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Recently, I've
been reacquainted with a dear old friend: Chicagoan Derek da
Silva. We met up at a café to catch up and he told me
about the punk band he's in, being a member of a corporate society,
his vegetarianism, and being involved with the BDSM community.
Yes, the years have flown by, but not much has changed with
Derek, except that now he's also a PORN STAR! OMG! His latest
film debuts at IML. It's called "Folsom Prison," the
next in a line of extreme fetish films by TitanMen!
 Byrd Bardot (BB): What made you get into porn?
Derek
da Silva (DdS):
I had this fantasy as to what it would be like to do porn; as
do many others. I was in my mid-30s kind of looking at it like
'Well, this body could probably do this for a while bit longer.
So if I'm going to do porn I should do it now because in a few
years I'd be too old to get any work in this industry.' I'm
really not into watching porn myself but there's this company
called Shotgun that does CBT (Cock and Ball Torture) videos I
really liked and the director of those videos was also the "Top"
in them. I thought to myself that I would really like to do
a scene with this guy, and of course doing a scene with him meant
doing it on video. That's how I got my start. He beat my balls
until they were swollen and I loved it because I'm a total masochist
and sadist. And from there I just started doing BDSM fetish
videos.
BB: And, now you're with
TitanMen?
DdS: Yea, I applied with
Titan for their new fetish line of videos: Folsom. My first
film with them was called "Folsom Filth." I even got
to be the coverboy! But nobody really knew it because I wore
this mask and wild dog eye contacts that made me totally unrecognizable!
I played my master's henchman. In the film I abduct Patrick
O'Connor, chain him to chair, strip him, and then torment him.
It's really crazy! The films I do are extreme!
BB: I've been hearing about
a reputation
DdS: Yea, "Folsom Filth"
gave me this reputation as a crazy insane brute.
BB: In the new film "Folsom
Prison," your real life sir, Tony Buff, plays the corrupt
prison guard who exploits the inmates for his own sexual perversions.
The group scene beat down, just before the gangbang, is really
physical and brutal! Did you get hurt? 
DdS: Hurt, Yes! Injured,
No!
BB: Huh?
DdS: Hurt means the feeling
of pain. After that scene I had minor bruises. I was really
being punched and kicked straight on. Some of the actors really
never did such a scene before, so we coerced them to let loose
and once they did it was pretty cool. I did end up having a
bruise above my kidney, which wasn't cool, but we like to say
'extreme' is like a contact sport! I do enjoy pain but I don't
want injuries that are going to dog me for days or months to
come! It's just like when you play football; injuries are a possibility.
BB: Are there many of re-takes?
DdS: In that scene from
"Folsom Prison" during the first take, the guys just
weren't hitting me hard enough! I'm like, "You guys have
to beat the crap out me!" I do martial arts as my sport.
So, I'm use to getting hit. It really doesn't faze me, just
as long as the punch isn't so hard that it injures me. Porn
is fun, but making it can get pretty boring and tedious. A 20-minute
scene can take many hours to film.
BB: So, how does one keep
themselves interested in what their trying to achieve on film?
DdS: You really have to
keep your head in the scene the whole time. That's part of the
talent of being a porn actor. The good ones are able to maintain
a high level of sexual energy, continuing to be turned on by
what they're doing and conveying that to the camera even though
they're dealing with lighting, someone hanging over them with
a microphone, and all sorts of other distractions that the viewers
just aren't aware of. It's about the viewers' fantasies, not
about the actors' fantasies.
 BB: Has the media (film reviewers) accepted these
types of extreme fetish films? Do you think it frightens them;
because it does push the envelope?
DdS: Oh, I think it most
definitely does frighten them. Certainly some of my movies get
very hostile reactions from reviewers. I've read reviews that
the bottom was clearly on drugs! I don't do drugs when I play
and haven't done any drugs since I was a teenager. The reviewers
have said stuff like 'He was high. He's on drugs.' Or, they suggest
that I was coerced into doing a scene; but often times, the scene
was my idea. One reviewer suggested that this type of violent
porn was evil, dark, wrong, and asked, 'Where is the love?'
But, they don't pick up that I'm doing the scene with one of
my best buddies, Tovar, and with my life sir, Tony, who I love
very much. I was in a very comfortable environment. These are
all people that I love and trust. Yes, it's something extreme
but there is real love in that too!
BB: What do you think about
"Gay for Pay"?
DsD: Most of the guys that
I've personally met have been bisexual. If that's what someone
wants to watch and the so called "straight guy" wants
to provide that product, that's fine. I'd rather celebrate Queer
ideologies. I don't really understand the whole fascination
with straight men.
BB: You and Tony Buff are
doing a PSA about the four rules not to break in safe BDSM sex?
DsD: Yes, it's going to
be post on www.TonyBuff.Com. The four rules not to break are:
1. Never
leaving someone unattended when they are bound.
2. Breathing control or affixation should never be done when
alone or left unattended.
3. Never play while messed up! Never mix drugs and alcohol with
BDSM. It makes you unaware of what you are doing as a top.
4. Never have unsafe sex.
For more info
about Derek, check out his Myspace page: www.MySpace.com/DerekdaSilva
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