BRIANA BANKS INTERVIEW

Q: Briana Banks, thank you for taking the time to speak with us today. I’m sure many fans out there, like myself, want to get to know the *real* you … up close and personal. Many of the questions I ask you today were given to me by your fans who have purchased your movies.

Briana Banks: I look forward to letting everyone get to know me better. Although I’ve been in the business for about two years now making movies for other companies, until I signed with Vivid, no one really ever wanted to know anything about me. To be honest, I was kind of shocked that I had fans.

Q: You are a blonde goddess. Who wouldn’t love you?

Briana Banks: *giggles* Okay then … let’s get started.

Q: When Vivid released your first feature for them called “Briana Loves Jenna” it immediately became a best seller based on pre-sales alone and it is an amazing movie. You and Jenna were great together. What was it like working with Jenna Jameson?

Briana Banks: Her tongue is amazing!!! Several times I got so caught up in what she was doing to me I lost concentration on what I was supposed to be doing. Jenna’s not anything like I thought she would be, or heard about. She’s really nice, totally professional and taught me so much during the short time we worked together. I considered it an honor to have had the chance to work with her and look forward to doing it again. She is without a doubt one of the best in the business. No make that the world. I love to get off, who doesn’t? But when Jenna’s in action – it’s mind blowing.

Q: Do you really get off when you are working?

Briana Banks: That’s a really good question … truth is, it just depends. Making a movie isn’t anything like most people think. You have so many breaks in between, it’s really hard to get going – break – get going – break and so on. Sometimes you get lucky with someone like Jenna and things get so hot, the director won’t call cut and let us just keep playing. Even if we get off track. *smile*

Q: When you go out in public, do people come up to you? And if so, what’s that like?

Briana Banks: Until recently I would have said no. But this last few weeks, especially since Vivid released “Briana Loves Jenna” and “Flick”, yah … I’ve gotten that a few times.

The first time was at the mall. Bobby wasn’t with me at the time and at first it freaked me out. I was like, why is this guy coming up to me and then I realized, oh my god, he’s a fan! That is so cool.

Q: Any sex tips you can give us?

Briana Banks: OH YES! I’m glad you asked that. First to the girls out there … RELAX! Have fun! Enjoy your body! Sex isn’t something to be ashamed of. It’s a wonderful experience. The more you relax and just let things happen, the happier you will be in life. So trust me on this one. And to you guys out there … we girls are insecure. If she’s not sucking your cock, it’s probably because you aren’t making her feel secure about who she is and your relationship. Work harder on letting her know how hot you think she is, how much you totally love her and are into her and watch how much more sex you get!!

Briana Bany was born in Munich, Germany to a German father and American mother. They moved to Britain when she was four years old, and to the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley in California, United States when she was seven years old. Her father still lives in Germany. She moved out of her mother’s house when she was 16 years old, taking her 14 year old sister with her. She got custody of her sister when she turned 18. She modeled as a teenager, including a cover of Teen magazine. She held various other jobs before entering the adult industry; making pizza, clerk at an arts and crafts store, file clerk, and secretary.

Career

In 1999, she responded to an ad in the newspaper to do nude modeling for adult magazines. The photographer put her in a pornographic film. Her first film was University Coeds 18, for Dane Entertainment, in which she performed opposite Brandon Iron. She entered the industry under the name “Mirage”, but began calling herself “Briana Banks” in 2000, after having the first of two breast enlargement operations. Having had aspirations of being a supermodel, she chose the professional surname “Banks” after model Tyra Banks. Her first appearance using the new name was in the film Decadent Whores 9. She was Penthouse magazine’s Pet of the Month in June 2001. The same year, she signed with Vivid Entertainment.

Banks claims to have the longest legs in the business (36″/91cm inseam).  She has a ribbon tattoo on her lower back. For several years, her regular boyfriend was pornographic actor Bobby Vitale, but they broke up in 2006.

In 2002 Banks was one of the first pornographic actresses to have an action figure made in her likeness, by Los Angeles based company Cyber F/X and Sota Toys.

Banks was a contributing author in the 2004 book How To Have a XXX Sex Life: The Ultimate Vivid Guide (ISBN 9780060581480, from ReganBooks), in which she and other Vivid contract stars give advice and tips about sex, as well as relate anecdotes from their personal sex lives.

On October 13, 2006, Banks reportedly filed a federal lawsuit seeking more than US$75,000 in damages against Doc Johnson Enterprises charging that they had created unauthorized products from molds of her genitals.

Awards

• Penthouse Pet June 2001
• Hot D’Or Cannes 2001 – Best American New Starlet
• AVN Awards for “Best Renting Title of the Year”, and “Best Selling Title of the Year”, Briana Loves Jenna, 2003
• 2009 AVN Hall of Fame inductee

Yes, the same marvelous city that calls Oktoberfest home, gave birth to this goddess.  So does Briana like lifting a liter of brew and munching on Munich’s best sausages?  Mmmm, better try other forms of recreation, such as hitting the gym and the slopes in the form of snowboarding.  Although I’m sure she doesn’t mind other forms of … sausage.  Besides the many films she has been in and a burgeoning nude modeling career, including appearances in Penthouse.

