After his Bold Care ad with Ranveer Singh went viral online, adult film industry star Johnny Sins spoke about how he got into this line of work.
📹: Tanmay Bhat
📹: Tanmay Bhat
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00:00Do you remember your first scene?
00:02First scene was just a job scene.
00:04Do you remember your first paycheck?
00:06A hundred dollars.
00:08Oh, I take that for first paycheck.
00:09That's what I was like.
00:10I would do it for free.
00:11So I'll take a hundred dollars.
00:13I went to four hundred dollars.
00:14And then about every three months,
00:16he would raise it a hundred dollars.
00:18So I eventually, once that contract was up,
00:20I was making $800 a scene.
00:22And at that point, I was like, it was a career.
00:25I was like, I'm making more than a doctor
00:27or a lawyer would make in a day.
00:29Just to come in.
00:30All professions that you also are.
00:32Just to come in and have and be on set for three hours.
00:40When will someone break into the industry?
00:43Yeah, I had no idea either.
00:45For me, the story is I went to high school with a girl
00:50who eventually got into after high school.
00:53And she would come to my college and party.
00:55And we ended up hooking up there.
00:57And she was like, you should come to L.A.
00:59and do.
01:00You're perfect for it.
01:01At the time, I was 20.
01:02Dude, what a compliment.
01:04What an absolute beast of a compliment.
01:06Dude, you're so good.
01:07You should be.
01:09I was 20 years old.
01:10I was like, yeah, whatever.
01:11I'm going to finish school and have a career.
01:15That was my thoughts.
01:16But fast forward five years.
01:18Graduated college.
01:19Had my career.
01:21And hated it.
01:23I was in construction management
01:25and basically worked 12 hours a day, six days a week.
01:28And now you're in destruction management.
01:31And that was always in the back of my head.
01:33Her voice was like, you should come to L.A. and do.
01:36And after a year of just working my first job and hating it,
01:40I was like, OK, I don't want to do this for the rest of my life.
01:43I want to do what I want to do.
01:45So I just quit that job.
01:47I was working in Las Vegas, quit that job, moved to L.A.,
01:50started pursuing.
01:52So I just started answering ads on.
01:54Back then, I don't know if you guys have Craigslist.
01:56Yeah, we know of it, though.
01:58Yeah, they had an adult section on Craigslist, which is gone now.
02:02And sort of other websites where people listed, you know, adult work.
02:05So I started basically just working for free.
02:08There would be amateur directors that would hire a girl
02:11and they didn't want to pay a guy.
02:12So like, why would I pay a guy?
02:15Do you remember your first paycheck?
02:16A hundred dollars.
02:18Oh, I take that for first paycheck.
02:20That's what I was like.
02:21I would do it for free.
02:23I'll take a hundred dollars.
02:24I went to four hundred dollars.
02:25And then about every three months, you would raise it a hundred dollars.
02:28So I eventually, once that contract was up, I was making $800 a scene.
02:33And at that point, I was like, it was a career.
02:36I was like, I'm making more than a doctor or a lawyer would make in a day.
02:40Yeah.
02:40Just to come in.
02:41All professions that you also are.
02:42Yeah, just to come in and have sex and be on set for three hours.
02:47Do you remember your first scene?
02:50And what was that moment like on set?
02:52Well, I remember going on to set and like, I hadn't chosen a name yet.
02:57The first time on set, you basically tell them what your stage name is going to be.
03:01And that's pretty much your name going forward.
03:03Yeah.
03:04So I hadn't chosen a name yet.
03:05You know, I was kind of going back and forth between a couple of them.
03:08Okay.
03:08Can you tell us what the options were?
03:11Well, Johnny Sins is, everybody thinks my real name is Johnny Sins at this point,
03:16but it's obviously not.
03:18So I got that name from...
03:20Because that would be too much of a coincidence.
03:22Like you would be made for this.
03:24If your name was Johnny Sins.
03:24Your parents would give you a choice.
03:27So one of my buddies in college, I'm not going to say his name,
03:31but his nickname was Johnny Sins.
03:33His name was very similar to it.
03:35So everybody called him Johnny Sins.
03:37And the day I met him, I was like, that's an amazing...
03:42Your friend must be really wondering where he went wrong.
03:46He actually loves it.
03:47Yeah.
03:48That I use his nickname now.
03:50He's actually a lawyer now.
03:53All right.
03:53So you were going to tell us about your first scenes or so to say.
03:56First scene was just a job scene.
03:59And very nervous, obviously.
04:01Not really know what to expect or what's going to happen.
04:06It was a very small set.
04:07So it made it very comfortable.
04:08I believe it was at all POV scenes too.
04:11So I wasn't really even in the scene.