The notion today that having made your début, you are a star in your first film is for most both absurd and ridiculous to the point of madness. Wakefield Poole used Casey Donovan as he had come with impeccable credentials as a mainstream actor and model … and was genuinely gay man about town in New York despite having been born a country boy. You do not drift, sleep with the director and say to the case, “Hey, Darlings, I have arrived” and have the dust of stardom sprinkled on you. You have to earn your stripes to become a star. Both had pedigrees and talent that helped them as gay porn star, but they were both born stars and did not come out of a packet like cornflakes! Not even Jeff Stryker as a star had the same charisma as well founded and respected bisexual gay porn actor, Jack Wrangler.
I know being allegedly “straight” in gay porn films is nothing new. Eric Ryan but also attributed to as being bisexual (though most of his porn career focussed on gay porn and like so many of the time, he too succumbed to AIDS in 1993 – who also appeared as Craig Ambler and Houston – and was a model (Craig Holt) for Icon and legend, Kensington Road and Bruce of L.A studios.
