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The Best Actor award went to last year’s AVN
Awards co-host Tommy Pistol for his title role in Digital
Playground’s Stryker, which is about a half-assed spy
who’s more interested in getting under the covers with
various women than actually doing any undercover
work.
Pistol was not at the show, but his close friend Small
Hands, a fellow performer, accepted the award, calling
Pistol “a legend” with transcendent acting talent.
Katie Morgan, Janice Griffith and Alex Grey presented
the Best Actress Award to Penny Pax for her career
performance as the title character in The Submission of
Emma Marx: Boundaries (New Sensations), a compelling
film about a BDSM relationship that also won Best
BDSM Release and Best Screenplay for Jacky St. James’
nuanced dialogue.
Peter Pan XXX Soars to Movie of the Year
XXX: An Axel Braun Parody at the AVN Awards.
It had already been a good night for Peter Pan
Braun had won Best Director — Parody, Steven
St. Croix won for Best Supporting Actor and
the production was named Best Parody. Then the
envelope was opened for Movie of the Year—the
top-of-the-line award for the best among the
winners of the genre categories—and Peter Pan won.
“This is so unexpected, and so great,” Braun said
from the AVN Awards stage.
“Everybody was so fucking great in this movie
that I’m humbled to be able to work with these
people,” he added, before getting actor Ryan Ryder,
who had played Peter Pan, to sing a snatch of the
re-worked song “We Will Fuck” (music by Sammy
Fain, lyrics by Axel Braun) from the movie.
In his AVN review, Senior Editor Peter Warren
gave the production an AAAAA rating, saying “Axel
Braun’s moviemaking powers seem to be most
potent when he’s visiting the fairy tale realm—
whether it’s the true kid in his heart showing or
just an unparalleled flair for the material ... Peter
Pan XXX is another dazzling example of that type of
movie magic.”
“This is the sixth consecutive time that I won
Best Parody, and the second consecutive that I won
Movie of the Year, so thank you AVN,” Braun told
AVN a few days after the ceremony. “It is a pretty
awesome feeling! My team and I always work really
hard, but Peter Pan XXX was an especially beloved
and complex project that barely made it in time for
the nominations deadline, so these accolades are
particularly sweet. Being recognized by your peers
is always a thrill and an honor, but being able to
make movies that I can be proud of, and having the
privilege of being part of Wicked Pictures along
with exceptional directors like Brad, Stormy, and
Jonathan, is still the greatest achievement.”
“It was my first time working with Axel, so I
had no idea how the movie would play on screen,”
Best Supporting Actor winner Steven St. Croix told
AVN. “I just trusted he’d do the right thing and
gave it my all. Axel actually petitioned God for 48-
hour days so that he could finish this on budget.”
Regarding his performance as Captain Hook,
St. Croix said, “Axel wanted me to do Hook as I
saw fit; not parody [Dustin] Hoffman [who played
the part in Steven Spielberg’s 1991 film Hook], so
I chose to play him as a bully ‘playing’ with his
make-believe friends until he gets tired of playing.
It was another choice, as opposed to playing him
as a villain. That would have been boring. So I
channeled a drunk Eddie Izzard for it.”
St. Croix also had praise for his fellow
performers: “I will add that Keira Nicole was
amazingly calm and professional, along with being
in good spirits for the long hours and a pleasure
to act alongside. I was nudging Axel for a ‘bonus’
scene with Wendy! Ryan was fantastic and anyone
who risks looking like the love child of Carrot Top
and Conan O’Brien for a whole week deserves
an award. Ryan fucking dyed his eyebrows red!
C’mon! I grow a mustache and get an award.”
Ryan Ryder, who was nominated for Best Actor
for his portrayal of Peter Pan, was also proud of the
movie.
“When I got the call from my agent at ATMLA
saying that Axel wanted me to play Peter Pan for
him as the title role for his new Wicked Fairy
Tales feature movie I was over the moon,” Ryder
told AVN. “I had always been a fan of his movies,
and being a singer and actor all my working life
before moving into adult I am particularly fond
of performing in feature movies. The whole
experience was great. All the cast, crew and Axel
himself worked incredibly hard and maintained a
positive happy working atmosphere for the entire
week. For me it was one of the highlights of my
year.”
by TODHUNTER
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