For the first time since I started shooting for Real Couples I have to admit defeat. There was no saving the shoot that was meant to happen on Sunday 7th August.
No option was available to me to even salvage the day with a solo shoot or a homemade shoot. We came so close but yet it was not meant to be….
The day started out promising enough. Clear blue skies and sunny as I drove down to Brighton, stopping off on the way for a Burger King at the services on the M23. It was here that I thought I would call the couple (who shall remain nameless) as I didn’t receive a response to my earlier message when I had set off.
Whilst I was driving I received a call from the boyfriend that they had a bit of a domestic which was an undertstatement given that it followed that he was sitting on the doorstep with his clothes in a bag after she had thrown him out last night.
I was only 10 minutes away so I decided to go the rest of the way and see where this was going. I arrived to be met by the girlfriend naked except for a towel to hide her modestyat the door. Shes no stranger to me as she has featured on the site before with a previous partner some years before. She had just got out of the shower and she told me what was going on and that the boyfriend was on his way over and when he arrived there was a tension in the air between them as I caught her flashing him dirty looks.
I made it clear that I noticed what was going on but didnt rule out the shoot actually happening because I have been in similar siutations in the past where it looked like all hope was lost and it ended up being a better than expected shoot. It also helped that the pair were in the adult industry as this is where they first met and have been together for about a year already so I was banking on them being professional. In other words, to just get on with it and get paid. I could still say this was real because of it but it seems that when it comes to human emotions, money doesnt mean a thing where professionalism is concerned and I can understand and respect that.
We began the photoshoot and things looked a bit better as they warmed towards each other sexually but it was the snide comments that had me commenting to the girlfriend that she was making things difficult. Now before the ladies out there think this is some male solidarity thing, bear in mind that if this was coming from the bloke I would’ve said the same thing to him as well.
In fact, given what I know about the guy from my short time there, it seems he was a good guy who didnt need to put up with the hositlity he was enduring and was only doing so because I believed he genuinely loves her but it seems the sticking point between them is she wants him to give up the shagging other women for porn movies but the dilemma for him was they met in the porn business and nothing pays as much at a time where it is diffuclt to get work. Still, he was prepared to give up for awhile but things didnt work out and just got worse.
We made it through the picture session and was at the point we were ready to start the video and thats when things took a nose dive.
They started off well enough and spent a considerable time just kissing and speaking in hushed tones which I thought was ok given the circumstances and it was when he went down on her it seemed she was getting into it but kept closing her legs, and while filming I gently moved her legs aside still filming so I could see what the boyfriend was doing but after awhile I detected the mood was getting a bit weird and thought I had better stop touching her leg and moved back a bit when she suddenly said: “I cant do this!” then looked like she was about to burst into tears!
It was as good as game over at this point but while I was trying to be sensitive to the situation I had also travelled from North London to Brighton expecting to get a shoot and after awhile I tried to salvage the situation by asking to film it for my documentary and even then the girlfriend was not interested, which, again I found understandable.
We stuck around for a bit as things got more emotional when she told her boyfriend to leave and demonstrated it by packing his bags and throwing him a punch in the face! At this point I thought it was wise to leave because I didnt know how much tolerance her fella would have before he started meting the same back and I dont think it wouldve been good to be caught in the middle of that.
I didnt leave empty handed but I dont have paperwork to use the material so I am hoping if things change between them that the option is still there to continue the shoot but here we are a week later and its looking very unlikely
Why did this have to happen on my watch? This is the first time I have witnessed a break up on the day of a shoot. Thankfully I’m informed these outbursts were a weekly occurence so I suspect there are some issues there that doing a video for a website cannot fix.
I guess this is what is known as an occupational hazard
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