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WHO’S WHO
FRESH FACES
Sophia Grace: Giving Back
Hometown: Fort Mill, S.C. | Age: 20 | Height: 5-foot-6 | Weight: 128 pounds | 34C-24–35 | Hair: Dark Brown | Eyes: Hazel
That attitude adjustment shows in a growing number of scenes for top
studios that show first-hand how the 20-year-old performer brings it.
The former high school cheerleader, who debuted in February of last year,
says what she loves about doing porn is “it’s taboo.”
“I feel like it’s a form of art and you should be able to express yourself,”
Grace explains. “And I think that doing something that everybody else kind of
despises or just thinks wrong of I just personally like it even better.”
She says she stopped caring what others think when she turned 18 and got
out of a four-year relationship. “I had my first girl/girl experience and I was
like, wow maybe I am a little freak and I just don’t know it,” Grace recalls.
“When I was younger I would always watch girl/girl porn. Lesbian porn
was my favorite thing, never really straight porn. But the thing is now that
I’m in porn I prefer straight porn when I’m performing.
“I date a girl but I prefer to have dick on camera than pussy.”
She watched a lot of Girlsway movies and Filly Films “because I just liked
how organic it looked and they actually hired girls that liked girls.”
A native of Fort Mill, S.C., just outside Charlotte, N.C., Grace returned to
porn in late February after a four-month hiatus when she obtained her real
estate license in South Carolina.
But taking some time off from porn was a good thing, she adds. “I think
that taking some time off made producers really want to work with me. As
soon as I got back in I was booked up for like two months.”
One of those bookings was with none other than Mick Blue for BAM
knows no bounds.
Sophia Grace tells AVN her freak factor
“I think this year honestly has been
my year of freakiness,” Grace admits.
“I wish that getting into porn I was as freaky
as I am now and as open and completely cool
with the cameras and talking dirty and stuff. I
feel like this year I’ve embraced it more.”
Visions. “It was a foot-fetish anal scene and I love anal,” Grace says. “It’s
actually one of my favorite things in my personal life, so getting to bring that
on set was great.” That scene, available on DVD through Evil Angel, is in
Anal Footsies and marked her first time working with the two-time AVN Male
Performer of the Year.
Grace, who is of Italian descent, has also worked for Evil Angel
producer/director Mike Adriano, LeWood Productions, Hustler,
New Sensations, Porn Pros, Digital Playground, Reality Kings, Bang Bros,
Fetish Network, Kink and more.
Her scene with Adriano can be seen
in Deep Anal Action 2.
“It was just a lot of butt stuff. It
was intense,” Grace recalls. “He’s one
of my favorites to work with. Between
him, Mick Blue and Chad White.”
Grace has done multiple scenes
with White, including a boy/girl/girl
anal for Naughty America VR.
An avid snowboarder since she was
10 who loves the outdoors, she says
her ultimate goal is to own a boutique
that features one-of-a-kind pieces.
She also wants to include a
“backstory” with each item.
“People like to buy things with
meanings as well,” Grace says, adding
that she would like to donate a
portion of her profits to charity.
“Basically, I want to give back by
making money. That’s like my life
goal. I’m actually in the process right
now of making my business plan and
getting an LLC together because I
want to open it in five to seven years.”
Book Sophia Grace through
ATMLA. Follow her on Twitter:
@SophiaMFGrace.
—Dan Miller
Zoey Laine: Vagabond Spirit
Hometown: Louisville, Ky. | Age: 22 | Height: 5-foot-9 | Weight: 135 pounds | 34B-26-34 | Hair: Brown | Eyes: Green
Zoey Laine of her first scene (with Seth Gamble, Summer Day
‘I had no idea what to expect, so I was expecting nothing,” says
“and another girl whose name I don’t remember, she’s brand-
new too”). “It surprised me how comfortable that I was doing
it. I was so nervous right beforehand, and then I got there, and then we
started, and it was like I’d done it all the time.”
Laine describes her pre-adult-industry life as “waitressing, and doing
odd jobs, and living out of my car traveling. Gypsying from Kentucky to
California. I was on my way to Alaska and then I got into porn.”
She was fired from a waitressing gig in Santa Cruz because “they
said it was my attitude problem, but I think it was because I was living
in my car. They were kinda weird about that. I couldn’t find another
job for some reason and I found Kevin Moore from Evil Angel on
Reddit. I didn’t know who he was, and I emailed him ‘How do I get
into porn?’ He invited me to one of his sets, so I took a train to L.A.,
sat through a 12-hour set, and took a train back the next morning. He
hooked me up with my agency the next day.”
She says her best work so far has been for HookupHotshot.com
with Bryan Gozzling and a “super hardcore fake murder-rape scene for
Psycho-Thrillers.com.”
“I love all the people that I meet in the industry, all the people I
work with. I’m just trying to
have fun with it and not be too
crazy serious.” She doesn’t have
a long-term plan: “I never do.”
But the vagabond spirit still
burns bright: “Right now I’m
trying to save as much money as
I can to get a van and live in it.
I’m living under a roof against
my will. It’s making me crazy.
I just want some land and a
school bus. I’m going to make
the school bus into a trailer, and
own a bunch of goats and live by
myself.”
Book Zoey Laine through
ATMLA. Follow her on Twitter:
@zoeylainexxx.
—Tod Hunter
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