A black male porn star is suing his former employer after a white female costar called him the n-word twice without his consent while filming a scene and footage of the incident then appeared in a porn video online.
Maurice McKnight, who performs under the name Moe the Monster, filed a lawsuit against DF Productions Inc. and his former supervisor James Camp in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday.
The lawsuit alleges that during filming on July 12, 2017, director Camp asked McKnight on two occasions if he would consent to being called the n-word during filming by his white costar, and both times he refused.
“I told him, ‘No, I don’t like the word,'” McKnight told BuzzFeed News on Thursday.
He said Camp told him that fans enjoy hearing the word during porn. “I still don’t like it,” McKnight said he replied.
McKnight said the director then came back later in the day and again asked, noting that his costar, Deborah Hinkle, who performs as Ryan Conner, was OK with saying it.
“I said, ‘I don’t care if she’s OK with it — I don’t like that word and I’m not down with it,'” said McKnight, who has worked in the adult film industry for nine years.
He also said that Hinkle was standing next to the director both times that he refused.
However, during the filming of his ejaculation, aka the money shot, Hinkle can be heard saying the word twice.