Any number of pornstars can claim to have appeared in music videos. But aside from Shayla LaVeaux, how many have starred in a rock video for which they were paid by the government of New Zealand? Honoring its 10th anniversary since release, “All My Riches” by DEAD END BEAT….
Taxpayers Foot Porn Star’s Bill
New Truth & TV Extra
September 12, 2003 | ALLEN, Louis
THANKS to taxpayers, an American porn star has been hired for a role in a Kiwi band’s music video.
Funding from New Zealand on Air helped pay Shayla LaVeaux’s fee to appear in the shoot for Wellington group Dead End Beats.
“One of the directors had wanted a porn element in the video,” James Moore of the production company Fish’n’Clips told Truth.
“They realised that Erotica was going on, so they took a stab in the dark and phoned up Steve Crow.”
The Kiwi porn king was “quite receptive” so the production people met with him to discuss the treatment and let him hear the song All My Riches – the second single off the group’s first album.
The lyrics tell a story about a rich man who hires a movie theatre to watch pornography while his wife waits outside in the limo.
It turns out that the star of the blue movie is actually his wife, played by Shayla, who finally murders him.
“After the idea was forwarded to Shayla, she was right into it,” said Moore.
Crow lent the production team a dozen DVDs featuring Shayla and scenes from them were included in the music clip.
And when Shayla agreed to appear, she sent over some extra DVDs.
Her role in the clip, apart from the DVD out-takes, was relatively low-key.
“But she did a provocative sucking of a finger to remove a wedding ring at the end,” said Moore.
She was also asked at one stage to show a bit more cleavage.
“She showed a bit more than that,” said Moore, laughing, “but that’s Shayla for you.
“She really brought all she could bring to the production and was really co-operative.”
He says her $US500 fee was “really peanuts” considering her star status.
“It was nice to have her on set.”
Former Supergroove muso Joe Lonie directed the clip.
Thanks, Joe Lonie, for sharing on YouTube!
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