Internet celebrity and "Leave Britney Alone!" phrase coiner Chris Crocker recently sat down with The Huffington Post to chat about everything including, blurring the lines between masculine and feminine, his transition into the world of porn, his forthcoming documentary Me At The Zoo, and, of course, Britney Spears:
On people's response to his new buffer look:
Chris Crocker: People usually ask me something really simple-minded like "So you're a man now?" and they want it to be this really simple answer. And the real answer is that I don't feel like just a man or just a woman. I feel really comfortable with both the feminine and masculine sides of myself. Actually, the owner of the club I've been going to for years here [in Tennessee] recently asked me, "So which do you feel more comfortable as?" And I said, "I really feel equally comfortable -- it just depends on my mood."
On his porn career:
I'm still waiting to get all the specifics of when we're shooting. I had to push it back due to other things in my life. I don't know when or the details but I've always posted nudes online. I was sending people nude photos when I was 14 -- which is another reason I don't want to be a role model for kids. But I've always taken photographs of myself and been interested in how my body looks on camera. So I've sent nudes of myself to people and posted nudes online -- I just haven't done it as much since being known as "Chris Crocker." I have always been comfortable doing everything on camera, so I figured why not porn as well?
On the type of guys he likes:
I attract the same people over and over. I don't like people who like me right off the bat. I really like sensitive guys. I like people who are emotionally weaker than me because I feel like I can help them and protect them. It's really weird and sick [laughs].
On his music career:
I love dance music and what I've mostly done that's been successful in terms of music has been more Britney [Spears]-type music -- like dance songs -- but what I listen to is Fiona Apple and Courtney Love. I'm a writer -- before I ever did videos or anything I just wrote and wrote and wrote. I'm into poetry -- Sylvia Plath and all that -- but I haven't been able to show what I'm inspired by and marry that into my own music. I'm still enjoying doing the pop stuff.
On his documentary Me At The Zoo:
I was friends with Chris Moukarbel's boyfriend -- Chris is one of the directors. His boyfriend's parents are from where I live in Tennessee which was really coincidental and weird and meant to happen. We got to talking and he said that his boyfriend was doing a film about the Internet and how it affects pop culture and they wanted to do some interviews with me. Once they saw my story is really a story for this generation and saw that what happened to me hasn't happened to that many people, they got inspired by the story and wanted to do the film. It's been almost three years in the making.
People are definitely going to see why I am the way I am. It gets into things I'm not comfortable talking about in conversation, but it's there for you to see in the film. It's going to be really weird for me to watch it with an audience at Sundance. It's really emotional.
His thoughts on Britney Spears:
I'll always have a soft spot for Britney because I've loved her since I was in third grade. I'm not inspired by her the way I was as a kid, but I'll always care about her as a person, which is why I made the "Leave Britney Alone!" video in the first place. It wasn't about "Oh my God, her performance was so amazing" -- it was about her well being. So I'll always care about her as a person.
But what I think is sad -- and what I do want to say -- is that during that whole "Leave Britney Alone!" period and how I portrayed myself during interviews and me flashing the paparazzi my crotch, there were anonymous reports in magazines that Britney thought I was creepy. I think the sad thing is that people never understood that I have a sense of humor and it was my chance to show the world who Chris Crocker was. And I knew that if I just talked about the Britney video non-stop that I wouldn't make a character out of myself. I think it's sad that her team thought I was insincere in my video and that I was mocking her doing the crotch shot. It was just my sense of humor and I would totally do that anyway.
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