Gay Star Interviews with Matt the Great!

Jeremy Feist is one of the newest stars on the scene in Montreal, Canada. Only having done his first shoot in March of 2009, Jeremy is on his way to becoming a big name in the world of gay adult entertainment. I’ve known Jeremy for almost a year and have personally witnessed his dreams become a reality. I had a conversation with Jeremy to discuss his new career move and the exciting things it has in store for him.

MATT: What made you decide you wanted a career in porn?

JEREMY: I don’t know. For the most part I didn’t want to end up as one of those cubicle jockeys who have to throw on a shirt and tie every day. And… its just something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I wanted to have some fun with my job. I didn’t want to end up going to my job every day and saying, “Oh fuck, I hate my life, I hate my life, I hate my life.” So now I’m doing something I actually I like doing and I can’t complain.

MATT: Tell me about your first shoot.

JEREMY: It was kind of uneventful. It was a solo after all. I mean, it was just me giggling myself for like an hour or so. You know, just me having fun with myself with guys taking pictures and videotaping it and shit like that.

MATT: Wasn’t that a little awkward for you?

JEREMY: A little bit, yeah. Its not like its something that I haven’t done before, but its the first time for money while someone videotaped it, so that was a little awkward.

MATT: And that was for www.squirtz.com, wasn’t it?

JEREMY: Yeah.

MATT: So then after Squirtz you went on to work with www.videoboys.com and do a scene with Jeremy Roddick. How did that go?

JEREMY: Actually pretty well, all things considered. Its not like I had a whole lot of practice in the area before, so I was like a relative newbie to it. It was a little weird going from that one guy that had a really, really tiny penis and was really bad in bed to getting railed by Jeremy Roddick. So it was kind of a big step up, you know. It would be like going from a nice walk to a bullet train or something like that.

MATT: You were dancing for a while at Adonis in Montreal. What was that experience like?

JEREMY: Actually it was a lot of fun. I mean, I was a little nervous at first. I’m actually a terrible dancer and not once did I ever go to a high school dance except for prom, but then again, that’s not really a dance. That’s more like people getting drunk and all that. I’m not much of a dancer at all so it was a little bit awkward because I wasn’t really sure what to do. I was like, “Ooookay, do I just wriggle around up here?” But people are pretty forgiving as long as you take off all your clothes and start shaking your dong in their face.

MATT: I have to admit. I was there, and I thought you did one hell of a job.

JEREMY: Oh, whatever. It was OK.

MATT: It just sucks what happened the next night after I was there. Why don’t you tell me how that went down.

JEREMY: I don’t know, there was a rumor going around for a little while that the place (Adonis) had gotten bought out by the guy that used to own the Stock bar (another strip club in Montreal), and the manager was like, “no no no, that’s just a rumor. It’s not true at all.” Then a couple of weeks later I go in and they call all of us up on stage, and their having a big party, and we’re all naked, and their like, “Oh, by the way. We got bought out by the guy from Stock and you’re all fired. You don’t have a job anymore. Get the fuck out.”

MATT: Your parents found out about your new career in an interesting way. Do you want to tell me about that?

JEREMY: Oh God, I’m still not entirely sure how that happened. Someone must have seen me at Adonis or something. My aunt found out. She works at this huge company in Montreal and about 10% of the people there are gay anyway. So she must have found out somehow and she pressured me so I told my parents and, I don’t know, at first Dad was like the really chill one about the whole thing and Mom went all apoplectic about is and turned into a super crazy bitch, like Glenn Close in that one movie where she boils a rabbit alive. Then after a while she sort of went with it, like, “OK, I don’t necessarily approve of what you’re doing, but you know what, I support you and love you, and all that.” I think Dad, at one point, went just a tiny bit completely and totally fuck-nuts. So, all in all, they’re pretty OK with it now.

MATT: I think things have been going a whole lot better recently.

JEREMY: More or less.

MATT: After your first couple of shoots with Squirtz and Video Boys you had a little lull and you were getting a little frustrated. Recently things have started to turn around. So tell me what you have been up to recently.

JEREMY: What have I been up to recently? Some how people have started to find out about me. I did another interview recently, actually two interviews. Then I got fan art from one guy which was pretty cool. I’ve never gotten fan art from anyone at all. That was pretty trippy. Then the guy from Pornducer invited me down to Toronto for a couple of shoots. That was kind of like the first time I’ve ever traveled for business. It was a lot of fun. I really loved that. I was upset when I had to come back to Montreal because I really liked it in Toronto. It was fun. I had like my own apartment. People were paying to put me up in a hotel and taking me out to dinner and shit like that. It was really cool.

MATT: You also had a chance to go to Goodhandy’s and meet Mandy Goodhandy. Tell me what happened there.

JEREMY: Actually it was a weird story. They (Pornducer) regularly introduces their models over at Goodhandy’s. Sometimes they do performances there and all that. So he took me over there the other night to introduce me to Mandy and Todd and all them. So he went to get a drink and as soon as he left Mandy just looked at me and said, “Oh look, a Pornducer model. Get up on stage.” I was like, oh fuck. So I get up on stage and the first thing she tells me was you have to be naked. So I took off all my clothes and got to spank this guy named Trevor. So that was kind of trippy.

MATT: Did you have wood there on stage.

JEREMY: I had a chubby, yeah.

MATT: Who are some of your favorite porn stars? Like your top 10 in no particular order.

