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ZAK SPEARS RETURNS INTERVIEW

THE RETURN OF THE SEX BEAST (2000) - Interview conducted by Benjamin Scuglia - from Unzipped Magazine November 2000 edition

Full-throttle woofer Zak Spears has been missing in action for five years.  Now he's back.  And bigger than ever...

When I rap on Zak Spear's front door, my knocks are answered by a series of frantic barks - there's a dog in there somewhere that doesn't appreciate visitors.  A few seconds later, the door flies open and Zak stands before me, grinning and motioning me inside, holding a cell phone to one ear.  "I'm just hanging up now," he says.  The barking dog, a tan chow with a suspicious glint in her eye, pins me into a corner.  Zak walks into the foyer and scolds the chow, who obediently trots over to Zak's side and sits.  "Sorry about that," he apologizes.  "She's very protective of me."  Before I can reply, Zak crosses the foyer and wraps his arms around me in a bearhug so tight that I think I hear several ribs crack.  Then he grabs my face and kisses me forcefully.  For a few seconds, I forget that I'm here to interview him.

He's a few days away from shooting his first film in half a decade.  He also hasn't given an interview in five years, and it shows in a slight case of nerves.  At that moment, a second chow, gray and cheerful, trots into the foyer and immediately begins to lick my hand.  I scratch its ears, and its tail wags furiously.  Zak murmurs baby talk to the gray chow and ushers me into the living room.  The dogs are under our feet, and the tan chow plants herself inches from my knee, watching suspiciously as I set up the tape recorder and arrange my notes.  "It's a good thing I have that one to protect me," he chuckles, "because this puppy is useless," and again he begins talking to the gray chow in baby-speak, causing it to wriggle with sheer happiness.  After a few seconds, Zak looks up at me and laughs.  "I really love my dogs," he states glowingly.  "They're my kids."

There really is no easy segue from talking about how much someone loves their dogs into why they decided to return to making gay porn films, so I dive right into the subject at hand.

Well, Zak Spears is back.

[Laughing heartily]  Yes, he is.

You were pretty busy back in the early '90s, roughly 1993 to 1995.

Yeah, two years is about right.  And I think I made about 35 films.  I was also in one of Catalina's Best of... series.  I call it the Worst of.  The scenes they picked are so nasty.  That movie is horrendous.  Everything Catalina had be doing was bottoming.  And I will say this right now - I'm fifty-fifty.  I love to fuck.  I love getting fucked.  But you know what?  The stuff I did for Catalina - and I loved the company, I loved the people there - I found it very sugar-coated.  That's the best word for it.

How much say were you given with what you could do?

Back then, none.  Now, it's been like a godsend.  Odyssey asked me who I wanted to work with, and I got to tell them, "I want this guy; I definitely don't want that guy."  So it's been a really weird experience, a great experience.  I got my two favorite directors.  I've got all these co-stars that I've seen in the last couple of years whom I really wanted to work with on this film.  I've been given the opportunity to do what I want.

Can you give us a preview of what we can expect in the film?

Let's see, Jackson Price is bottoming.  He's one of the new boys Chi Chi wanted to squeeze in there, which I don't have a problem with at all.  Nino Bacci will bottom and be in an oral scene.  The last scene is going to be the big double-fuck scene, and, well, to be honest with you, I've never been double-fucked.

I don't expect to hear Zak Spears say something like that.

In my private life, I don't go to the bars.  I don't do the drugs, and I'm not into the circuit parties and all that stuff.  I'm not saying that everyone who goes to circuit parties does drugs, but 90 percent of them, their eyes are like saucers.  That's not my scene.

Your persona as a porn star would seem to contradict that.

I'm not promiscuous.  I don't go to bars, so it's very, very hard for me to meet people.  And the people I do meet are either intimidated by me, or they're afraid to talk to me.  But I can turn that around on myself.  When I'm interested in someone, I turn stupid.  It's like, I can get out, "Hi, my name is --" and then I start to babble.  I don't know what it is!  It's partially my fault.  I don't try hard enough.  But then, when you try too hard, you sound like a schmuck.  If you don't try hard enough, then it's like you're aloof or stuck-up.  What are you gonna do?

Do you find yourself trying to be whoever guys think "Zak Spears" is?

[Flatly] No.  Zak Spears is me, and I'm Zak Spears.  That character or persona is integrated into my private life.  We're one and the same.  I like normal missionary sex.  But I also like really nasty, sweaty, snarling, biting sex as well.  You know what I mean?  When I find a mate, I hope to have it all:  the tender kissing, romance, flowers, cuddling - I love cuddling.  And kissing is one of my favorite things to do.  But I also want to have hot, sweaty, go-take-a-shower-afterwards kind of sex.  Manly, hard-core sex.  Come dripping from your chin, all that shit. [Laughs]

What kind of men do you go for?

I like men.  Period.  One thing I cannot stand are these guys who say, "Oh, I'm only a top.  I'm only a bottom."  Because what you're saying is you're a lazy fuck.  [Laughs]  You're not interested in pleasing your mate.  What are you people doing with your lives?  Expand your horizons a little!

Were you aware of the Zak Spears cult of fans on the Internet?

I had absolutely no idea.

But you have a website now?

The wave of the future, my friend.

Was there ever a notion in your head while growing up that this might be the career for you?

Ever since I was a kid, I've been buying porn magazines and watching movies, admiring guys like Chad Douglas, Race Jensen - I've always loved Race Jensen.  God, what a face, cock, ass - god, he was beautiful.  Chris Williams, Jim Pulver, Tom Brock, Jeff Stryker...the whole gang.  Guys from the Sterling era - I started fantasizing and wanting to emulate those guys.  Those guys were everything I wanted to be.  I still consider myself to be very average.  At times I'll laugh to myself.  I'll be on a set somewhere, and I'll just burst out laughing.  People probably look at me like I'm strange.  But it just dawns on me:  here I am doing what I used to fantasize about as a kid.

You had a comfortable life in retirement.  What led to your making a comeback now?

I've recently had waht you would call an awakening.  Call it a cliché if you want, but I've become a lot more accepting of myself as a person, and of the fact that there is a lot more range to me as a person.  I can encompass all of this [sweeping his arm wide, indicating my notes and tape recorder] into my life.  I can handle it all now much better than before.

I heard some rumors about why you left the first time.

Yeah, I'm sure you did.

The big rumor was that Chi Chi banished you because she couldn't have you.

Oh, that's such bullshit.  Total crap.  She's directing the new movie with Jim Steel!  That's the kind of crap I've been talking about.  People make up the weirdest shit.

From what you've been saying, it seems like you'll be getting a real sexual workout in the new film.  That's the old Zak Spears we know and love.

God, I love to fuck.  I love to fuck.  I love getting fucked.  I'll be on the set and get so horny, I just want to grab something, anything I can, and stick it in my ass.

So is this film a one-shot deal?

The Odyssey film is a two-parter.  But I'm not coming back to flood the market.  I promised the guys at Odyssey I wouldn't do that.  I'm not interested in doing that.  There's enough bad porn out there already.  I want my films to be good.  At this point in my life, it has to be worth it.  I'm at a point where I want to really enjoy the process and have a good time.

So it would seem the proposed title of your new film - A Journey Back - is appropriate in more ways that one.

[Grins widely]  Odyssey has given me a very good deal, and I know the new film is going to be of high quality.  The fans are in for a treat.  I like my life right now.  I have no complaints.  It's a good place to be.

Visit Zak on his website at:  http://zakspears.iamproud.com.  His new video comes out this December (2000).