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INTERVIEW | | By Dan Miller
Postcard From Italy
Tera Patrick sets up in Europe
Tera Patrick has taken her talents to Italy, booking models
for various projects in a unique collaboration with Fantasy
Studio Agency.
The retired adult superstar is working closely with
Fantasy Studio owners Alexia Mell, a model and feature
dancer, and her husband, David Gambin, to bring the top
entertainers in the world to Europe.
“It’s been wonderful,” Patrick told AVN in an interview
from her home in the Veneto region of northeast Italy.
“The feature dance market is like the U.S. and it’s big
here in Europe. David and Alexia handle all the features
and they wanted to expand and bring in some other
stars.”
By popular demand, Patrick did her first feature dance
tour in Italy from March 2015 to May 2015, performing
12 shows all over the country.
“And they were wonderful,” Patrick said. “I’ve been
retired from shooting for quite a while but I’ve still been
active doing feature dancing. I’ve worked with cabarets
and theaters and burlesque troops. That is one part
of the industry that I do love. I love dancing, even at
conventions. I did four Exxxotica shows last year.”
It turned out she had such a blast doing her first tour
of Italy that when her contract was complete she decided
to move to Italy and continue working with Fantasy
Studio, joining forces with Mell and Gambin.
“And it’s been absolutely a dream come true to live in
Italy,” Patrick continued. “It was also an inspiring change
for me to leave L.A. and come live over here. It’s different
and exciting and a lot of fun.
“I love the industry out here. I’ve met a lot of
wonderful porn stars and dancers. I’m booking a lot of
WHO’S WHO
Weekly Dish
Kross and Ferrara serve up ‘Porn Soup’
Seemingly ubiquitous porn power players
begins with us talking about everything. Right
Kayden Kross and Manuel Ferrara are
now we’ve been in most of the episodes.
everywhere these days. Now they’re
We’re writing others that don’t have us in
conquering a new format with Porn Soup,
them. We’ve already developed a couple
a series of shorts on PornTube.com that
characters.”
document daily life in Porn Valley.
Kross said there is a “Seinfeldy quality”
The series kicked off with “When Porn
to the intros. “We lead off with a hookah.
Stars Get Recognized,” in which Kross and
Sometimes we’re the irrational character.
Ferrara are accosted by clueless fans.
Sometimes the others are,” she said. “For a web short
“Ever since we filmed the first episode we’ve pretty
it’s an efficient use of time to tell a larger story.”
much been walking around with a notebook and
Noting that Porn Soup is “a unique kind of show,”
recording everything that happens to us as a comedy
Kross said that if there’s anything in adult that’s
short,” said Kross.
similar, “I’m not familiar with it. I’ve seen porn
“The whole series is around us being a couple in
movies made with less of a budget than we have to
the world. I don’t think there are any episodes that
make these. They’ve given us everything we need to
don’t directly reference the fact that we are a couple,”
succeed with this.”
Kross said. “They kind of take things that happen
Kross said they sought mainstream production
to us as we go through life running into ridiculous
crew “because we wanted to do something that wasn’t
situations and re-enacts them.
a usual suspect in terms of adult output.”
“We’re trying to tell the stories through actors and
She added, “We wanted to bring in a fresh set of
whatnot. We’re the callback. Every episode always
ears and eyes and we wanted to get that in terms of
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talent in Italy from Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Norway, Finland and Holland.
“I’ve enjoyed meeting a lot of the talent on this
side of the world and seeing the business run from this
perspective. I still handle 100 percent of the licensing
for Teravision and for TeraPatrick.com—my website with
Gamma. It still does very well. I’m enjoying being here in
Europe and indulging this part of my fan base.”
Patrick, who has done photo shoots for internationally
known magazines such as FHM and Men’s Health while
in Italy, said Fantasy Studio would like to book American
porn stars for feature and promotional tours in Europe
because there is an undeniable market for it.
“Living and working here in Italy and doing the shows
has given me a different perspective,” Patrick said. “I’ve
done so much featuring in the U.S. and then coming over
here I feel like Tom Cruise. The fans really appreciate me.”
“When we leave and go to other parts of the world the
fans are just so happy to see us. Being here in Italy and
performing live shows has been exhilarating.”
Patrick said Miami-based Veronica Rodriguez is among
the first girls she’s booked to come over this spring to
shoot films, do media and sight-see. She said the ideal
time frame to host a U.S.-based star would be two to four
weeks—whatever the girl is comfortable with.
“I would love to be a liaison to book American porn
stars or entertainers over here,” Patrick said.
“With what we can do here with feature shows and
promos it can be productive and lucrative for a girl to
come over.”
For more information about Fantasy Studios,
visit fantasystudio.it.
set design. We went after the people we knew would
be excited about a project like this and we got so
lucky. We have an amazing editor, an amazing, unique
musical score and an amazing stop motion artist.”
Kross there is no nudity, but one bit has implied
nudity. “We want to be able to hit the largest audience
possible,” she said.
In terms of how the project came together, Kross
recalled, “It was kind of an organic thing. We were
talking with PornTube about projects we could do
together. They’re the only tube site that licenses
content only with permissions, which is really
wonderful.”
“I’m so excited,” Kross added. “It’s definitely my
favorite project that we do every month. It’s so much
fun and we have so much control over what we do.
“We love making porn and what we do. This is a
weekend treat that we get to make. So many people
would kill for a check to make whatever they want in a
creative way every month. We’re insanely fortunate.”
Find episodes on PornTube.com under the Series tab.