Candida Royalle: Old School Porn Legend Opens Up for Rialto Report Podcast

April 24, 2014
MCBEARDO

Brooklyn's own Candida Royalle has been a mainstay of cinematic sex for four complete decades—first as on-screen XXX muse, then as a behind-the-scenes mastermind creating Femme Productions, the first studio to make and market erotic films specifically for a female audience.

And you can hear all about Candida's journey on Ashley West's amazing, indispensible podcast dedicated to the heyday of theatrically released hardcore porn movies, The Rialto Report.

Click here to listen to the Candida Royalle interview.

West sums up the episode thusly:

Candida Royalle joins The Rialto Report to talk about her life and influential career as a pioneer in the adult film industry.

With tales of Brooklyn beginnings, San Francisco in the 70s, the Cockettes, 8mm loops, John Holmes, Bob Chinn, John Leslie, New York in the 80s, Chuck Vincent, Larry Revene, Femme Productions, learning how to skateboard for Pizza Girls…. and much more.

As she looks back on her life so far, what does she feel about the unconventional path she's taken, the choices she's made, and her role in shaping the adult film industry?

For this pre-bearded Brooklyn boy in the early-to-mid 1980s, Candida served as one of the most captivating catalysts to usher me A) into puberty and B) along afterward into this ongoing career of carnal appreciation.

Sumptuously full-hipped with luscious lips, long brown hair, an up-turned nose and deliciously puffed-out wonder nipples, Candida bewitched and inspired me with her no-holes-barred sexual adventuring and an attitudinal screen presence that I could recognize and relate to as radiating from the very streets where I was biking home to ogle her in whatever nudie mag I had just shoplifted.

Ms. Royalle's spread in a spider-web body suit will never not prompt me to spray webs of my own.

With my one free hand, I salute your sexiness, Candida Royalle, along with your foxy foresight and savvy filmmaking skills in expanding the boundaries of adult entertainment. Long may you Royalle-ly reign.