Nick Manning
Posted in Featured, Interviews on Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Nick Manning
Back In the Game
Xtreme Magazine: Nick Manning, it’s a pleasure to be interviewing such a legend in porn. You’ve made quite a name for yourself during your career.
Nick Manning: Here’s the thing about me and porn: I’ve always tried to take the approach that people are gonna like me because I’m cool, and I make porn cool. [laughs] I think that has had a greater impact on our business than anything that has ever happened because nobody thinks of us guys as being cool.
Xtreme: You almost seem like the rock star of porn with all of your Motorhead t-shirts and whatnot.
Nick: Yeah. And if I was a rock star, I’d be the heaviest of them all!
Xtreme: I am so excited to be interviewing you. I had a good feeling that you’d be a good one, plus I love interviewing the guys in the business because you always have a lot to say and are so well-spoken.
Nick: Someday… well, maybe not. I always think that someday I’d like to use my brain again! The truth of the matter is, though, that the whole time I was using my brain, I wished I was using my body.
Xtreme: I’m sure you were using your body! I’m sure you were fucking hot girls left and right when you worked on Wall Street.
Nick: When I realized that I wasn’t going to play in Major League baseball, I realized that all I had was the gym. I was spending fifteen hours a day working, three hours a day working out and the rest of my time sleeping. Now I spend most of my day taking care of my body, working out, getting my rest, and going to do a very physical job. So I feel so much better about how I get to live my day, more than I would in any other career. And honestly I wish I could shoot more. I don’t because I need a day off sometimes too. I’m human!
Xtreme: Another reason that I can do interviews like this is because you’re one of the few guys in the industry who can put your name on a movie. What do you think sets you apart from the rest of the guys in the business?
Nick: There’s a few ways to skin a cat, and I’ve never been the kind of person that I’d refer to as a “paper” anything. In this case, a paper porn star. Now, what does that mean? Somebody who really hasn’t done a bunch but has a bunch of hype. When I first got into the business, I guess I was different because of how I looked and the shape I was in, so I attracted a lot of attention, and I realized that you just had to play ball in order to attract a lot of hype, but I didn’t go that route. I wanted to kick the shit out of it every day and hopefully somebody would notice as I went about it, and that’s what happened. Either you like me or you don’t, either you like what I do on camera or you don’t, either you think I’m a jack-off or you think I’m the coolest cat in the world. I’m the best-prepared person when I get to work of anyone. Of anyone! I could cut my prepared by three-fourths and I’d still be the best-prepared. I went about throwing down in the way I thought was entertaining and in a way I wanted to do it. I don’t think about what will happen in a sex scene but whatever comes out of me, I think of as performance art, and for whatever reason it makes people very emotional about me. If you have haters, it just shows how significant you are. And it’s not a popularity contest. I’m not doing this to make friends. It’s not what I’m about in the adult film industry, but I think the proof is in the pudding because I get fan correspondence saying that they try to fuck like me and I get requests for interviews from radio stations and there’s all sorts of stuff out there about “droppin’ loads like Nick Manning,” so I’m getting a reaction and that’s about all I can control.
Xtreme: So I know that porn wasn’t your first career and you were on Wall Street. How did that transition happen for you?