Briana Banks is a beautiful blonde, wild, nymphomaniac who seems born to be a model/porn star. Briana was featured on the cover of the June 2001 Penthouse and in a 12-page Pet of the Month pictorial and centerfold shot by famed photographer Earl Miller. She was also on the cover of the May 2001 issue of Club magazine, and the centerfold for April 2001 issue of High Society. All of that coverage caught of the of Vivid.

In was in June of 2001 that the then 22-year-old, German-born Briana signed a two-year contract for a minimum of nine features per year.  One of her first movies for Vivid is still one of her most popular to this day, ” Briana loves Jenna”.  Briana’s contract was renewed at the end of her 2 years and she remains one of Vivid’s most well loved starlets … a true fan favorite.

Briana, a one-time insurance auditor who started her modeling career as a teenage fashion model in Europe, says she is thrilled to have been chosen as a Vivid Girl. “The adult field is my passion and I feel that being a Vivid Girl is the pinnacle for anyone interested in erotic acting,” she says.

Briana says her hobbies include Super motorcross, snowboarding and surfing.  Her favorite mainstream movies inlude “Casino”, “Scarface” and “King Pin”.  Music wise she loves The Dave Mathews Bad and Linkin Park.

When Briana Banks first got into the business she started dating well known porn stud Bobby Vitale. They dated for about two years and finally married in 2003. Although I’m not sure when they divorced, Briana said in 2006 she has been with her current boyfriend for almost a year so that means that Briana Banks and Bobby Vitale weren’t married more than about a year. So it seems that Briana’s breakup with Bobby Vitale was just about the time she cleaned up her act.

Our insider sources that were close to Briana say that before cleaning herself up, Briana was a mess. She was by all accounts an extremely heavy drug user and most who knew her wouldn’t be surprised to wake up one day and hear they found Briana dead in a ditch somewhere. She was out of control but she was so amazingly hot people put up with it. Thankfully some people who truly care about Briana got her some help and Vivid stood behind her. When she got out of rehab they were they waiting with open arms willing to support her through the rough times and see her through to a bright new future.

With Vivid’s help, the new clean Briana has seen her career skyrocket. She is one of the most popular porn stars now in the industry. Some sources say Briana Banks is the #3 most popular porn star with Jenna Jameson first and Tera Patrick second but some don’t include Jenna Jameson in the list because she has officially retired and sold off her brand to Playboy … making Briana Banks #2. Some base the list of porn star popularity soley on Internet searches, and based on that alone, in January of 2007 Briana Banks and Tera Patrick are neck and neck. Briana Banks had 146,036 and Tera Patrick was at 147,600 (numbers based on Overture published results). Extremely close! However Jenna Jameson still sits atop with 4x as much, at 401,828.

Is Briana retired? No. For most of 2007 and early into 2008 Briana is on what is called a reduced work schedule but that doesn’t mean she’s slacking by any means. Rumor has it Briana is just saving herself for the big projects and it seems to be paying off! At the 2008 AVN Awards which was held on January 12, 2008 in Las Vegas Briana Banks was given the award for best actress in a film for her work in the movie Layout.

In January of 2008 Briana did an interview for xcitement online magazine which said that she was moved back to LA is has returned to work full time. “I missed everyone. I missed Vivid. I am so glad to be back with them. They are a great company. I have been with them for so long, I can’t imagine being with anyone else.” When asked where she had been for the last two years she said “Pittsburgh. I am very happy to be back in LA. I think I needed to leave and clear my head and get everything back together. I actually missed porn. I didn’t realize how much I missed it until I came back.”

It was in this interview that Briana addressed the issue of her weight gain. Briana Banks keep in mind is very tall and stands an amazing 5 foot 10 inches. So according to a weight chart, a small framed person of her height should weigh around 132 to 145 pounds. Briana said “I put on a little bit of weight while I was living in Pittsburgh because they eat hoagies and piergies and drink a lot of beer. They are so good. They are deadly though. So I had to drop about twenty pounds, so I went to the gym every day for two hours for the last two months to prepare for my movie. Everyone has been saying that I look better then I ever did. I feel healthy. I’m in a good place right now. I am at 130 right now, which is good for me. If I go below 130 I lose my tushy. That is the first thing that goes.”

Briana also revealed that she and her boyfreind from Pittsburgh that she was with the last two years are no longer together and that the breakup was hard but she’s happy now and that she’s again living with her little sister who spends her time as the manager of a pet store and is a big animal lover. So it seems Briana raised her well.

In May of 2008 AVN released pictures of Briana Banks and a few other Vivid girls at work on the set one of their movies. These new photos of Briana are below. As you can see in the images she is far from overweight as some are claiming and again according to weight and height charts she is exactly where she should be.