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INTERVIEW | |By Rob Perez
WHO’S WHO
A Touch of Class
Magdalene St. Michaels epitomizes ageless elegance
Part three has Syren De Mer and Blair Summers, and there’s going to be another older/
younger, then we’re going to make a DVD out of it. So that’s what I’m focusing on right
now.”
Only parts 1 and 2 are available on Hotmovies.com as of this writing, which are all
produced by Michaels’ own imprint, Magdalene Films. For Michaels’ second directorial effort
she plans to produce and direct an all-MILF lesbian film with a tentative title Magdalene Loves
MILFs. “Nobody seems to be doing older women/older women. I’ve had people tweet me
saying, ‘You should work with Syren De Mer.’ This is just a first step. That’s what I’m doing.
I’m happy to be doing that. It’s great to direct and come up with the scenarios and write and
be creative that way.”
“I loved working with her,” said co-star Natasha Starr. “She was so professional. It is a
great scene; we clicked right away and had great chemistry together. I’m looking forward to
working with her again.”
Darling described her experience being helmed by Michaels as “watching an artist at
work. She doesn’t spare passion when it comes to capturing the story she wants to tell. She
knows nuances and details about her characters inside and out and when she performs, it’s
easy to get lost in the experience. She’s dedicated, professional, and creatively complex. It’s
inspiring.”
For Michaels, she established herself long ago as the go-to MILF whenever the scene
calls for an older performer who can not only perform sexually but deliver a heavy dramatic
acting performance. And she’s certainly become that go-to performer that O’Connell saw in
her when he recruited Michaels. “I love working with Maggie because she has great acting
skills and I can play her in a variety of parts. She is one of the few performers to get her own
Girlfriends Films series, Imperfect Angels, which is perhaps our best series ever in regard to
acting and story line. We always know we’re going to get a terrific scene out of her. Her first
film for Girlfriends Films, I Like to Kiss, which has just three actresses in it, still remains my
very favorite GFF movie of all time.”
One project very dear to Michaels’ heart is her performance in the Nica Noelle-directed film
My TS Student for Noelle’s imprint TranSensual. It’s a taboo Michaels hopes to dismantle—
taking away the stigma of mainstream performers working with TS performers. “For me it
was important because ... from what I have heard there’s not too many women willing to
do TS scenes. It was not only important for me to experience that as a person but it was
important for me to get that out there to the world. People get stigmatized and it’s not a big
deal to me, someone’s sexuality. By me doing this I’m hoping I’ll get other performers to do
it.”
“I had a great time shooting with Magdalene,” says Michaels’ co-star in My TS Student,
Chelsea Poe. “Our scene was a girl/girl scene where the things we did in the scene would
be something you would see in any girl/girl film. I am thankful that Nica wanted to show
how I have lesbian sex which is [rarely] shown in mainstream trans porn, and really fits the
trans-positive vibe of the series. It was really great for me as a new performer to work with
someone who has a history of shooting girl/girl porn and I think it is by far my most sensual
scene I was ever involved in.”
“Magdalene did a brilliant job in this movie and it was an honor to shoot her first TS
scene,” says Noelle. “It was clearly a very emotional moment for her to finally realize her
dream to shoot with a TS woman and her scene with Chelsea Poe is really something special.”
“When I look at someone, I don’t see gender,” continues Michaels. “I think it needs to be
accepted more and so I’m hoping by me doing it as a performer and as an individual person,
and even with this interview, it will get others to think about it in another light. I see past the
physicality of someone. I see their energy and their essence and their being and their soul as
who they are as a person. People need to be who they are and I’m hoping by me doing it, it
will have some impact.”
Wherever her career takes her to next Magdalene will undoubtedly have an impact. Perhaps
the next stage of Magdalene’s career will have her opening doors for GILFs, a label which
Magdalene has no problem wearing. “I can see that,” says Michaels. “Yes, realistically I would
be a GILF. When . . . I see myself in the mirror I go, ‘God, I’m going to be 60 in two years.’ I
[can’t] fathom that. I’ve always said this about myself ... ‘I’m not going to be a gray-haired,
little old lady.’ To me the soul is ageless. I’m a child, I’m youthful and crazy sometimes ... and
I have the wisdom and the old soul. So I don’t see myself as an old person.”
likely wouldn’t have been considered for adult work. That is until
Girlfriends Films founder Dan O’Connell “discovered” Magdalene
In porn’s not too distant past, a woman Magdalene St. Michaels’ age
as he was packing up his booth during the final moments of
the 2007 Adult Entertainment Expo. “I was … lamenting that I
hadn’t met the much-needed MILF I’d hoped to find at the show,”
O’Connell recalls. Then, all of a sudden, I looked up and there she
was! She looked like the perfect sexy MILF and I soon saw that she was
a class act, much like Kay Parker. Maggie is full of energy, is a lot of fun
to be around, is reliable, is a great performer, an accomplished actress,
and loves women. It takes all that to be a great porn star.”
older women/older women.
”Nobody seems to be doing
—Magdalene St. Michaels
That great porn star would then go on to become one of the
industry’s most reliable, hardest working performers—as well as one of
the oldest active—whose mainstream acting background would come
in handy when it came to heavy dramatic acting roles in features such
as My Girlfriend’s Mother 1 and 2 for Sweet Sinner, and Girl Candy Films’
Mother Superior 1 and 3. Now the 58-year-old Michaels is prepared for
the next stage of her career—directing—and she’s picked a topic that’s
ripe for plenty of sexual encounters.
“What I’m doing right now is I’m starting to shoot my own movies,”
says Michaels. She is releasing her first film—Stranded, in which each
scene is related to sexual situations with an aviation theme—one scene
at a time through Hotmovies.com via her MagdaleneVOD.com site. “I
did a scene with Ela Darling, then I did Stranded 2 with Natasha Starr.
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