Page 46 - AVN September 2015

Working Up a Lather
On the set for ‘The Young & The Rest of Us’ By Mark Kernes
FEATURE
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Known for their parodies, the directing/producing
duo of Will Ryder and Scott David has teamed
with Adam & Eve Pictures to create something
new and different: a full-fledged episodic hardcore
“I’m basically a trophy wife and I can’t stand my
voiceover, and apparently I’m like the main character
because I’m narrating it,” Bentley told AVN. “But it
has nothing to do with me being very beautiful and
spunky. When Will wrote this—he and I have never
soap opera, originally titled Sons & Daughters but now
husband and his kids hate
met, but he knows me. I’m exactly myself in this. I’m
renamed The Young & The Rest of Us, though Ryder may
me and I’m a drunk and a
a bitch who smokes weed, so I think he wrote this
add “NOT A Porn Parody” to the title, for obvious
with me in mind.
reasons. AVN was on set during shooting for the first
coke addict.”
“What happens basically in the storyline,
three episodes earlier this year.
Producer Scott David explained, “What we’re going
—Holly Heart
apparently my dad is a really high-powered person in
the community and the college and my stepmother is
to do is, we’re shooting six episodes altogether right
some sort of drug addict,” Bentley explained, “so I’m
now, and they’re going to release them first online
to their subscribers. … So they’re going to show the
episodes one at a time.” Then, the episodes will be
grouped together and put out in DVD format.
“It’s kind of a new concept, and it shows you that
All Media Play can do original things, like Love, Sex &
TV News [also shot for Adam & Eve]. It’s nice to shoot
some original stuff, though we’ve certainly made our
mark already with the parodies.”
The Young & The Rest of Us is an ambitious project,
what with 15 pages of small-font dialog to shoot
over the three-day period, plus 11 sex scenes, all of
which involves 17 performers—and anyone who’s
ever tackled a shoot of that scope can relate to what
a challenge that can be. In addition, the production is
being shot in a hilltop mansion roughly 60 miles from
where most of the performers live, so Los Angeles
area traffic, recently affirmed to be the worst in the
nation, is yet another obstacle the production will
have to overcome.
Ryder sent over a copy of the script with his
invitation to AVN to cover the shoot, and according to
the included synopsis, the series will be “focused on
parents and the college-age youth of a fictional city in
America. A college president with political ambitions
attempts to keep his ‘perfect family’ and career
together but corruption, lies, cheating and sexual
experimentation threaten the very fabric holding
everything together. College Grove might look like a
sleepy college town but it’s alive and wide awake.”
And that, of course, gives absolutely no clue to
the good stuff. That college president is Vince Ferrara,
played by Steven St. Croix, and those who know his
acting from, for example, Wetwork (for which he won
AVN’s Best Actor honor) may be able to imagine just
how ruthless he’ll be in mounting his run for the U.S.
Senate. Even his racketball game with the series’ other
dad, John Hargarten (Alec Knight), is virtually no-
holds barred in its energy—and right in the middle, St.
Croix takes a call from college professor Sarah Vandella,
threatening her with being fired if she doesn’t tutor his
son (Griffin, aka Tyler Nixon) so he’ll pass his courses.
And then there’s Vince’s new wife, Abby, well played
by Holly Heart, and she too may be generously described
as a “piece of work.”
“I’m basically a trophy wife and I can’t stand my
husband and his kids hate me and I’m a drunk and a
coke addict,” Holly summed up her role. “Will described
me as a kind of Sharon Stone in Casino. He said ‘Make
sure you give me that,’ so that was pretty fun. So I
thought of that in my head, and I’m like, ‘Okay, I’ve
got this.’ My sex scene is with Nick Manning, the
detective, so basically, my husband gets himself into a
little trouble, and I’m worried about losing my luxurious
lifestyle, so I smooth things over with Detective
Manning.”
One scene finds Abby tooting from a plateful of
cocaine (flour, actually) while trying to seduce her drug
dealer (Pacman, aka Seth Gamble), who’s got the hots
for Vince’s daughter Elizabeth, ironically played by the
former Elizabeth Bentley, who now goes just by Bentley.
“I get to narrate pretty much the whole show in
rebelling against both of them, and smoking weed all
over the place and not doing well in school, which is
why I need a tutor—but I don’t get any tutoring in
this; I just have sex for drugs.”
In true mainstream fashion as befits a soap opera,
there are no long expositions of the plot anywhere
to be seen; just a series of short scenes, some under
two minutes’ duration, that advance the plot in short
spurts—leaving time for the longer spurts which cum
at the ends of the sex scenes.
“My scene was a girl/girl scene, so I got to be
buried deep in vagina with the beautiful Katerina
Kay,” said Anya Ivy, listed in the credits as “Female
Friend #1.” “She’s already a rebel. Katerina Kay is the
daughter of one of the families, and I’m the friend
that feeds into that, the friend that’s going along with
everything. I’m there, I’m a supporter, but I’m a rebel
as well.”
Another character who may or may not have a
continuing role in the series was bubbly buxom
blonde Christie Stevens.
“I only found out about this shoot last night,
actually, as I was coming home from a scene,” Christie
confided. “They told me I was playing a massage girl,
24-ish, with big boobs, but I’m also a kinesiology
(‘The Young and the Rest of Us’ continued on page 90)
Some of Us From left, Sarah Vandella, Christie Stevens, Seth Gamble,
Holly Heart and Bentley on the set for “The Young & the Rest of Us.”