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FRESH FACES
WHO’S WHO
Lana Rhoades: Chicago Hope
Home State: Illinois | Height: 5-foot-3 | Weight: 120 pounds | Measurements: 33-23-35 | Hair: Brown | Eyes: Blue
boy/girl scene for FTV Girls in Phoenix before landing in
L.A., where she did scenes for Evil Angel’s Mike Adriano,
Blacked.com’s Greg Lansky and the reigning AVN Male
Performer of the Year Mick Blue in her first two weeks.
The bookings came early and often after that as
Rhoades has since performed in more than two dozen sex
scenes for some of the industry’s top studios, many of
which have already called to book her again.
“Everybody seems to really like her,” Spiegler said.
“Everybody is shooting her and reshooting her and that’s
the important thing.”
Even though Rhoades is wasting no time making the
rounds, so far only four of her scenes have been released:
a solo with FTV she did before coming to L.A.; a virtual
reality encounter with Chad White for Naughty America
VR; her Blacked.com debut with Flash Brown; and a
newly unveiled Erotica X scene with James Deen that was
directed by James Avalon and is now up on the
EroticaX.com website.
A former Hooters waitress and stripper in Chicago who
says she loves baking cupcakes, Rhoades had never been
to L.A. before coming to do porn. She planned to come in
November but ended up canceling. “But then me and my
boyfriend broke up. We dated for three years,” Rhoades
said. “I’ve only had sex with one guy before porn, so it
was kind of hard to leave the boyfriend to come and do
this. But then we finally broke up so I was like, I’m going
to go do what I want now.”
Rhoades admitted she never considered everything that
goes into shooting a movie before she saw first hand what
it takes.
“Some scenes you’re not going to love and some scenes
you’re going to go home smiling because you loved it so
much,” she said.
One such scene was her first in L.A. with Mike Adriano.
“The reason why I liked it is me and him both love
asses,” Rhoades confessed, adding that she now has “a
little crush” on the performer/director. “And so he ate
my ass and I ate his ass. And I love that. I had a lot of fun
with that one.”
She also enjoyed working with Lansky, AVN’s 2016
Director of the Year, for Blacked.com, the 2016 AVN
Award-winning Best Membership Website.
“It was different because of the acting stuff. I like
acting,” Rhoades said. “I liked all the pictures that they
grabbed her attention.
Lana Rhoades remembers when adult entertainment first
“My first inspiration to do stuff like this was when I
watched The Girls Next Door over Christmas break one time,
and I watched all the episodes,” Rhoades recalls.
“I always wanted to do Playboy, but nowadays glamour modeling
and magazine stuff isn’t that big of a thing, so you kind of have to
go all the way now, which I’m fine with. Because I’ve always been a
really sexual person.”
It turns out the 19-year-old native of Chicago is good at going all
the way. So much so that she’s already booked until October.
“Right now as of today, her first open day is October 14,” agent
Mark Spiegler told AVN at the end of May.
Rhoades officially started her porn career in April, doing her first
take. I’m actually a fan of Greg Lansky’s work and how he
takes photos of the girls. I think they’re really pretty.
“I actually told Mark I want to do Blacked. I’m not
ready to do Tushy though. But whenever I do anal I want
to do it for Tushy. Flash Brown was really cool. His dick
was really big, but I liked it.”
Rhoades added, “That was one thing I wanted to
experience coming into porn—was doing interracial.
That’s why I started with it. So I have that off my
checklist now.”
Rhoades grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, “like more
out in the country,” and moved to the city by herself at 17
to work at Hooters.
“So I graduated high school early at 17,” she said,
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noting that cheerleading and gymnastics
occupied her time in high school. “As
soon as I turned 18 I quit Hooters and I
graduated to exotic dancing.”
The blue-eyed starlet said she loves
dancing on the stage, becoming one of
her club’s feature entertainers.
“And right before I came [to L.A.]
they also took pictures of me for some
big promotions. So I’m going to be one
of the faces of their company,” Rhoades
said. “And then I was on the TV show
Empire playing a stripper. But I have my
own dancing scene, just a clip of me.”
Rhoades appeared in the Season 2
episode that aired on April 6 called “A
Rose by Any Other Name” for the Fox
TV series that centers on the drama
surrounding a hip-hop music and
entertainment company called Empire
Entertainment.
“The owner of the club that I work at,
it’s actually his son that really wanted
me to get into modeling. And so they
happened to own the house that they
film Empire at [in Chicago],” Rhoades
revealed. “So they got me on it.”
Rhoades said she plans to relocate to
L.A.
“I’m only going back to get my dog
because I didn’t bring her with me this
time,” she said, referring to her blue-
eyed Chihuahua.
She said she also has an interest in
nursing and would like to attend college
in the future.
“I want to be a nurse specializing in
cosmetic injections,” Rhoades said.
In the meantime Rhoades already has
a few surprises in store for fans who
are beginning to see her work. Indeed,
Rhoades’ porn dance card is full with
upcoming scenes with Hustler Video,
Teen Fidelity, Hard X and Michael Ninn,
among others, in the coming months.
She’ll also be featured in a Playboy Plus
photo set that was shot last month by
Holly Randall.
Lana Rhoades is represented by
Spiegler Girls. Follow her on Twitter:
@LanaRhoades.
—Dan Miller