A conversation with Dylan Vox

A Conversation with Dylan Vox
by Drew Wilson

Dylan Vox has been an ice skater, a law school student, a stripper, an award-winning pornstar, and now, a successful (and very busy) mainstream TV and movie actor.

I had a chance to catch up with Dylan recently to discuss his time living in Denver, his upcoming movies, and the time we ate birthday cake out of each other's underwear.

It was a lot classier than it sounds.

Dylan Vox before/after a nap.

Drew: Hey buddy, you sound tired.
Dylan: I am tired. I just finished filming a new movie and it was lots of long days and lots of prosthetics. I need a nap.

Do you want to take a nap and I can call you back later?
No, a nap wouldn't be the same without  you in bed with me.

Oh, you. So tell me about the new movie. It's called 'Brides of Sodom'. It's directed by Creep Creepersin and he's brilliant. He does a lot of B-type horror movies and it's been great. He's a cult favorite and kind of a big deal. I play the vampire king, shockingly.

You're like the go-to guy for vampire kings, aren't you?
Yeah, I don't know how that happened but I like it.

Vampire King Dylan.

Sweet. The last movie I knew about you being in was 'Homewrecker'.
Completely different from 'Brides of Sodom'.

Well, it must be nice to be able to play a variety of roles. Or are you a vampire king in 'Homewrecker'?
'Homewrecker' was a very different kind of movie. So much fun. It's just dumb, campy fun.

Pop it in the DVD player. Have some drinks. Sit back and enjoy the camp.
Yeah, it's campy but it's campy on purpose.

I enjoyed 'Homewrecker'. We all love you and that girl from the 'Eating Out' movies.
Yeah, Rebekah (Kochran) is great. A blast. We had so much fun. We both have the same kind of ridiculous sense of humor. You gotta have fun and we had a great time.

Dylan in his pornstar days as Brad Benton.

Does this string of mainstream acting roles complete the transformation for you from porn prodigy Brad Benton to 'real' actor Dylan Vox?
It's been a pretty interesting process. I was actually  interviewed recently for MSNBC along with Sasha Grey as examples of two people who have made the jump from porn to mainstream. Sasha recently did a movie for Steven Soderbergh and it was kind of a big deal since she's done porn.

Yeah, she's been in maybe one or two.
Right? So MSNBC was looking for a boy who had crossed over as well and they said "you're pretty much it." Actually though, it's kind of like Kelly Clarkson having to talk about 'American Idol' all the time. It was awesome and I'm glad I did it because I probably wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing now if I hadn't done it but the whole topic is just kind of boring to me. It's just not that interesting, you know? There's not that much to talk about. People freak out about adult movies but it's kind of really not that different from anything else. You just show up, do your job, and then leave.

Now, you're a former Denverite
Yeah, I was skating and going to school. I got an MBA at the University of Denver and moved to Hollywood right after colleg.

Very well rounded.

Wow, you're well rounded if nothing else.
Yeah, broke but well rounded. I tend to pick really expensive things to do. So I moved to Denver and bought a house and everything but I just don't feel like I ever really connected with Denver at all. It's very whitebread and I'm from inner city Atlanta. It was just the attitude, I guess, and I just didn't get it.

I always thought of Denver being like 'Dynasty' and I thought all these rich people would be all over the place but it was more like 'About Schmidt' with, like, Kathy Bates.

There's, like, super-rich people and super-poor people and there's not really a middle class and it was just freaky to me. I found it to be kind of judgmental. Out here nobody gives a shit about anything but there ... maybe it was just me but I always thought it was kind of strange.


So you hated it here?
I wouldn't say that. It was just a very midwest city to me. Maybe not as much as, like, Iowa or someplace but it just wasn't for me. I mean, I can say that it was beautiful and I met a lot of really cool people there. At least I met you out there.

Yes, we ate birthday cake out of each other's underwear the day we met.
Yes! I danced at your birthday party. That was so hot. But kind of weird. That was my "please God, I need a job, job."


A man's gotta pay the bills! So you're enjoying the west coast?
I love it. It's awesome. The people crack me up and everybody's mellow. And out here if you have a good work ethic, which I do, you can go a long way. In the industry, or any job, if you prove that you're willing to go the extra mile people want to work with you and I really appreciate that. There are so many slackers out here and I'm used to working really hard.

Cream rises, baby. So what's next for you professionally?
'Homewrecker' comes out in March which is awesome and I love that movie. When I first moved here it was the first thing I ever did out here was a play based on that movie. It was a hugely successful run for LA Theater and they were gonna make a movie out of it and they called me three years later and they were really doing it. They were so cool and it's so cool to be working with those kinds of people.

Yikes!

My only argument with this movie is what they did to you on the box cover.  I've seen you up close and personal and you're a good looking boy. WTF?
Ha, I don't know what is up with that. I was like what the hell? I was supposed to look crazy but that's not really crazy.

That is not my Dylan Vox.
Yeah, you can only do so much and then it's out of your hands. But I hate it and, just for the record, I do not look like that!


But you do have a bunch of other projects in the works.
Yeah, I have several other movies coming out. One, called 'Megaconda', will be coming out on the SyFy channel.

Nuh-uh!
Yuh-huh!

Dude!
I know. It stars myself and Stella Stevens and Greg Evigan.

Sybill Danning is awesome.

I love me some SyFy channel.
Me too! It was a blast. Stellas' great and Greg is awesome. We had a great time and there's lots of cheesy graphics and effects. We spent days running away from a snake we couldn't see.

Nothing wrong with a low budget SyFy movie.
Personally, I love them. And then a movie I'm super excited about is 'H1N1 - Virus X'. It's pretty cool and Sybill Danning is in it and she's like my best friend now.


The Sybill Danning? Dude!

Shut up and kiss me, indeed.

I'm not really one to get starstruck but when I first moved down here I was driving down in LA and Sybill Danning was filming something. I was like "I have to get her autograph" so I asked her for it and she wrote 'To Dylan Vox, hope to work with you someday, Sybill Danning' and five yeras later I was working on 'The Lair' and reading the boards and Sybill Danning's name was on there and she was joining the cast. So we did that together and 'H1N1'and so many other things she's like my BFF. She's so cool, so professional, and so fun ot work with. It's just surreal and crazy.

Sybill Danning is legendary.
Absolutely! And I also just finished a movie called 'Shut Up and Kiss Me', a little gay comedy that should be pretty good.

I think we've been needing a cute little gay comedy.
Well I play an ex heroin addict so it's not that cute. I never get the boy next door. I always get the heroin addict or vampire king.

It's your ouvre.
Everybody loves bad guys.

Everybody loves Dylan Vox. And I know you're busy so I'm gonna let you go now but it's been great catching up with you and  congratulations on all the career momentum, you big stud you.
Thank you. It's awesome to have people who knew me before all this. And we have to hang out sometime. You have to come out here for a visit or I'll come out there. You're actually the one reason I would come back to Denver, sexiness.


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