Here it is at last! The final installment of our 3-part interview with the incomparable Jenna Haze! Check out Part 1 and Part 2 for all the dirt, and don’t forget to visit Jenna on Twitter and at her website!
W! I think I know maybe three people in the world who are like you. You’re a pretty public stoner, but you work all the time. If I could do that, I would. But I can’t focus if I’m smoking. I can’t make myself work, but your brain must just be wired that way.
JH I’m a little hyperactive. I think that’s what it is. So when I smoke it kind of calms me down and makes me able to focus on what I need to do. And I’ve been smoking since I was twelve, so…
W! laughing Really?
JH Yeah. It’s like ingrained in me. I’ll get people stoned on my medical grade stuff and they’ll be like, “I’m so fuckin’ baked,” but I’m like, “Really? I just smoked the same amount as you, and I feel fine!” I never get, like, “Oh, I’m so fucked up” or anything. I never get like that. It doesn’t affect me like that. And I’m glad. I can do it and I can sort through pictures for hours.
W! I know a few other people like that, where they smoke and they just zone in. But I’m not. I’m like bouncing off the walls and I can’t focus on anything. But, man, it’d be really nice to be able to be stoned all the time.
JH The thing I don’t get is the people I know who get stoned and go to the gym. I have friends who will get stoned and go to the gym. I’m like, “Are you crazy?”
W! Weeeeeeird. I’d be like, “Oh my god everybody’s looking at me! Why are they staring at me?” Well, anyway, do you have a special man or woman in your life right now?
JH Um, no. Well I broke up with Jules [Jordan] last year. It was a very amicable breakup. I really wanted to focus on my career, and he really wanted to focus on building his company. And it just wasn’t the right time for me to be in a serious relationship like that. So, I’m still best friends with him. I talk to him every day, and he comes over to see the dogs, you know. People ask if we’re going to get back together someday, and I dunno, but no matter what he’ll always be one of my best friends and my business partner.
W! That’s great!
JH Yeah, totally! I mean, I’ve known him for ten years. He was a good friend of mine before. Like, why would I end our friendship over something like that? So, I’ve been seeing someone. I mean, you met him. But he’s the first guy I’ve dated outside the business, and so it’s a little bit… new… to him. I’m so used to being able to just do my job and, I mean, Jules never would say anything. And so he wasn’t jealous at first, but he was getting a little bit jealous over time. So, we’re on a little bit of a break right now. I really want to focus on my company right now.
W! Yeah, definitely. But that’s interesting because I would think that he would start out jealous and then get less jealous over time.
JH See, me too! But apparently not. Apparently at the beginning, he was totally fine with it. … But then over time he started falling in love with me, and then he got more and more jealous. And I can understand it, but this is what I’ve always done and it’s what he met me doing, so… I mean, he’s a great guy and he’s really handsome, and we’re still spending time together. So we’ll see. Right now my number one priority is my company, and my career. I don’t want to get my head muddled with anything else.
W! Well good for you, for keeping your head in the game!
JH Well some girls I see in the industry let these relationships take over their lives, and they get into all this drama and let it take over their lives. That is not gonna be me.
W! I think you’ve come to too far to let that happen to you.
JH Well, I think I’m more responsible than a lot of porn stars. I think that makes a big difference. I love my job, I love the industry, I respect the industry, and I’m a hard worker. A lot of girls come in and want to just get paid a lot of money and fuck and party. And that’s fine, I did that my first couple years in the business. But after that I was like, “Ok, I’m calming down. I’m making this a career.” A lot of girls don’t realize that if they play their cards right, this could really be a life-changer for them. They just come in and they think it’s just easy money, and they make it and blow it and make it and blow it, and then they’re like, “Oh, I have nothing left!”
W! You see so many people who were in the industry but then just disappear. But, if you just plan well and spend your money wisely, this can be a much longer career.
JH That’s one of the reasons I’ve lasted so long, I mean I have friends in the business, but I don’t go to all these parties. Like you see, every single week, the press releases: “This person’s having a party here! This person’s having a party there!” At least weekly or bi-weekly. But I don’t go to any of them. I go to the big events and the big conventions. Other than that, I try to be involved in the business, but still have a little bit of separation. Because, yeah, I feel like if you get involved too much, it’s very much like high school. There’s little cliques and there’s drama, and I really feel like that can harm your career if you get involved in all that.
W! And it must be exhausting. The toll on your body, too, from always being out partying, must be intense.
JH Yeah, exhausting! I mean I used to be able to do it when I was 19, but now I’m like, “Eh.” I drink one night, and I’m like, “Ohhhh my god” the next day!
W! Yeah, now that we’re old it’s different.
JH We’re old now! I don’t know how old you are, but I’m old.
W! I think we’re about the same age.
JH I’m 29 now, man! Next year’s 30!
W! Well you still look great, and that’s important.
JH Yeah, I guess. It’s kind of blowing my mind that I spent my entire twenties in porn. Woah. Like right now, my ten-year anniversary is this summer, and it’s… well, it’s a third of my life! Like, wow! I’m trying to wrap my mind about that, a little bit. I’ve spent almost as much time in porn as I have in school.
