One month following the release of his first scene Ford was listed as one of the top ten best international newcomers in France’s biggest gay magazine, Tetu. But with time and experience I became more confident in my body and ability to act out my sexuality in front of a camera, to the point where I would nearly direct my own scenes knowing what worked or not.”
I was so shy, and I’m not even sure the scene was any good. Within a week I was on set.”įord describes his first day on that set as the most awkward experience of his life.
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Antoine, the producer, is such a sweetheart, so full of positive energy, that I was easily swayed into joining the studio. When I turned 25 a studio called French Twinks asked me to film for them. “I was attracted to the idea of letting go of my own insecurities and doing something rather outrageous. “I had always fantasised about porn actors and the way they could harness their sexuality in a way to feel empowered,” he says. Like the porn star François Sagat, who is also interviewed in this issue, Ford studied and worked in Fashion Design in the same college in Paris after leaving school, and his entry to the world of adult entertainment was propelled by a love of porn. It gives me the ability to navigate life without the structure that society forces on straight people.” I’ve always said that being gay was the best thing that could have happened in my life. I never really came out I just introduced a boyfriend to my parents. One day it became clear and without an ounce of doubt I accepted myself and my sexuality.
I knew I was different and attracted to guys early on in life. And the values taught there have been within me ever since. “It was such a safe and pleasant life,” he says. (He’s not forthcoming about his real name, saying “I prefer to retain a small part of ‘me’ for myself”.) “My life has been somewhat of a whirlwind,” says Theo Ford. With a Franco-Irish mother and a French father, the 28 year-old adult entertainment star was born in Nice in the south of France, but grew up in Waterford, a place he adores so much his stage name comes from it. This article was originally found in the December 2016 Sex Issue of GCN which is available online here. Now living in Sydney, he talks to Brian Finnegan about the good and bad sides of a career in the adult entertainment industry, why he thinks porn actors have a responsibility to educate, and the politics of exclusion within the LGBT community. Since then he’s become one of gay porn’s busiest performers, with over 120 movies under his belt. Growing up in Waterford, Theo Ford had a golden experience, coming out by simply introducing his boyfriend to his parents.