Magdalene St. Michaels Talks with Captain Jack
Magdalene is a veteran adult performer who got into the industry at a later date in life. Way later. She joined the industry at 49 and is still performing! And, believe me, she still looks great! Get to know this veteran of the blue screen!
Captain Jack: You entered the industry in 2007. Tell me about Magdalene before that. What led you to this life in porn?.
Magdalene St. Michaels: I was born on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. I was born to British parents; my dad was stationed there in the British Royal Marines. I was born in 1957. We were there for 6 months and then went back to England. We traveled a bit because he was in the Marines and then he became a Navy Seal. We went back to England when I was around 11. It was a small town and the nearest big town was Plymouth. I worked there for about 5 years after school then went to London for a couple of years. I ended up moving to Los Angeles because my mother went on a vacation and she met somebody in New York. So she moved to LA and that’s how I came here. I was 23 at the time. While I was growing up, I was involved in amateur dramatics and the theatre, so singing dancing, acting from about 12-19. When I came here, I did many, many types of jobs. One of the major things I did around 1983, I joined the Screen Actors Guild and at the same time, I was in a relationship with an actor. I was doing a lot of extra work on movies and television. A good 5 years, steady. Then everything kind of changed. I joined AFTRA as well, one was for TV, one was for movies. Eventually, they merged and I still pay my dues to this day. I ended up having small roles in 3 or 4 movies. I also worked in stores, a lot of temp work, I worked in a clothing store and ended up working for a social club. I got married in 1995 and went away from that. I have Fiber Milaga and it affected my sleep and my energy levels. My husband was traveling for work a lot.
CJ: Why did you decide to get into the adult industry?
Magdalene: My husband is involved in music and he was doing something in Vegas around the New Year. We had gone to Vegas around 2005 and my niece was visiting from England. At that time, the Adult Expo was the first week of January. I noticed that everybody at that time knew Ron Jeremy. I never really watched porn at all and I saw him with a couple of young girls. We hailed a cab and he told us they have the Expo there every year. So in 2006, we ended up buying tickets for the 2007 Expo. We bought these 3-day tickets. Vegas has no clocks and we are both night owls. We went to the Venetian with the intention of going to the show. It ran 9-5 or something and it was the last day so we decided to go. We had like an hour and, at the time, the Expo was really, really big. My husband suggested we start at the back because they start loading stuff from the back. He had spotted the sign for Girlfriends Films and we started there. Dan O’Connell had a tiny booth and he had been doing movies for 5 years. We walked over and I was wearing a really nice corset top with jeans and boots and, as he’s packing up his stuff, he looked up with a big grin on his face and said, ‘Hi! Are you a model?’ I didn’t quite know what that term meant except in mainstream and I told him I did a little bit when I was younger. He said, ‘Well, I’ve been looking for this MILF for the last 3 days!’ He explained what he did and asked if I had ever been with a woman. I had actually been with 3 different women. I told him I had studied acting and told him my background and we talked about how I liked kissing a lot. He told me that’s what they do with a lot of kissing and touching. He asked me if that would be something I’d be interested in and I told him, ‘Yes!’ Here I was, 49-years old and I filled out my paperwork and I fudged my age because I didn’t want to put down ‘49’. (laughs) When we went back to LA, we met for sushi and a couple days later, he called me and told me that he wrote a movie for me, I Like To Kiss. He gave me a choice of one of two women. One of them happened to be Samantha Ryan and the other was Lena Nichole. Samantha wasn’t available so we went with Lena. He always told me that it was his favorite movie. I shot it in March of 2007. Usually, I’m nervous in front of a large group of people but I found it so easy to take my clothes off and make love to someone. It was so natural to me!
What was interesting was all these different changes were going on in my life. Prior to when Dan discovered me, I was a blonde before going back to being a redhead, and I had a hysterectomy in 2005 so I put on a little bit of weight. I had some surgery and got my boobs redone. I was also watching Cinemax and it was so bad. The kissing was bad, the acting was bad and I remember saying to him, ‘God this sucks! It’s too bad I didn’t get into porn because I’d be really good at it!’ I believe everything happens for a reason and karma and all that stuff and all these changes I was making led up to that moment in January. I walked away from the convention reborn!
I worked for only Dan for about a year and a half doing girl/girl. Today, that’s still my passion. 75% of my work has been girl/girl. I have fans all over the world and it’s still growing. I’ve had women say that they didn’t realize they loved women until they saw my work. Once I started doing girl/girl, I had been married for a while, and I asked my husband what he thought about me doing boy/girl. He said he thought I should do it because if I want my name to go out, you’re going to have to do that. I’d rather not have done the gonzo stuff but I really got into it because I wanted to bring my acting ability into it. Also my sensuality, my eroticism…so that’s why I tried to stick to that aesthetic, to make it an art form for me. It wasn’t always possible so I did about a dozen gonzo scenes.
CJ: How did you come up with your stage name?
Magdalene: I am not a religious person. I am not a person for organized religion. But I have always been drawn to Mary Magdalene. And many, many documentaries over the years have come to shed light on who she really was. The male patriarchy at the time 2000 years ago buried her from history and overlooked her and had nothing to do with what they said in the Bible, which I have never read. Too much hatred in the world is formed from organized religion. If there was no religion in the world, there wouldn’t be any prejudice because nobody would know any difference. Mary Magdalene, when it came to a stage name, that was the first thing I thought of. I didn’t care what the majority of people think. Then, Dan O’Connell was the one who said I needed a last name. Then, right up the coast from where I grew up in England, the very last county. There’s a little island off the coast and it’s called St. Michaels Mount and it’s beautiful. So that’s how I chose my stage name! What’s interesting is, when the tide goes in, you can only reach it by rowboat. But when the tide goes out, there’s a path to it that you can walk on.
CJ: You were in a major release last year, Confessions of A Sinful Nun 2 by Sweetheart Video.
Magdalene: What happened is that a few of my fans followed me and also Nina Hartley. They were tweeting to companies about having us both in a scene together. I thought that nobody would cast 2 60-year olds in the same scene. But then I received a text from Ricky Greenwood who shoots for Mile High, and he told me he was doing a sequel to Confessions of A Sinful Nun. He said he had a push to get a scene between myself and Nina. He said he had scene my work and I would make a good Mother Superior but Nina already had that role. So he put me in charge of another convent. He explained the movie and how our characters are. He sent me the script and the movie got delayed but he put me in another of his films, A Woman’s Promise. I was running a conversion therapy place when I try to turn gay girls straight. I had a lot of dialogue in that one and that was my first experience with Ricky. Around the same time, Nica Noelle had contacted me asking me to do her first picture for Lust Cinema from Barcelona Spain because they were trying to expand into the American market. It was called The Widow and I play a professor. My husband had fallen sick and I take care of him until I lose him. After he died, I went back to teaching and had a relationship with a student. That was my second best role with the Confessions role being my best. At the end of the movie, Nina is supposed to die in my arms and I’m supposed to see the devil visually behind her head and just scream! Ricky changed it at the last minute because it was kind of cheesy. We did the scene and she died in my arms and I said, ‘I love you’ and then I started crying. It wasn’t something I had planned and it surprised me that I did it on the spot. I was extremely happy that I was nominated for Best Actress by AVN.
CJ: And how can the fans follow you on social media?
Magdalen: On Twitter, I’m @MagdaleneXXX. Instagram is @magdalene_st.michaels. And Facebook, which I haven’t been on in ages, just search for Magdalene St. Michaels. And I have a VOD site, MagdaleneVOD.com which links to Hot Movies.
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