But I don't remember your ever having been terribly shy as we were growing up, or sexually insecure, or unassertive. ROBERT: Poole evidently realizes that everybody, even a porn star, has certain insecurities. ROBERT: You're liable to get a venereal disease just by being gay. The only thing bad about being trash is that you're liable to get a venereal disease. I'm not a snob, and I'm not trash, because I don't believe in trash. It's not that I resent either one of those labels, it's just that it's not me. I've lost my choice of partners, too, because I go around rejecting everyone, then I'm trash. There's something about anonymous sex which is heightened, and I'm no longer anonymous. But, for instance, I can't go into the baths anymore, into the orgy rooms, because it's not the same anymore. But the basic goals in my life are still the same. ROBERT: Is it true? Have you had to change your life, as Poole said? You'll forever more give up what you had before you were a star." He psyches them up to where he wants them.
He knows exactly how to get from his actors what he wants. you're going to be hot - everybody's going to want you." Did he tell you that? because once someone's seen you on the screen. ROBERT: Wakefield Pools said in an interview that he chooses as his actors "people who are willing to change their lives, not to remain constant, to give up something." He warns them to "be prepared because you must give up not being wanted. Before it was, "I'm going to bed with a hot-looking man," now it's going to bed with Richard Locke. But I find it's a different kind of response now. RICHARD: Not any more than they have otherwise.
I walk down the streets in San Francisco or get on a bus, just everyday living, and I have people stopping me all the time saying, "Are you a movie star?" or "I saw your film." Just in passing on the street, It really makes you feel good. ROBERT: Do you consider yourself a sex object? In between, I did Take One for Wakefield Poole. We did Kansas City together, then last year brought out its sequel El Paso Wrecking Corp. Joe saw my picture on the subway and when he came back to the West Coast, he looked me up and took me to see Sam, who was working at a major studio in L.A. They spent a little money on advertising and plastered posters of me all over the subways of New York. In fact, that was how I got discovered for Kasas City Trucking Co. RICHARD: No, it was a feature length 16mm that went all over the country. He wants me to get some hot men." I played an Oklahoma patrolman. I'm the casting director for a movie a friend of mind is doing. RICHARD: I was in my living room and a friend of mine came and said, "Richard I've been looking for you. How were you discovered? I know you never worked as a soda jerk. ROBERT: Let's start with a little history. Richard and friends building his geodisic dome in the desert. We'll include your solar energy projects along the way as they apply. I also want to talk a bit about family and how two gay brothers handle it. I know you consider your career as porn star secondary to your career as solar house-designer and builder extraordinaire, but I'm conducting the interview and I want to stick to pornography - what you do, how you do it, and where you're heading. ROBERT: Now, Richard, I know that you want to talk about solar energy. He is followed by his younger brother, Robert Locke, who has somewhat less of everything but who can, nevertheless, write. 6'2" tall, dark from a drop of Cherokee blood from generations past, with black hair and mustache touched with gray and shoulders as broad as Joan Crawford's. Richard is a rugged, good looking man of 37.
Uncharacteristically, he has all his clothes on, does not have an erection, and has no foreign objects in any orifice. Richard Locke steps into the frame to look out over the city and to cruise the street below. Camera continues pan until it is revealed that we are on the sun deck of a beautifully restored, three-story Victonian house. Camera pans left and tilts down to reveal Castro Street below, alive with some of the best looking men in the country. LONG SHOT: The unmatchable panorama of San Frncisco, the bay glittering in the sunshine behind the city.
I never imagined such a thing then as a World Wide Web. In December, 1978, Blueboy published "My Brother the Porn Star: An Interview with Richard Locke" but the magazine gave me the copyright since I was thinking that one day I might write a family biography.