Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (TV Series)

Porn (1998)

Louis Theroux: Self - Presenter

Quotes 

• Louis Theroux : Did you always dream about working in porn when you were growing up?

  Donna Warner : It's what I wanted to do. Sex - just want sex, all the while, nymphomaniac, can't help it.

  Louis Theroux : Really?

  Donna Warner : Yeah. If I worked in an office I'd most probably shag the whole office and get the sack when I got to the boss.

  Louis Theroux : Or get a promotion more likely.

• Sharon Mitchell : The one thing that I've noticed about guys is that they come in very sweet, very open, very tentative and almost tender at times, and then as you see them film after film after film you kind of see that glazed look go over, and it's the look, it's the change, and you suddenly realise that you too could be a piece of meat, a hole in the wall or whatever fantasy is inside their head. It's a degree of the utmost impersonal.

  Louis Theroux : So, does that screw a person up, do you think?

  Sharon Mitchell : Yeah. Yeah, sure, it's gotta screw you up. I mean,

  [laughs] 

  Sharon Mitchell : I know that it screwed me up for many years! And I know that I had to get screwed up to actually work, for many years.

  Louis Theroux : You seem OK, you seem pretty well-adjusted.

  Sharon Mitchell : Well, yeah, um, yeah, but it took me a long time to kick the heroin.

  [she laughs] 

• Troy Halston : [reading from a script for a gay porn film]  I sure am glad I saved you from that city life.

  Louis Theroux : [reading from the script]  Yeah.

  [reads out a stage direction] 

  Louis Theroux : This guy opens door, sees our couple piled in sweat and cum.

  [turns to the camera crew] 

  Louis Theroux : This is a little rude for the BBC.

• [On a porn film set, J.J. is about to do a sex scene] 

  Louis Theroux : [whispering]  How you feeling? Pretty good?

  J.J. Michaels : [whispering]  Yeah.

  Louis Theroux : You got wood yet?

  J.J. Michaels : No.

  Louis Theroux : When do you do that?

  J.J. Michaels : When I'm having sex.

• Louis Theroux : [holding a script]  Before we head down there, can we run a few lines?

  Troy Halston : Sure can.

  [looks at the script] 

  Troy Halston : So I walk in, and then I say...

  [flatly] 

  Troy Halston : "I love you."

  Louis Theroux : Come on, put some feeling into it.

  Troy Halston : I'm not being paid for this.

  [they laugh] 

  Louis Theroux : You're getting... I'm helping you, I'm not being paid...

  Troy Halston : Right, it's acting.

  [he reads the line again] 

  Troy Halston : [still wooden]  I love you.

  Louis Theroux : Oh, come on! Say it with some feeling.

  Troy Halston : I don't even know you.

  [they laugh again] 

  Louis Theroux : It's acting.

  Troy Halston : [still the same robotic delivery]  I love you.

  Louis Theroux : You're giving the same read every time. Go "I love you."

  Troy Halston : But you're going...

  [hammily, with his arms open] 

  Troy Halston : "I love you."

  Louis Theroux : Alright, that scares me. But that was better, yeah. So, try again.

  Troy Halston : [in the same way as before]  I love you.