always be work for us in porn. So you know.
Yes.
‘Cause especially like Asian MILFs, holy shit. Oh my gosh. And the thing is a lot of the mainstream companies aren’t acknowledging it that much, but we have our fans now and they, as long as they’re there, then we have a job. Thank God for the fan sites.
Yes.
Yeah.
Speaking of fan sites, is there anything that you would like to promote today aside from your book?
Oh, well, you know, there’s OnlyFans, but I wish I could fucking upload my next scene on there, but it’s saying that I can’t. So I’m gonna have to figure that out at some time today.
Yeah.
What else? Oh yeah. I just shot a scene for Mommy Blows Best. And I just shot a scene for Trike Patrol. And if a lot of people out there don’t know what Trike Patrol is, it’s a website that used to start off where they’d go to the Philippines in a tricycle. You know what a tricycle is? Yeah, of course, you know it, who why am I asking?
Well, the audience doesn’t know. Tricycle.
Okay. I don’t know if you know what a tuktuk is in Thailand, it’s basically like a motorcycle with like a little sidecar and it’s all covered and you could sometimes haggle with them for a really cheap ride somewhere, which I’ve done many times. And the tricycle would go around and find girls, unsuspecting girls, and then take them home to take them back to wherever to film a scene. But now with everything going on, especially with when PornHub did a total cleanse of all the non-performers, they have to do everything strictly by the book. So that’s why I think they have to go with actual legitimate performers now. Yeah. But if you have a Filipino fetish, that’s the website to go to.
Yes, yes, you’re right.
Sorry, I talk too much, man. Don’t I? I talk too much.
No, I had a great time talking with you today.
[foreign language] That’s all I know. [foreign language] Ganda, maganda, maganda.Maganda. “Maganda” means beautiful, everyone. And “salama” means thank you.
Thank you. My mom taught me how to make fun of people in Tagalog, but that’s about it. Like… [foreign language]
Oh yeah, same. I know all the curse words.
Mabaho or masarap. Masarap or my mom would sometimes look at something and be like, “Bangye” and I’d be like, “Mom,” she’d be like, “Bangye.”
Okay. We’re not gonna teach how to say…
No, my mom, first of all, doesn’t know I’m in porn, but my sister did. So I’m just like, “Oh, I wonder if my sister said anything down the line.” But my sister was a huge support of me being in porn ’cause suddenly I was the cool sister because I wasn’t for the longest time. But yeah. So that’s how that goes.
Yeah. Wow. That’s cool that you were able to keep that on the DL.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, it’s so funny because I dedicate this book to my mom and it says, “I’d like to dedicate this to my mom.” My mom doesn’t know what I do for a living, but she taught me to do everything to the best of your abilities and she’s my hero.
Aw. That’s so beautiful.
Maybe I’ll come out to her in Paris under the Eiffel Tower, I’m like, “Oh mom, guess what?** I might as well just get it out there. [chuckle]
Just do whatever feels right.
No, it’s awkward. I think she’d rip on me more of the fact that she thought I was Tutabah than know what I was actually doing.
Don’t say that.
Yeah. [chuckle] Taba means “fat” for all you guys out there.
Yeah. Yeah. No, don’t. She can’t speak like that. Anyway.
But she fat-shamed me my whole life. [laughter]
Yeah. That’s definitely…
Even when I was at my skinniest, she’d still fat-shame me, and I’m like, okay, whatever. I just realized now it’s a cultural thing, so I cannot blame her.
Yeah, it definitely is. [chuckle] Don’t worry, my parents did too.
Really?
But I wasn’t that…
And you were like a rail. Like what are you? 80 pounds soaking wet or something like that?
No, I’m 100 and I just weighed myself yesterday, 110.
Oh nice. I’m afraid to get on my scale because it’s weird ’cause I…
Seeing your weight is your worst fear.
I saw my mom and she fed the shit out of me. And I don’t know if you saw the video I posted on Instagram, how she is making chicken adobo and then all of a sudden she put waffle, she goes, “Okay, chicken and waffles.” I’m like, “That’s not exactly how we do chicken adobo waffles, but whatever, I’ll eat it.” But then I’m like having garlic rice and she made it in two seconds. I’m like… “I’ll mess her up.” [laughter]
Thank you so much for spending time with me today, and hey you know…
Thank you. Thank you.
It was fun chatting with you.
Fun chatting with you. Don’t be a stranger. [laughter]
Jada: Yes, of course. Next up we have Ember Snow and yeah, she’s going to be our last person for AAPI Heritage Month. Thank you all for coming and spending time with us and asking Lucky questions. Make sure you check her out on HotMovies!
Check this out baby. Check that pussy, this wet. My Lucky wet. I’m just kidding. [laughter] Can I do that? Can I do that on Instagram? I don’t know. I don’t know.
I mean, it happened. You’re fully clothed and we can’t see anything.
Okay, good. Good. [laughter]
Anyway, bye.
Bye.
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