Siri Podcast Interview – Siri Dahl Gets Personal
This week we had an illuminating conversation with none other than Siri Dahl, once known as just Siri. She started in the porn industry in 2012 but abruptly retired in 2015 (to the dismay of many fans, I might add). However, now she’s back and better than ever. She came back head-first into porn industry of January of this year, and although that pesky COVID19 pandemic hit the world soon after, she is just getting started.
Shortly after unretiring, she changed her name from Siri to Siri Dahl. “I just added a last name to my stage name, I announced that change in early August for a couple reasons. I think it helps differentiate my new work from the old work. Also, it makes finding me online a lot easier.”
But why she did come back? Why did she leave in the first place? “When I left the industry in 2015, at the time, I had no intention of ever returning. I compartmentalized my life in porn, and moved across the country.” Siri emphasized there was a lot of personal turmoil going on in her life at the time, and perhaps the societal shackles of pornstar stigmatization only fueled her doubt.
For all intents and purposes, she left her pornstar life behind, and lived like it had never happened. She moved across the country and lived what she describes as a regular, boring civilian life. After living a relatively tame life for many years, she realized it wasn’t what she wanted.
She started an anonymous podcast called “After Adult” where she was able to talk about her previous life in porn without judgement. “Through doing that and talking about it, I realized I really missed it. So it really was just a slow burn of giving myself space to be honest about why I liked porn, and be honest about why I wanted to do it again.”
Now back in the industry and living far from L.A., she still has to travel to shoot scenes. “I do have to travel out for shoots and plan them pretty far in advance. COVID has definitely complicated that.”
Luckily for us, she got some scenes shot before everything started shutting down, like her threesome for Brazzers with Angela White and Keiran Lee. “Talk about jumping right in, head-first, after completely being out of the industry and living a very boring normal civilian life for five years. I felt like I was in some sort of weird alternate universe for a day. But it was a great way to kinda jump right back in.”
So how is it being back in the porn industry for the lovely Siri Dahl? “I think I am doing my dream job.”
Listen to her talk about the process of creating her own podcast, what it takes to survive in the porn industry, how she’d like to be labeled, female-empowerment, her binge-watching habits, and more.