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LIGHTS,CAMERA...
ON THE SET| |By Mark Kernes
Turning ‘The Key’
Director David Lord makes his Wicked Pictures feature debut
want,” Lord explained.
Besides Allens, the cast includes Mercedes Carrera, Olivia Austin, Chanel
Preston and Morgan Lee. “When I was writing the script, Morgan was one of the
characters; I based it on her, and it was funny that I was actually able to get her,”
Lord said. Male roles are filled by Steven St. Croix, Brad Armstrong, Eric Master-
son and Derrick Pierce.
AVN was present for two scenes: Mercedes Carrera with Eric Masterson, and
Olivia Austin with Steven St. Croix.
“Mercedes is playing Sally, and Sally is a workaholic who just grinds it out 14
hours a day, seven days a week; doesn’t have fun, all business all the time, and her
thing is that she finds that she really loves sex,” Lord said. “She hasn’t been laid
in two years, and believe it or not, there’s a lot of guys that go through this too,
that just get so caught up in their own lives—my attorney is such a workaholic;
he barely sees his kids, and I know that female version, there’s tons of them out
there, that work so much that they don’t get to enjoy the fruits of their labor,
don’t enjoy life, and that’s her thing.”
In her scene, Mercedes sits at a desk working with her computer when co-work-
er Eric comes in to ask a question. He notices that she seems distracted, and that’s
her “in” to seduce him right in the workplace. Before long, they’re naked and
Eric’s licking her pussy right in her office chair. Soon, the partners trade places
and Mercedes chows down on his ample twanger before she takes the seat and
straddles him for cowgirl and reverse. Moving to the desk, Eric lays her down side-
ways for side-saddle action, but she wants more manly contact and turns slightly
for mish penetration, and after several minutes, Eric splooges right on her belly.
The second scene is a bit more traditional, in that it takes place in a bedroom on
a bed.
directing debut—and the veteran writer/director/camera operator
was jazzed about the opportunity.
David Lord had assembled a large cast for his Wicked Pictures feature
“I’ve shot countless features before—big one, small ones, medium
sized—but I’ve never done one for Wicked,” he told AVN. “Me and
Wicked have had a great relationship for a long, long time, whether
it’s been inter-office, BTS, production, shooting all-sex movies, but I guess it’s
‘Bridesmaids.’ It’s basically about
finally time for me to step up into the feature realm and here I am.
“I love just making movies, making features,” he added. “With features, you can
put your own spin on things, you can put a lot of your own emphasis on it, be-
”It’s kind of ‘Sex in the City’ meets
people and their barriers.
—David Lord
cause with all-sex, it’s Girl A, Couch B, Guy C, and you have a little bit of leeway
with clothing and stuff, but you don’t have a lot of detail to discover and present,
and I’m very much about the details that make a feature great.”
So ... what’s The Key about?
“Well, it’s kind of Sex in the City meets Bridesmaids,” he offered. “It’s basically
about people and their barriers, and Gigi Allens, through her travels, has found
this Shangri-La—in the script, it’s called ‘the spa’—and it’s a place that gives
people the opportunity to work out their problems, and to not only identify their
barriers, but work through them to be the person they want to be. On top of that
is just a cool sort-of comedy, and people are going to say it’s guy humor, but I beg
to differ. If you have hung out with girls before, a group of girls, you know they
are more vulgar and vile and more funny than any group of guys you’ll ever meet.
“The whole thing with the key is, the character Gigi has been a person who
never really has a home, never has roots anywhere, and she’s traveled the world
because she felt she was empty inside; she felt she needed more, and she found it.
She found it through this house, this spa, this Shangri-La type thing.”
Part of the plot is that to keep the spa going, its patrons must give back. Gigi
has chosen four friends to bring to the spa according to Lord she tells them,
“You’re gonna come here and experience it if you want to, and if you don’t, don’t,
but at the end of six months, one of you is going to be asked to pay this forward,
to find four more women in your life that can use this.”
When the women get an invitation, inside of it is the key that unlocks the door
“The plot is, we’re husband and wife and Steven thinks I’ve sort of been a cunt
lately—that’s the word in the script but that word is so awful,” Olivia explained.
“I come into the bedroom and I’m almost like crying, and I tell him I don’t know
the reason why I’ve been acting the way I have been and don’t know why I’m so
upset and I think it’s more something with me rather than him, and I want things
to change. It’s sort of one of those ‘last straw’ things with relationships; you either
figure it out or you move on, and it’s the first time they’ve had that conversation,
so it gets kind of deep and intense.”
The scene begins with the pair side by side above the covers, but in short order,
Steven’s between her legs with her muff at his lips. She basks in that feeling for a
while, then returns the favor, all the while losing more pieces of clothing. Pretty
soon both partners are naked, and Olivia climbs aboard for cowgirl and reverse
until Steven decides he wants to be more active and shifts her on her side for
spoon—and viewers will be very happy when the blonde beauty lifts her leg so
they can see all the penetration. That goes on for quite a while until Steven just
can’t hold himself in any longer and cums directly on her pussy.
So ... the only remaining question is, will The Key be a one-shot, or considering
the “pay it forward” aspect, a series?
“I don’t know that it will,” Lord said cautiously, “but if the fans want another
one, who am I to say no?”
to this house. “They can go and be themselves and do nothing, do anything; just
be themselves, no matter what it is. They can do whatever they want when they
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On the Job Workaholic Mercedes Carrera finds time for play with colleague Eric Masterson in David Lord’s
new feature for Wicked Pictures.