
We were shooting everywhere Italy, Germany, Spain. I used to shoot maybe three films a month. I signed an exclusive contract with the production company. It was funny.Īfter it ended, I felt like a superstar. I remember when we all took a production bus to the locations it was like we were going sight-seeing, not to shoot porn. It was a very thrilling, everybody was a bit nervous, especially when we went to shoot at the Dead Sea. Everybody in the film was pretty new to porn so shooting in public places was quite stressful, you have to find a quiet spot and if someone comes by, that’s the end of you. The audition tape was released like a preview to Men of Israel.
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It’s like, you won’t take a regular actor if he doesn’t know how to act. It’s one of only a few things that they demand of you as a porn actor, always.

I think they were looking for, first of all, a big dick, and then qualities in sex, what you can do you need to be able to give deep throat, you need to love cum, and you need to be very open sexually. I guess they liked me, because I got the job. It came very naturally to me, although I took an injection to make sure I could stay hard (that was the first industry secret I learned). They have a small interview first – they ask the guy, “why do you want to do porn?” or “what’s going on in your life?’’ – and then boom, you have sex.
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The company that I was working for, they had a series of films with guys that come for the first time to shoot porn. That got me a second audition, which was filmed. So I took a 25cm dildo and started showing off with it for the camera. He wanted to make a film about Israeli guys, and I was living near Tel Aviv at the time, in Holon. He’s the one I worked for across my whole career. The first film I did was called Men of Israel, by the American producer Michael Lucas. I started browsing porn sites and sending emails out to all the mainstream companies and then I got a break. There are of course lots of ways to be famous, but I was a 23-year-old guy, I looked really good, all my partners always said I already knew the job, so everything was adding up.


Porn always really excited me but not only in the sexual way, I guess you could say I was an exhibitionist. Before that I worked as a make-up artist and hair stylist, but I was looking for something else to do. Below, we interviewed Agassi about what he learnt from working in the gay porn business for seven long years and over 67 porn films. The film looks at the perks of being a porn and live sex show performer (travel, money, hot guys), Agassi’s heartbreaking relationship with his mother and how the sex industry can take its toll on your emotions. In the documentary JONATHAN AGASSI SAVED MY LIFE, director Tomer Heymann follows the Israeli gay porn star Jonathan Agassi from his first audition to the end of his on-camera career, which was prematurely brought to a halt by a serious drug addiction.