JEREMY: Oh, fuck-socks. Shit. Pierre Fitch, because if I don’t say his name he will come to my house and beat me. Julien Cox, Jeremy Roddick, Matthew Rush, Ricky Sinz, Rocco Giovannoi, Erik Rhodes, Rob Romoni because he gave me my nickname “Bacon”, Wolf Hudson and Roman Heart.

MATT: You are a total bottom. What do you think the chances are of you ever topping?

JEREMY: I’m a shitty top actually. I have no rhythm. That’s what I get for having my totally sexy slacker genes is my complete inability to maintain rhythm.

MATT: So no chance at all?

JEREMY: Um… if the right model came along and they gave me a Scrooge McDuck money bag full of $100 bills, I’ll consider it.

MATT: You have two blogs, Notes on Bar Napkins and your newest on Pornstar in the Kitchen. Tell me about those two blogs.

JEREMY: Recently I celebrated the first anniversary of my first personal blog, Notes on Bar Napkins. So I’m pretty happy about that. I think I started that because I’m a fan of a blog call Pajiba. I’m not sure what Pajiba is really, but I’ve been a fan for a while and it inspired me to start my own blog. And Pornstar in the Kitchen is a new one. I’m not really sure what inspired me to do that, but its one of those things that you think is a great idea until you realize that someone else is doing it. I think as soon as I did it I realized that Johnny Hazard was doing pretty much the exact same thing, and I was like, oh fuck, now people are going to think I’m copying Johnny Hazard. I probably am, but I really love baking, so figured it would be something fun to do.

MATT: When did you realize that you love baking so much?

JEREMY: Well, the first thing I ever baked was a coffee cake for my dad’s birthday. I think he was turning 39 or something. I kind of use baking as a therapy, like a way of taking my mind off of things and kind of like get my head straight. Then it became something I was good at and something I could do for fun.

MATT: What are some upcoming events or shoots that you have scheduled?

JEREMY: Well, I’m not going to go too far into details because I don’t want to jinx myself, but I know right now Goodhandy’s has booked me for August 12 in Toronto, so I’m really excited about that. I got into contact with the guys at Dixter, so they’re thinking about shooting me too, and if I play my cards right I may be doing a test-shoot for You Love Jack. So, knock on wood for that one.

MATT: What is the most embarrassing thing to happen to you while you were either dancing or on a shoot?

JEREMY: You enjoy seeing me suffer don’t you? You miserable bastard.

MATT: Yes, yes I do. You’ve been shot in the eye twice with cum.

JEREMY: On the shoot in Toronto we were doing the whole facial thing and he tried to shoot one over my eye my eye so I would have like a semen monocle thing. Actually Jeremy Roddick did the same thing, so I think that was the second time I was walking around with a semen eye patch.

MATT: Is that the most embarrassing thing to happen to you?

JEREMY: Oh, not by a long shot. I think on my first day at Adonis, and I had bought new shoes because I’m a model and I have to buy things to make myself feel better as a human being. And it was my first time getting up on stage for my audition, and my shoe managed to catch the very edge of the stage when I was getting up and I fell face first onto the stage. So that was fun.

MATT: Hahahaha… sorry, I just got a mental picture of that.

JEREMY: Oh, fuck off. I will destroy you in the face.

MATT: A year ago when I first met you, you were incredibly shy. I remember the first time I talked to you on the phone, you didn’t want to talk. You preferred to chat online. You have come a very long way from there. What do you think the turning point was?

JEREMY: I don’t know. I still retain some of that shyness. I’m not going to say I’m a huge social person, but I’m not shy about it now. I don’t know. I don’t see the whole being naked thing as a huge deal. It used to be that I couldn’t even take a shower naked. As soon as I was done I would wrap myself in a towel because I didn’t want to see myself in the mirror. I guess, somewhere down the line I figured it was no big deal.

MATT: Now, you’re about to move into your first apartment, so tell me about that. What plans do you have for that? And don’t be afraid to mention who found the apartment.

JEREMY: Yes, you found my apartment, and I love you for that and I thank you for that and all that shit. Right now as long as I have a TV and WI-FI and some place to sleep and a kitchen I’ll be fine for now. But eventually I would like to be in a place where I have TV’s in every room and a toilet made of solid gold and shit like that.

MATT: And your own stripper pole in the living room?

JEREMY: I kind of want one of those. Yeah, I really do. Oh God I miss it. I really do. I’m putting it on my list of shit I need to buy. It’s literally on my list right under my Scrooge McDuck money pool.

MATT: What are your ultimate plans for your career?

JEREMY: Oh, fuck, I don’t know. I’m still getting into the biz right now, so would like to still like to be doing this. I would like for people to not be hating me in five years. But eventually, I would like to start writing. I guess I could do both at the same time. Its a possibility.

MATT: Well, you’re a talented writer. Anyone who reads your blogs can tell that. As someone who is fresh into your career, is there anything that you have experienced that you were not ready for?

JEREMY: No. For the most part a lot of it has been winging it really. I guess a lot of people think I have my shit together, but really I’m a total mess just like everyone else. I’m not about to say I’m the smartest person in the room and I’m completely 100% sure of myself. I’m really not, but whatever, what’s the worst that could happen at this point.

MATT: For others who are in your same situation just starting out, or thinking about starting out, what advice would you give them?

JEREMY: Set your expectations low. I mean, you’ll probably find some work, but don’t think that in your first year you’ll be eating caviar and you’ll be invited to banquets and you’ll be wearing top hats and canes and monocles. You’ll have to work your way up.

MATT: Jeremy, thanks for the interview. I know you’ll be a big success.

JEREMY: Thanks Matt. I’ll talk to you later.