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Juli Ashton InnerView Continued... AINews: Do you plan on traveling other places in the near future? Those were interesting places to go. Juli: Actually we just got back from Fiji, and Australia. We were shooting the Best of Essentially Juli, in Fiji. So that was pretty amazing. Then we went to Sydney for three days for another movie, a hardcore movie I have coming out called Buried Treasure, which is some scenes I had from the Playboy stuff. I always shoot hard, even though with the Playboy version we can only show softcore, it's really obvious if you're not shooting hardcore, it's too hard to fake. So we shoot it hard anyway then I take all these hard core scenes and put them all together in a movie called Buried Treasure, and tie it all together with an Australian knot and hope someone watches it and enjoys it! (Laughs!) AINews: The less that winds up on the floor the better, right? Especially if you're having fun! Juli: Absolutely! So I think I'll be staying around in the U.S. for a while. That kind of got my travel bug out of me. AINews: Do you think you will feature dance again soon out on the road? Juli: I do, I think last year I went out four times. It's not as creative to me. I'm not a great dancer. AINews: Yes you are. Juli: (Laughs!) I'm NOT! I've seen myself on stage! Oh my god! Not a lot of rhythm! AINews: I saw you at Bob's Classy Lady the last time you were there. I enjoyed the hell out of it! Juli: Thank you, It is fun, but it's hard for one thing. I start to feel my age, staying up late like that. My muscles ache. I feel like a big whiner! (Laughs!) I do have so many things going on I just don't have many weeks I can be away. I do four days here and there. I'm also really picky. It's not about money to me. This career, this life, this adventure I'm on is not about money. If a club I want to work in comes around, or maybe if I see someone is in an area I will see if I can dance there and combine a few things. But to just to go hit the road for a month because of the cash I just can't do it. AINews: What kind of roles do you like to portray when you are filming? Have you gotten any ideas of roles you haven't played that you would like to? Juli: People don't tend to cast me in very dominant roles. AINews: Would you like to play a dominant role? Juli: Absolutely. Maybe it's just my squeaky voice or my girl next door persona… (Laughs!) I don't know what it is. I don't get a lot of dominant roles. Bliss from VCA Antonio Passolini directed it. I really enjoyed it. It was a much darker side of me. I wouldn't want to do that all the time, but it was really fun to find that inside of myself. This angst, this anger… AINews: You got to portray somebody mean? Juli: Yeah, not only just mean, but depressed, dark, and cheating and hypocritical. All of these things that no one has ever cast me as. It was a real challenge for one thing, because I like sex and it is a light atmosphere and I know everybody. It was like, Hey! Now I've got to be depressed. It was a lot of fun to try to do that. I've never done a bondage movie before. That is something I would like to explore, obviously starting as a sub, before I could be a Dom. I'd like to see if that's in me. I know that it's in everybody, so I'd like to find the Dom part of my personality. AINews: That's interesting. It could be real fun. Juli: It could. I figure you don't have to be anything forever. If I don't like it I won't do it again. AINews: When you first got into the business, who helped you the most? Juli: I think three people, at the very, very beginning, helped me the most. My manager, obviously. Shayla LaVeaux, who gave me a lot of support. She had been there and done it, she knew the hurdles. She knew the anxiety. She was really supportive. Steve Orenstein from Wicked Pictures. Without those three I wouldn't be here. I owe a lot to those three people. AINews: It sounds like you've had a good experience in the business. Juli: Absolutely. A lot of it I am grateful everyday for is that I have had such a positive experience. I read stories about these poor girls in the Industry that are being taken advantage of for this or that. I feel as if I am in a gilded cage because I don't see it. I joined VCA so early in my career, and they have been so incredible! What a family! And Wicked! The people that I've been able to work with have been so wonderful that I never saw the dark side of the Industry. It's wonderful, I love it. I feel really bad for the people that do get involved with the darker, slimier side. Because I know its there. It's not that I don't know it, but I have been fortunate enough to be kept away from it. I wish I could do that for other girls. AINews: Are you involved with anticensorship? Juli: I do the lobbying, when ever they have lobbying days for the Free Speech Coalition I go up and I went to Houston for a party they had there. I am definitely willing to do anything like that. I talk about it a lot in interviews and whenever I can, to put the word out there. One of my goals for the Internet is for my site to become more active in education showing how to get a hold of your senator or representative to write them a letter. I do what I can. AINews: How has this business changed you? Juli: I've grown up a lot. I think I'm a lot stronger. When I used to teach school in Colorado I was just out of college. I wasn't very good at discipline and I didn't know how to handle people, I didn't know how to put my foot down. I didn't know the bottom line and I think this business has made me a lot stronger in that sense. I don't take as much bullshit from people as I used to. I get caught up in it every once in a while, but more often than not I know bullshit and I don't take it anymore. And more focused I think. I know where I want to be. I know my end goals. It is a little easier for me to focus now than just being all over the place. AINews: I'm out of questions! Juli: (Laughs!) Oh my God! You know everything now! AINews: I wish I knew everything! You're my favorite porn Star, Juli. You're one girl I'd be proud to bring home to mom. Juli: Thank you. AINews: A wholesome porn star. (Laughs!) Juli: Isn't that weird. It's so odd! AINews: It's like a paradox. "I think that
if people just let go of their fear, they'll find joy." Juli: I think that if people just let go of their fear, they'll find joy. They're such similar emotions. You get the same sensations from both. If people would let go of that fear and go with the joy they would realize that we are not bad people. We're not sluts, we're not drug addicts, and there is nothing wrong with it, we're all consenting adults. I think some of the industry is judgmental, but I think it's much less judgmental than the rest of society. We accept each other, our quirks, our weirdness, a little bit better than the rest of the world accepts us, I think. When people in the industry accept that and get into it they have a lot of fun. That's why I really like these girls that I'm working with now. They're all just happy and they don't care what people think about what they do for a living. They are very confident in themselves and I think it's a beautiful thing. AINews: My last comment is: "The guy who winds up with Juli Ashton is really LUCKY." Juli: (Laughs!) Thank you!
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