2NR: There is a limit to how long a model or adult actress can actually be in front of the camera.TP: Well, the whole facet of entertainment-whether it be modeling or simply a public persona-isn't about the way you look. A lot of it has to do with the project you choose to do. If you do four or five bad movies people will eventually not give you good scripts. In the adult industry you have to put yourself out there. It's a chain of promotion that feeds itself. For me, I dance to fuel the sales of my movies-and I wouldn't be dancing if I didn't have good movies.
2NR: Evan's fully tatted. Does he have a tat of you?TP: Well he has my name. But he wants to do a portrait of my face. We just have to find space.
2NR: I attribute that to poor planning on his part.TP: It's funny because I've met quite a few fans that have images of me tatted on them.
2NR: So he's going to be one of like 10 people?TP: Yeah.
2NR: But he gets to take home the real one.TP: Yeah.
2NR: It's pretty much known that you went to nursing school, but what made you move away from nursing?TP: Um, money. I was a model when I was a teenager so I knew what it was like to be in front of the camera. Then I got the job and got bored. I didn't think that I was going to be a pornstar and make a lot of money. I wanted something different in my life I just wanted to be back in entertainment.
2NR: And entertain you do. Did you ever think that you would actually go through with your first movie?TP: It's something that you hem and haw about. I mean I first started doing magazines. Then I did a movie. I didn't think that I was going to sky rocket as fast as I did. I didn't think that after a couple movies that I was going to be winning all these awards. I wasn't actually going for the awards. I was doing it for the money, not for the fame.
2NR: I don't think you see in the mirror what we see on the T.V. screen. You're beautiful.TP: I have a different view. From the porn perspective you can think that you are pretty but you don't think that you'll become famous. I've had people from high school trying to get in touch with me. All of a sudden they're my best friend and I'm like, "Ewww." In high school I wouldn't say I was popular but I ran track. I was studious. I was a bookworm. Fame changes you. And fame changes how people look at you.
2NR: I noticed that you have 45 movies to your credit under about five other aliases.TP: What some companies do is sign the release for the movie and they throw a name on the movie jacket. On compilations they try to sell the scene so many times. What they try to do is confuse the fans and make them think they're getting a different product-the producers of the compilation want to have a movie with Brooke and another with Tera all to make more money. I've been on movie jackets that I'm not even in. it's just done to sell the movie. Just like terapatrick.com-they say it's my official one but it's not. They say I'm going be there to chat with you but I'm never going to be there. Fans that subscribe are thinking that they are getting ripped off but it's not me doing it to them.
2NR: How many movies have you actually done?TP: Not sure but I think that it's somewhere in the 20s.
2NR: Do you have a favorite?TP: It's actually the one that's coming out in May. It's called Tera! Tera! Tera! It was good because I got to really be myself. I got to be free and I got to work with my first girl. It was just really fun. I had fun doing it.
2NR: Who is your pick as the next artist to watch out for?TP: I don't know a lot of new girls. But I think Mercedes who works with me at Vivid is really sexy and pretty. And there's Teanna Kai. There's not a lot of Asian girls on the market but I think she's very pretty and she will go far.
2NR: What's something you are not going to do on screen.TP: Uh, well, animals.