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When Black Emanuelle (1975) was a smash hit, Laura Gemser signed a contract with director Joe D'Amato (aka Aristide Massaccesi) for five more Emanuelle films. Gemser said years later that being nude and filming sex scenes for Black Emanuelle were awkward for her because she was very shy, but they got much worse working for D'Amato. He was an infamous director of sleazy exploitation films in 1970s Italy, and churned out hundreds of low budget films that left audiences in awe of how perverse and depraved they were. He ended up having Gemser filming every possible sex (straight and lesbian) and nude scene he could think of and filmed her from every possible angle,

Co-star Ely Galleani said Laura Gemser was sometimes hard to work with because she seemed "very upset" during their lesbian lovemaking scenes. Gemser, who wasn't bi-sexual, said later that they were very difficult for her to do. She said filming her role as a nude masseuse in Emmanuelle II (1975) where she rubbed her soap-covered body against Sylvia Kristel's was bad enough, but director Joe D'Amato had her filming full lesbian sex scenes. According to her, "It's hard to make love with a woman. I mean, it's really hard. But, you know, you get paid for it, so you do it. You just do it."

Laura Gemser said later that the Emanuelle films were all the same, adding "It seemed like one long, long movie that didn't end. You know, it was always the same story, the same things happens." In every film, she played a journalist or a photographer sent out to find some drug criminals, and she always had to strip naked or have sex to get what she needed. She admitted she continued to do them because they paid well and she got to travel to exotic locations, which she loved. That made continuously taking her clothes off and kissing and rubbing against other people tolerable.

Laura Gemser said that in every film she made with director Joe D'Amato, he tried many times to make her film hardcore porn scenes, but she always gave him a resounding "No!."