Evan Stone: AVN’s Interview with 2011 Male Performer of the Year
For Evan Stone, good things came in threes at this year’s AVN Awards. Not only did the veteran porn star enter the AVN Hall of Fame; he also earned two awards—for Male Performer of the Year and Best Supporting Actor.
And three also marks the number of times Stone has been named Male Performer of the Year. That lets him into an exclusive group with two other members: Manuel Ferrara (2005, 2006, 2010) and Lexington Steele (2000, 2002, 2003). Stone’s previous wins were in 2001 and 2008, the latter of which garnered him a Rolex. (“I already got my retirement watch early in the game,” he jokes.)
Porn stars are sometimes described as sexual athletes, and one can point to Stone as a paragon of that type. Seeing him at an adult industry party is like watching the football captain at the homecoming dance. Guys and girls alike want to hang with him, to bask in the warmth of his sheer energy. Aside from that, there’s also his easy charm and down-to-earth, working-guy appeal. Because truly, Stone knows what it means to work.
“I had every job you could imagine,” Stone says, who grew up in Dallas as the adopted son of a fireman who also ran a signmaking business. His most lucrative position was doing phone collections, he says—the last “real job” he had before a 10-year stint as a male stripper and exotic dancer.
“But before that,” Stone recollects, “I worked at a slaughterhouse, I worked on the kill floor, I worked fork lifts for Pepsi-Cola … gas station attendant, auto mechanic. Yeah, I was an auto mechanic, too; that job sucked. Out there in the Texas heat, under a car, smashing your hands all up.”
His favorite gig, “other than porno,” was also in Texas: “I worked at Medieval Times when I was in Dallas. Riding Andalusian stallions. … It’s just the best job ever.”
Now he’s doing something he seems to enjoy so much it almost can’t be called work. But he certainly doesn’t slack off. Stone was in so many big features this year, he was almost guaranteed to celebrate a win sometime during the evening. He completely embraced the role of the Riddler in Axel Braun’s Batman XXX, for which he won Best Supporting Actor, but he was also seen in Hustler’s This Ain’t Avatar, which won for Best 3D Release, and Big Lebowski: A XXX Parody, which earned Tom Byron a Best Actor nod. (“That was such a great movie … I was watching them work—it was cool, it was just like watching television. Because everyone was just nailing their part.”) And he was seen in several other nominated movies, including A-Team: A XXX Parody, Alice, Devil in Miss Jones: The Resurrection and Rawhide II: Dirty Deeds. (“That was the only movie I ever begged to be in,” said Stone, who was in the first Rawhide.)
After 11 years in the business, there’s little that Stone doesn’t know about shooting porn. He sat down with AVN to share a little of that accumulated knowledge.
Out of a really big year, what movie did you enjoy making the most?
Wow, every day’s so much fun, I really can’t say the most fun. Every day is an adventure and fun—they would all have to be the best one. … I don’t care if it’s one scene, I’m going to try to make it the best I can make it. I’ll do everything in my power to help the whole movie look good, not just my part.
What’s the most strenuous thing you did?
I would have to say this movie we did with Axel [Braun]: This Ain’t Ghostbusters [which wrapped in early 2011]. A lot of technical stuff, a lot of green screen, and we’re shooting in 3D. And 3D, it really takes three times as long. … But I do think it’s the new generation of what’s going to come out—porn in 3D.
“I believe the video game market will get 3D into the homes before porno does. But everybody knows these kids, who are 16, 17, are going to be 18 soon and be able to get porn on their televisions, and that will be the market that we will have soon.