Nick: I wish I could say that it was very well planned out, but it was more divinely inspired, I’d say. I’ll tell you why. I worked in corporate America for three years total, and during that three year period and I became more sickened by general business practices and even just human nature so it led me to wonder what the hell I was doing it for. You’ve got to be less than forthright in your dealings. I was almost compelled to walk out of my office and quit for about a three month period, so I did. And for whatever reason, I just went down to a local modeling agency that I found in the yellow pages in Manhattan, and I walked in there and we got to talking about what I could do and talking about baseball, and on Saturday they had a casting for “For Love of the Game” with Kevin Costner. So me and a hundred models showed up for the casting, and I was one of the only people they selected along with some minor league players because nobody else could play for a lick, and doing that movie got me into SAG. Then very shortly thereafter I did “Any Given Sunday” and some fitness modeling, and then I did a Playgirl shoot. Back then, Playgirl used to be no penetration, so it was boy/girl but it was all implied. So the way that works is that you have sex with the chick and then you pull out and they snap the picture. In a two-year period, I did a lot of Playgirl shoots, and apparently one of those got out in California and then they started shooting me for all kinds of magazines, and from like 1997-2000 I did hundreds and hundreds of magazines. Sometimes three or four days a week. So even though I was still in Miami, I spent a lot of time in L.A. doing that. Then they started asking me to make movies. You just started spending less time in mainstream and more time in porn. For four or five years I probably didn’t do anything in the mainstream, but it’s funny because then all of a sudden they started calling me to appear in mainstream work as myself. I don’t know what else to say about all of those coincidences!
Xtreme: So obviously you’re really famous for your catchphrases. How did that come to be?
Nick: Well, the first time I ever said “droppin’ loads,” a bunch of us were just screwing around and I honestly thought it would be funny. So I did the pop shot and I said it and I noticed that all the crew guys were laughing and then it was left in the movie. So I did it again and the crew laughed it again and it was just an inside joke for me and the people I was working with. But it kept being left in the movie. It’s so [polarizing]. Some people send me messages about how it’s the funniest thing or the coolest thing ever, and then there are the people who hate me and say, “Fuck that guy!”
Xtreme: Have you ever done that in your private life or is it exclusively reserved for the movies?
Nick: Very rarely in my private life, but it has happened, have I been banging like a mainstream actress or someone and she’s like, “Please say it!”
Xtreme: Wow.
Nick: At that point it’s just silly. You’re just trying to have normal sex with someone! I remember when I was with Tabitha Stevens, we were engaged and would work together and just fuck all the time and one time at home she actually asked me to say it to her. [laughs]
Xtreme: I like that! You mentioned a lot of mainstream work; is that something you want to keep pursuing?
Nick: You know, I would say that I don’t have a preference. I have a saying that work is work. I’m not doing things for money. If you have a project and you’re dedicated to it, I want to be in it. If it’s adult or mainstream or a cool idea or talking to you, I’ll take my time and devote some energy to it and do the best I can with it. So that’s how it goes with me. You don’t know how many meetings I do with people who are pitching me stuff constantly, but if you have integrity, then I’m interested. You lay the foundation one chick at a time, so why would I screw that up now? You could say, “Oh, that Nick, he’ll fuck cement,” and I was like that for a long time. A machine cranking out scene after scene after scene, but at this point in my career I think I’ve earned the right to only be involved in the stuff I want to be involved in. I don’t like doing DPs and scenes with other guys in them. Call me whatever you want but I’m not into dudes and I don’t want them around me when I’m naked, and that makes me weird in the porn business. That’s just not for me. I’m great in a scene with a girl or a couple of girls and I can fuck them silly. I’m pretty sure that’s what I’m best at. Four guys going around banging one chick, that’s for the other guys.
Xtreme: That’s a lot of cocks.
Nick: When I was under contract with certain companies I’d have to do that and it was okay but my head really wasn’t in it. Just not my thing.
Xtreme: What’s your total number?
Nick: I think if you added up all the chicks I’ve ever banged, it would be three or four thousand.
Xtreme: What turns you on?
Nick: You know, I like tens. If you’re a ten, the only thing I might ask you to do is put on some porno makeup and hoop earrings, and then I’ll bang you silly until your eyes roll into the back of your head and I’ll think that’s the sexiest thing ever. The other day, I was with Inari Vachs, and she was out of it because she was so into getting railed, and it was so amazingly hot. There was a moment where I looked at her and was like, “Wow, that’s what life is really about.”
Xtreme: You are a hero among men, Nick, and this has been a true pleasure.
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