W! Wow. So are you gonna do anything big for the ten-year anniversary?
JH I don’t know. Everyone’s asking me that. I don’t know. I have a couple of ideas that I might want to do. I mean, first of all, I’m gonna have a big party. It’s probably gonna coordinate with a movie release. And there are some other little things I might do but I don’t want to talk about the, cause if I don’t do them then it’ll be sad.
W! Speaking of events, are you going to be at Exxxotica in Miami?
JH Yes! I always do Exxxotica. It’s the only big one I always do.
W! Great! We’ve just decided we’re going to go, too. We’re going to have a booth and everything!
JH Cool, you haven’t been to the Miami one yet?
W! Not yet. But I’ve heard good things!
JH Oh my god. It used to be the best money-making one, but now New Jersey’s the best money-making one for me. I killed it. But the first two years I went to Miami, I killed it there, and this last year just a little bit less than it usually is. But I love the Miami one because I just love Miami. I spend my mornings on the beach, go sign, go to dinner, go to clubs that night, try to be good. But it’s only like four or five hours of work each day! It’s awesome. I actually flew out like four days early and worked on my tan and shit.
W! That’s our plan this year! Just hang out on the beach for a while. But, then again, if I do that, I’ll get sunburned and it’ll be really embarrassing at the convention. So maybe I won’t do that.
JH Awww! You can get sunblock. The thing about the beach is that there’s a lot of topless beaches there!
W! Oooooooh…..
JH Yeah, topless beaches! I didn’t know it was topless, and I was doing a photo shoot with a fan/photographer/friend of mine, who started out as a fan. Then he became a friend. And then I realized he was a photographer so he shot me. And he comes down to Miami beach every year, and two or three years ago I was getting a photo shoot on the beach, and I was taking all the sexy photos in the ocean and stuff, and all these people were staring at me, cause it’s a public beach, and all of a sudden Belladonna and Sasha Grey run up to me, topless. I was like, “What the fuck? You can take your top off?! Fuck yeah!” No top. I got used to that, and it’s pretty cool.
W! That’s pretty much the best beach party ever.
JH Right! Me, Sasha Grey, and Belladonna, on a beach, topless? Heaven!
W! That’s exactly what I was thinking, but I didn’t want to say it because I didn’t want to be creepy.
JH Nah, that happened. I mean, I love Belladonna. Anything with Belladonna, I love! She’s like my favorite girl in the business.
W! Yeah, I’ve noticed that a lot of people kind of worship her.
JH You know, I’ve known her for so long, ever since I got into the business. And I’ve seen her come from this intense performer into a really crazy director, company owner, and all this stuff. And, you know, she’s been kind of a role model for me. You know, getting a company going and stuff. While our styles are completely different, absolutely different, and some of the things she does make me go, “What?! You have a teddy bear fucking Sasha Grey? What?!” Some of the things she does, I don’t understand because it doesn’t turn me on personally. But I really love her creativity. I really respect her as a director. And I love that she’s not to push the limits and be herself. She’s an amazing girl. I doubt fisted her, too! Laughing.
W! So, do you have any people you haven’t shot yet for your company that you want to?
JH You know, people always ask this question, and who I want to work with that I haven’t yet. And I always draw a blank. And then afterwards, I’m like, “Oh I should have said this person!”
W! You could make a list and just keep it on hand…
JH There’s a girl in the business that I really like. Her name is Adrenalynn, and I really like her. I don’t know if you know her.
W! Oh yeah, I met her. [Ed. Note: Jenna actually introduced us.]
JH I’ve worked with her once, and I want to get her into a Jennaration X movie, but unfortunately I don’t think she’s shooting. Even though she has fake boobs! I tried to get her for the fake boob movie! But she was like, “I dunno…” I was like, “Dammit, can’t you just do it for me, please?” Maybe I’ll make a second installment of it and you can be in it, or… I’d love to shoot her.
Melanie Rios, this little tiny Latin girl, I really want to shoot her for my company. And there are so many new girls getting in that are so hot. Every time I meet a new girl, I’m like, “Oh she’s hot, let’s shoot her!” I’m looking forward to shooting Taylor Vixen for my Meow 2 movie. I’m looking forward to doing a scene with Marie Luv for one of my movies. She’s a really intense performer. When I saw her in Legs Up Hose Down, I was like, “Oh man, I’ve gotta get into a scene with her!” So she’s gonna be in one of them. There are so many girls!
I have lists in my phone for each movie I’m planning on doing, and the girls I want to shoot for it. I’ve got like five or six movie lists going on in my phone right now.
W! Well, we’ve been on the phone for almost an hour, so I’m gonna let you go!
JH Oh, ok, well, you guys are great! I love hanging out with you!
W! Well, duh, we love you too! Let’s get together in Miami!
JH Definitely, we’ll have to do something! Cool.
W! Have a great day! Have fun with your interviews!
—Interview conducted by the WHACK! staph’s chief degenerate, Miss Lagsalot.