Met a pornstar I used to masturbate to all the time.
When I was a teen back in the 80's, I had an uncle who had a vast porn collection that I would sneak into and grab a VHS tape when nobody was home.
I was attracted to Taboo 3, that incest series that starred Kay Parker. It had other stars in it but Honey Wilder and Kay were my favorites. This was when hairy privates was still a thing.
Jump 20 years later, now I'm living in L.A. working on a popular tv show, one that was cancelled but the fans demanded back so it came to be. By this time I was getting my porn from the internet and found my first loves, Kay and Honey pretty easily and downloaded a few clips to my computer. I have a thing for mature women due to that Taboo series.
One day at work, now by this time the production has been going on for a few weeks, when the lead set designer, an older woman in her 50's was talking to her people and I just happened to be standing there and someone asked her a question and she replied "Oh no no no..." and went on talking about whatever it was. The way she said it clicked something in my brain but I couldn't place it. I went to her and asked if she had worked in front of the camera before and she said no but her underling had a look and left abruptly. On that same set we had the brother of a big star from the 2000's working as a grip, so this is Hollywood, we all worked in front of the camera at one point. I went about my work and that was it.
"Sandy" came up to me a bit later and confessed that she did some acting in high school plays and stuff like that. Thought that was a bit weird because this was the most we had spoken in weeks AND we were in different departments and I was a production assistant and she was the head of a whole department. I told her of course and went away to call my gf to bring my computer, she was working on the same show but hours after me. I had my 'spider sense' tingling about "Sandy".
After awhile I got my computer and found a corner on stage and went thru my folders and there she was! "Sandy" was Honey Wilder and the clip I had was from Private Teacher and she had said "Oh no no no." I showed my immediate boss to confirm it. I really wanted to talk to her and tell her how much I was a fan and ask about the life back then and just talk, but she had reinvented herself into who she was at that time not 1983 Honey, so I left it.
So it turns out that her secret was well known around the old school teamsters and a few of them were assholes because one of them told her teenaged nephew, who was interning in my department on what she was like and what she did. So I had this 15 year old, skinny kid come to me all solemn about what he heard. I wanted to give him a hug but I looked him in the eye and said back then those were movies that had some production value and a storyline. It wasn't like today's crap when anyone with a cellphone can show fucking. Sandy/Honey had won awards for her films and deserved them. Not sure if it made him feel better, but I told him the truth.
In those days porn movies had a story line and a plot a long with the sex scenes .They may not have been the best plots but it wasn't just grabbing any guy and girl off the street having them fuck in a motel or someones bedroom and calling it a movie. They had actual actors and production departments It was expensive to make a porn movie. Then came the video camera and everyone was a porn start.