I talked with Danny Vegas (formerly Daniel Lenko), title character of Playboy’s The Boy Nexxt Door (the lack of three Xs should tip you off that its Playboy and he’s Canadian), who told me about delivering pizza and making porn in his parents’ basement in his native Edmonton, Alberta.
“I had no girls and no guys,” he said. “I’d go to bars to recruit and the guys would be all for it until they heard they’d be seen by other people.”
Vegas trudges through the snow to deliver pizza in his Flock of Seagulls haircut, then returns home to discover his mother has moved his Lord of Asses DVD while tidying up.
Vegas was 20 when Playboy began filming him two years ago. The Boy Nexxt Door looks staged even by reality show standards, but it still has elements you wouldn’t find elsewhere, like unabashed Canadian accents, real snow, and Vegas himself, whose wholesome Tim Burton look identifies him as the rebel in his neighborhood.
We also meet his school film teacher, who encourages Vegas’ nascent porn career. His teacher would probably be out of a job south of the border, but no one seems to blink when he talks about his use of porn to “short-stroke myself to ecstasy” or, after declining Vegas’ offer to stunt-cock in one of his movies, says “the old grey mare ain’t what he used to be.” Silly Canadians have different genders for horses.
“I started watching porn when I was 12,” Vegas said. “The way my family is, there was no taboo, though now they draw a distinction between directing and performing.”
Vegas’ parents seem less long-suffering and more bemused than the parents of Jackass‘ Bam Margera, but the show still plays up their confusion and, according to Vegas, “the neighbors still don’t know.” (Vegas and I talked on the phone, so he probably said “neighbours.”)
The series plays on Friday nights on Playboy TV, and culminates with Vegas’ trip to last year’s AVN show. He says that he will soon get word if there is to be a season 2.
Vegas finally did get local performer Zaira to film a scene after several failed attempts to get local bar girls to perform.
“Maybe I went about it the wrong way,” he said. “I’d say to girls, ‘Well, you’re going to go home and fuck somebody at the end of the night anyway; you might as well get paid for it.'”
Previously: Scenes from the class struggle in Playboy’s Penthouse
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