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FEATURE
THE LIFE OF RILEY
After an eight-year absence, Blake Riley returns with a new outlook
Riley quickly became one of LaRue’s muses at Channel 1 Releasing after
filming his first C1R film shortly afterward.
“I was flown out to Palm Springs to shoot Knob Bobbin’. I was so nervous
because after shooting with Randy, I had met Sebastian Rivers and he was
telling me all about the industry; we started dating shortly after,” he laughs. “I
remember not knowing really what I was going into, but knowing I just wanted
to do the best I could. Later that next day, I was offered the exclusivity with
Channel 1 Releasing.”
For LaRue, it was an easy decision: “He was a frickin’ natural from the
beginning, and he just had the … most … beautiful … ass I’d seen since Joey
Stefano, so that’s kind of saying something. After he was done with the scene,
we signed him to a co-exclusive contract. He couldn’t work for anybody else but
Randy Blue. It was good to have a model in Randy Blue because Randy Blue was
the ‘it’ studio at the time.”
Riley was off to the races, compiling up a steady stream of hits with Channel
1 and being named Best Newcomer at both the GAYVN Awards and the Grabbys
in 2008.
“He was in some of the best movies I feel like in my career, like Tread Heavy,
Taken—he did that legendary scene in Link: The Evolution with the water hose,”
LaRue says. “There was kind of a little bit of a Brat Pack back then with the likes
of Blake, Cameron Marshall, Josh Vaughn, Jimmy Durano, Benjamin Bradley,
Brent Everett …”
And so epic was Riley’s derrière that he even had it immortalized as the Blake
Riley Vibrating Ass. (“It was interesting for sure,” laughs Riley of the memory.
“I kind of still laugh about it to this day.”)
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I LEFT BECAUSE I WAS IN A
RELATIONSHIP AND IT WAS
GOING SOUTH BECAUSE OF
MY CAREER. I CHOSE LOVE, OR AT LEAST WHAT
I THOUGHT WAS LOVE AT
THE TIME.
—BLAKE RILEY
From top, Riley in Falcon’s Earthbound; still from
Shifting Gears; the “ass that built Channel 1.”
THE COMEBACK KIDS | By Brady Jansen
I
In a dark alley, a mysterious biker draped
in black—his face hidden under a helmet—
approaches JJ Knight. Unable to control his
attraction, Knight grabs the man’s groin. The
intensity rises, Knight quickly worshipping the
stranger’s built body. Aching for a kiss, he finally
gets the man’s helmet off—exposing the face of
Blake Riley, whose appearance elicits a collective
gasp from the gay porn universe.
The brilliant tease on camera was masterfully
constructed by Chi Chi LaRue in his smash
Falcon sequel Earthbound: Heaven to Hell 2. The
already anticipated effort was made all the more
marketable given it featured Riley’s return to the
business after an eight-year absence.
“The porn goddess was shining down on me,”
LaRue says. “I got a call from Blake right at the
start of casting, and he goes, ‘Sit down because
I think you’re gonna fall down when I tell you
this, but I want to come back.’ And I was like,
‘Whaaaat?!’ I was just like so happy. He was like,
‘I’ve never looked better, I’ve never felt better, I
never really wanted to leave.’”
Like the sequel, Riley’s return was a long time
in the making. His on-camera story began in 2006
with his Randy Blue debut.
“I was I think 18 or 19 when Randy and Chi Chi
reached out to me via MySpace … yes, MySpace,”
Riley recalls with a laugh. “Initially, I was not
remotely interested. Things in my life basically
took a turn for the worse, and I actually ended
up homeless for a short time. I was able to find a
computer and reach back out to both of them, and
it was maybe one to two weeks later and I was in
L.A. shooting my first scene with Randy Blue. I
remember being scared out of my mind at first. I
didn’t know what to expect. I remember my first
solo with Randy Blue, we came up with my stage
name during that very shoot.”
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