Unzipped Exclusive: Chatting with Brent Corrigan!

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This is all pretty self-explanatory, but just in case: Your Unzipped editor (ZS) recently chatted up Brent Corrigan (BC) on the sexy AOL Instant Messenger thingy and, well, this is the chat transcript!

Note that this is only part one of the conversation. Yes, there are two parts. Why? Because a) we talked too long, and b) studies show that you should never have to spend more than 10 minutes reading any one thing on the Internet. So come back on Thursday for part two (which is even better than part one!).

Now, click through to see what the upcoming Freshmen cover boy has to say about everything from dancing for dollar bills to his Disney doppleganger, Zac Efron.

ZS: Hey Brent!

BC: Hey there Zach!

ZS: how you doing?

BC: eh, same as always ;-)  y tu?

ZS: Ha...good. I am fine. Better now that I’m talking to you! So, you’ve been busy lately haven’t you? What are you currently working on?

BC: Well, I begin shooting again around the first week of June and through the second week.  Very big, very stressful project. I am directing as well as playing two of ME's

ZS: uh oh. two brents in one movie?

BC: think ‘Parent Trap’ meets your favorite twink film. It's exquisitely written, but shhhh. Don't tell anyone. 

ZS: OK. I won’t say anything. who wrote the script?

BC: A friend of mine, Jody Wheeler.  He also wrote and directed "In The Closet."

ZS: Nice. I remember that short film; it was very cool. So, last time I saw you, you were winning GayVNs and having a blast in San Francisco. What did you do with your trophies? Academy Award winners say they put their Oscars in the bathroom or on a bookshelf somewhere. Where are yours?

BC: ha! Um, I put all three in my shrine.

ZS: You have a shrine to yourself?

BC: It's not a shrine to myself, more a shrine to my memories. Random artifacts from my sordid life. I have a closet full of memories, everything is strategically placed.  They are there next to my first AEBN award for "Most Downloaded," which I received for Schoolboy Crush. And also, my 2008 Cybersocket Surfer's Choice Award for Best Porn Star Site. I lost that one this year—purely because I forgot to link my readers early enough for them to vote in time for me ;-)

ZS: Obviously. Your blog is really popular.

BC: I used to spend my life on the blog, when I was 19 and 20. It was the only way I had to promote myself. Things are different now, and I just can't afford to sit on there all the time. It's important to me, but it's not where Brent Corrigan starts and ends.

ZS: Right. We can't live online all the time. How would you be able to make movies if you were sitting in front of your computer all day?

BC: or why would anyone want to keep watching them?!

ZS: Back to the GayVNs. You were there with Dink Flamingo from Active Duty. He's sort of a mysterious figure in the porn world and very few people have ever really seen him before. What's he like?

BC: Dink Flamingo loves taking the chance on people. He's in this business for the experience. He's got a big heart, but like anyone else—it only goes so far, you know? A producer has every right to be elusive. It's a big part of self-preservation. 

BC: It's fascinating because what he does and how he does it in the industry is almost polar opposite to what I do. That doesn't mean one is right and one is wrong. I do things the way I do them because it's what keeps me in the industry and keeps me stimulated. He does what he does for the same exact reason. But what we do and how we do it is the variable.

ZS: It sounds like that balance works, and it's evident in the finished product. I just watched Porne Identity (again).

BC: It has worked out very well so far. But I don't expect it to be the bottom line for me when it comes to production. We have an agreement, but there is no exclusivity there, and there will come a time when I have work aside from what I do with him. Hey, I haven't even seen Porne Identity!

ZS: What?!

BC: Those movies are stressful for me, because it's sort of like being suspended between porn and mainstream. I mean, when I am asked to act, porn or no porn, I always want to do a good job. But the porn atmosphere makes that very difficult. There is a casualty to it that makes it hard to take it seriously.

ZS: So wait, porn with a storyline is stressful?

BC: I think the atmosphere "about" a porn movie with a script is stressful.

BC: Trying to come off sincere and sexy while keeping your dick hard is not easy! And, I'm a perfectionist, so it's really hard to just phone in something—even the lines in a porno.

BC: I have to suck it up on shoots like that because no one cares if I want to do a good job or not, as long as I cum and keep my dick hard.

ZS: It sounds like you separate the two pretty distinctly…the acting (dialog, etc.) and the fucking.

BC: well, they are two uniquely different prospects.

ZS: Sounds complicated...honestly I hadn't thought much about it before. A lot of viewers might just assume that everything's the same on set.

BC: well, for a lot of performers maybe it is, I really can't speak for them.

