The news is out! I am now stateside and being represented by Mark Spiegler. Moving to the United States is going to change dramatically the course of my career and I am very excited to embark on this next chapter.
It appears that most of you are excited about seeing me shoot for other producers and directors but some others are a bit perplexed as to why I’ve made the decision. I’ll try to clear a few things up in this post. I also recommend that you read my interview with Dan Miller at AVN because I discuss some of my motivations in the article. But before I move on, let me just assure everyone that I still have a lot of plans for angelawhite.com and there is a lot of new and amazing content that is about to be released via my website and through my exclusive DVD lines. I am also planning something big for Angela 3. But I’ll be keeping a lid on that until the time is right… So onto the news:
Firstly, I don't need an agent. Against all of the odds and with the Pacific Ocean in my way, I built an award winning brand with a reputation for quality and excellence. At great expense, I established a European company and opened my own Merchant Bank accounts due to both restrictions in Australia and the limitations placed on Australian citizens attempting to access services from US billing providers. I created a website that chronicles my sexual journey which has been recognised as the XBIZ Adult Site of the Year in the Performer category 2 years running. I took a risk in creating a website whose logo and design have more in common with minimalism and high fashion than current trends in solo performer websites. I created content that resonated with audiences and critics alike and won AVN awards for both my boy/girl and my girl/girl scenes. I directed and produced my finest work in Angela 2; I pushed my sexual boundaries and explored my sexuality in ways that challenged my body and my identity. I grew as a person and a performer. I made such an impact that XBIZ crowned me the 2016 Foreign Female Performer of the Year. I negotiated an international distribution deal for my exclusive line of DVDs with Girlfriends Films, one of the leading adult film distributors in the world. I secured a deal with Interactive Life Forms that would make me the first Australia Fleshlight Girl. I did all of this without an agent. And I achieved all of this without filming for other companies.
I can understand why some fans might be a little perplexed as to why I would choose to change my formula now; especially given my powerful and rare position as a female director and performer who currently has complete control over her own brand and image. 4theHeart made some very astute observations particularly with reference to me being a “sexual explorer”. My motivation for entering the adult industry has always been to express and explore my sexuality, its boundaries and its depths. While I still have desires that I wish to explore in my own DVD lines and webscenes, I also have a yearning desire to broaden my sexual horizons. I feel that shooting for other producers and directors will open me up to new opportunities to learn about myself, to grow and to experience new pleasures that are perhaps outside of the scope of what I consider sexually interesting at this point in time. I have often experienced this when engaging with fans through webcamming. Fans have come to me with fantasies that I have never even considered, niches that I have never even heard of, and often I find myself turned on by something that was outside of my own sexual vocabulary. This is one of the major reasons I want to shoot with other directors. I want to be exposed to their sexual visions and I want to experience what it is like to indulge in their fantasies on film.
In addition to my personal sexual exploration, my involvement in adult entertainment is part of a larger ethnographic investigation into pornography that has informed my studies and my writing. You are probably all aware that I conducted qualitative research into female experiences in the Australian pornography industry while I was at The University of Melbourne. In the future (although exactly when is undetermined at this stage), I plan on returning to Australia to pursue my Ph.D. and I will more than likely focus my research on sexuality, the adult industry and pornography. The more experiences I have within this industry the broader my knowledge base will be.
There are also certain types of scenes that I have no interest in directing and producing for my website or my DVD lines but that I am very interested in participating in as an adult performer. One example is adult Feature films that require acting. I have come full circle on my views on scripted sex scenes. For my own productions, I have always focused on removing artifice to showcase “real sex”: authentic chemistry and genuine pleasure. For a long time, I was not interested in plot driven or narrative based pornography because I felt scripts hindered intimacy rather than encouraged it. It was actually through my qualitative research that my opinion changed on this subject. My research revealed that through becoming a “character” in pornography, performers are able to experience pleasures disinvested from desire and what they take to be their own sexual identity. One example from my study was of a heterosexual woman who did “gay-for-pay” scenes and ended up identifying as bisexual. The unexpected pleasures that she experienced through performing in pornography opened her up to a new sexual pleasures and ultimately a different sexual identification. I’m curious… what if I enter a scene not as “Angela White” but as someone else, say, Black Widow or Talia Al Ghul or some random nameless secretary? What different things might I feel in someone else’s shoes? These are things I’m interested in exploring personally as a performer but not something I have any interest in directing or producing (the location scouting and costuming alone sound like a nightmare).
These are some of my motivations for shooting for other companies, although this list is not extensive. I only want to associate with premium brands and Spiegler Girls is certainly that. There is nobody better suited to represent me than Mark Spiegler. I know from booking talent for AGW Entertainment that when you book a Spiegler Girl the talent turn up on time, well prepared, with a great attitude and put an amazing effort into each scene. These are things that I pride myself on. Of course, I could have done this independently (and Mark was generous enough to offer his assistance to me even if I did not take him on as my agent). But I know that being represented by Mark is the right decision. I’ve only just begun to work with Mark and I am already so happy with how he fights for me, offers me advice and respects my requests, shooting schedule and no lists (even if he may not necessarily agree with them). In addition to all of this, being a Spiegler Girl is an honour and another thing I can add to my list of accomplishments in the adult industry.
