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INTERVIEW | | By Sharan Street
WHO’S WHO
That Webcam Heat
BellaPass performer Katie Banks makes DVD debut with Juicy
Juicy Entertainment general manager Danny
Katie Banks, whose website, KatieBanks.com, has been up and running since early 2010. Banks is shooting
Gorman has good reason these days to sing the
new content specifically for DVD releases, and Juicy has the exclusive distribution worldwide.
praises of our neighbor to the north. In February,
Who is Katie Banks? Blond, beautiful and busty, she got her start non-nude modeling and progressed
he signed a distribution deal with Canadian web
to erotic photos before moving on to shooting hardcore scenes with toys and girls. Raised in Vancouver,
starlet Bryci, co-founder of the BellaPass network
Canada, she’s been doing live webcam shows a few times a week since her site launched in 2010.
of sites, who had turned to Juicy to release her first
“This is Katie’s first DVD, so she’s going to a new audience. They’re bringing the webcam heat to DVD,”
exclusive-to-DVD content. Now he has a new line coming
Gorman says.
from another Canadian web performer, and he couldn’t be
Explaining “webcam heat,” Gorman describes the scenes that Banks shoots: solo, girl/girl and boy/girl
more thrilled.
action with her husband. “It’s all true—it’s true sex. These people are not faking it. They love when people
Just a few months after he began carrying Bryci’s titles,
are watching them, and they love the sex. It’s all real.”
Gorman already is looking at great sales. “She’s doing
Out now is the first release, titled Katie Banks; it features Banks, who also directs, and husband TC
really well—my numbers are really up,” he says. “Reorders
Davidson, who produces. The two-disc set features five scenes—all never before seen, and all shot in 4K—
and no returns.”
as well as behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and photos.
Next up from BellaPass is a new line of DVDs featuring
A middle child with two brothers and a father who played rock and roll, she describes herself as “the
wild child” who has a passion for cars. “Definitely a nerd in high school,” Banks was a straight-A student
who joined the theater crowd and played soccer. She went to college, and then started working. “My last
job before starting in adult was a waitress at a local family restaurant chain full time,” Banks recalled. “I
loved the people but I wanted more out of life.”
One thing she wanted was more sex. “I’ve always been a very sexual person, often told I’m more like a
guy when it comes to my sexual wants and my libido.”
Also, she says, “I would definitely consider myself very strongly bisexual. There is something about
women that is very alluring and very sensual.”
Banks says she also watches a lot of porn. “I get inspired by a lot of models that I started watching —Eva
Angelina, Lela Star, Lexi Belle, Tori Black, the list goes on.” And she also liked amateur porn “that looked
interesting, that looked like the girl was having a lot of fun.
“I always found the women looked so beautiful and so glamorous and they were having fun acting and
being silly and just expressing themselves. They seemed to be really free with their sexuality, embracing
who they are sexually—to explore and be interested in pleasing themselves as well as enjoying the pleasure
that’s being provided for them and that they are giving to their partner in the scene.”
that makes us [Canadians] go wild.
”I always say there’s something in the water here
—Katie Banks
In March Banks began releasing boy/girl scenes on her site. “I wasn’t sure what the fan reaction would
be because you never know, right?” she says. “But honestly I’ve been blown away by just how positive and
energetic people have been, saying, ‘I’m so happy you’ve done this. You guys look like you are having so
much fun.’ Everyone just seems super-positive about it, which is really encouraging.”
Speaking of fans, it sounds like Banks’ mother is among their ranks. “My mom is so supportive. I just
love her to death. I did Playboy back in 2010,” Banks recalls. “When I told her it was coming out in print,
she asked to have the first signed copy. ... She’s always super supportive.” When people ask Banks’ mother
if she knows what her daughter does for a living, her mother says, “Yeah—it’s awesome, so shut up.”
For the DVDs Banks and Davidson will release, the scenes will be new and available only on DVD for a
period of time. The new scenes were shot with DVD audiences in mind, Banks says. “It definitely inspired
us to create some interesting roleplay or find some really interesting angles. Rather than just set up one
camera and get started, we’ll set up four cameras ... we can have something that is, you know, more fun. To
push our boundaries and have some fun and ... really just kind of explore.”
Asked about whether she has done any girl/girl scenes for the Juicy titles, Banks says, “The first DVD is
just me, but the second one, which I just submitted content for, has a scene with another fellow Canadian,
Alyssa Reece. ... I always say there’s something in the water here that makes us [Canadians] go wild. It
gets really cold up here in the winter and there’s nothing to do here but stay inside and be naughty and
masturbate,” she says with a laugh. “That’s one of the things I do in the winter when I’m bored. ‘What am
I going to do today? I could put on this porn I saw the other day. That looked like fun.’”
To order the new DVD Katie Banks and other BellaPass titles, contact Danny Gorman at Juicy: (800) 584-
2960 or danny@xxxjuicy.com.
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