BC: The sex for me needs to come naturally, come second nature, for it to be as good as it is. If it doesn't, everything I was notably good at doing originally becomes cheapened. And then people start saying things like "His best work is behind him.”  Which is complete bullshit.

ZS: I think you just turned everyone on who’s reading this knowing that the on-screen sex you're having is authentic.

BC: definitely, and when it's forced the only thing hot about it is the penetration. That means there is nothing more to it than meets the eye. That's really sad to me.

ZS: Well we don't want you to be sad.

BC: I think a lot of fans and viewers are only captivated by a big dick penetrating something for so long before they search for something more, like the guy who spends his life fulfilling his need for human contact through meaningless sex and then realizes he needs a partner and a relationship for it to mean something. 

BC: The real fans and viewers who spend money in this industry regularly know what they want, and they develop a very specific palate. They know what good porn is better than anyone else. Better than the producers, often times.

ZS: Speaking of fans...what do you think of your fans?

BC: Honestly, a mixture of love, appreciation and fear.

ZS: There are some pretty intense ones out there.

BC: these people turn on you so quickly it's really kind of scary.

ZS: Have you seen all the You Tube slideshows people have created of you?

BC: Some of them, yes. I have a fear of fanatics.

ZS: or have you looked at any of the message boards, etc.

BC: Lately, most of my blog comments have been from foreign fans.  I am big in Japan and China.

ZS: I'm not surprised. So, switching gears…let's talk about Twitter.

BC: ha!

ZS: Why aren’t you on Twitter?

BC: I don't see the point I guess.

ZS: You mean you don't see the value in people knowing what you are doing 24/7 in 140 character text messages, all day long, every day?

BC: People would be very disappointed if they knew what I was doing all the time.

BC: "In the gym"
BC: "woke up late"
BC: "ate dinner"

ZS: Thrilling.

BC: interesting things happen to me, really. I am not really the instigator in much of it.

ZS: Speaking of "in the gym"....what the heck do you do to look the way you do?

BC: The gym is tough.  As I get older, I realize I need more of it. I used to be so lean I could just flex my abs and they were there. I'm at 150 lbs, 5'7. I've put on a lot of muscle for my size, but I have done it steadily. I just had my body mass index done and I carry a lot of water weight just under my skin on top of my muscle, which means unfortunately as I get older it will be harder to keep that 'toned' look that I was known for in years past.

BC: I also feel compelled to work out because I don't want to be considered a twink when I am 25, or even 23 for that matter. My face is changing. I've been through so much in the last 3 years that I am not going to look so young forever. It's time to grow, and for someone built like me that means more time and effort to change.

ZS: I can't speak for everyone—although let's just say that I am—but I think you look better now than you ever have.

BC: Thanks! Now, what do I do in the gym? It’s 5-7 days in the gym. I work out every part of my body, even my legs and butt despite a bad leg injury a few years back (my knee swells on the right side if I don't watch it). I can't dance because of it all. Which is why when you see me "appear" people say I can't dance well. I don't dance for fun any more, so I never get practice. I am going to be dancing less and less for appearances. It's just not worth it anymore. I have a better time meeting the fans and talking to them than taking their $1, anyway.

ZS: People give you $1 dollar bills? Rude.

ZS: They should at least be $5's

BC: Besides, I feel more degraded shaking my ass in my underwear on stage than I do when I am just selling my sex on DVD's.

ZS: Hey, I just realized we’re running short on time! Let's do a lighting round! I’ll throw out a name, and you tell me the first thing you think of.

BC: ok, great! Lightning.

ZS: First up, your twin—Zac Efron.

BC: Ha!  We're running parallel in two different sides of the industry. I think he is going to have a tough time getting people to take him seriously outside of Disney. I am having a great time working myself into mainstream and quite honestly, I love putting myself out there as a real human being. It seems so sad because he has to hide away from the world to make sure what Disney, his agents and "people" build as his "image" stays intact. As we both get older, people are going to find it harder and harder to compare us. I think he's got talent in a lot of ways, but I think I do too, as well. Lets be up front, anyway…the only real reason anyone could find a comparison between the two of us is the hair. Right? Oh, and by the way, I loved how he told us he's going to put his "ass out there" in that GQ article.

BC: And I would bet money that someone, somewhere along the line has alerted him to me ;-)

ZS: Something tells me he probably already knew who you were before anyone alerted him to you.

ZS: OK. Next up: What do you think of Mason Wyler?

BC: Oooooh...umm…well. Here’s the thing…

[Come back on Thursday for Part Two of this conversation, where Brent reveals his thoughts on Mason, Swine Flu, and takes tons of questions from his fans. See you Thursday!]