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EWHO’S WHO
MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
Eva Lovia discusses her Tushy star showcase
Eva Lovia says it all started with a brunch.
Not long after she became a free agent last fall, she sat down with reigning AVN Director of the
Year Greg Lansky to discuss her next moves.
“We talked about what I wanted in my career and branding myself and all my goals,” Lovia recalls.
Those goals included shooting for all three of Lansky’s AVN award-winning studio imprints—
Blacked, Vixen and Tushy—as well as collaborating with him on her first star showcase.
“We felt we were a match made in heaven,” Lovia says. “Everything was so well planned, from
my Vixen Angel shoot to my first IR and now my showcase. There was a calculated theme for
everything.”
Even though Lovia has starred in more than 130 movies since her 2013 debut and won the
inaugural season of Digital Playground’s “DP Star” competition, leading to an exclusive contract, she
says what she just wrapped for Tushy is in a class by itself.
“It doesn’t compare,” Lovia says. “Greg very much puts the girl first and he really puts emphasis
on beauty and having that cinematic quality. There is no rushing.”
The North Carolina resident recently completed two full weeks of filming in L.A. for the
anticipated showcase that has the working title of Eva. The movie includes Lovia’s first double-
penetration scene, first girl/girl anal, first IR anal, first three-way anal, and a boy/girl anal.
“Everything happens for a reason,” Lovia says. “During the time I was with Digital Playground
they were supposed to do my showcase and it didn’t ever end up happening.
“We just did two weeks straight of filming, which is crazy. Nobody does that.”
Lovia says Lansky took special care in scheduling the sex and
the dialogue in an effort to optimize her performances.
“I think that’s kind of brilliant that he separated the
days so distinctly between dialogue and sex and the benefit
of that is you’re not fighting the daylight if anyone is
struggling with any part,” Lovia says. “Whether it’s the
crew with lights or the sound, or if it’s the talent with
lines, or an issue with the sex scenes, you have all the time
in the world. No one’s stressed out. A lot of the pressure is
taken off. Everything was my first, so he really took that into
account.
“I’ve heard of her reputation and Greg says she’s the best
of the best,” Lovia says. “We did a lot of back and forth with
the script. It was a very long process, about six months of just
working on the script. It was just perfect. It has such a real,
authentic vibe. It really feels like you’re growing with this
character. So much that’s filmed today in the adult world doesn’t
put an emphasis on the story. The way it’s executed is a great
balance.”
Lovia chose Jean Val Jean to do the honors in her boy/girl anal
scene. He plays her lover in the movie and their scene was the
first sex captured for Eva, allowing her to “dip my toe in.”
She had previously worked with the French heart-throb in her
Vixen debut—now on DVD in Natural Beauties 3—earlier this
year.
“Jean reminds me a lot of my husband physically so we have a
great physical connection,” Lovia says.
Then she took on five-time AVN Male Performer of the Year
Manuel Ferrara and 2016 AVN Female Performer of the Year
Riley Reid in a three-way anal.
“I felt like it was the perfect cast. I feel like she made Greg’s
Tushy brand what it is. She’s a very sexual person. I didn’t have
to worry about messing up. Both of them were just so into it
that it kind of just flowed,” Lovia says.
“I’ve never been in a scene where we were switching anal but
Manuel and Riley were great. I absolutely adore her. She’s one
of the most down-to-earth girls in the business and she really
helped bring out my best performance as well. And Manuel is
just a legend in his own right. It was really cool to be with him
in a scene like that and see him show his talents.”
Lovia performed her IR anal scene with none other than 2017
AVN Best Male Newcomer Ricky Johnson.
GREG [LANSKY] VERY MUCH PUTS THE GIRL FIRST AND HE REALLY PUTS EMPHASIS ON
BEAUTY AND HAVING THAT CINEMATIC
QUALITY. THERE IS NO RUSHING.
—EVA LOVIA
MILESTONES | By Dan Miller
“He covered all the bases that way. I had the
script months in advance and that way I could
really learn it and feel it.”
AVN Award-winning screenwriter and director
Jacky St. James wrote the screenplay for Eva, which sees
Lovia playing an erotic novelist on a journey of sexual
enlightenment.
Lovia’s character has won several awards for her
novels, but is facing criticism for not being the real
deal.
“She has a lot of pressure from her publicist to
write the next big best-seller and she wanted to do it
more organically, so she finds herself in these sexual
situations where she’s letting go of her pretenses and
she’s enjoying the ride,” Lovia says. “She was super
timid and ended up being in these super fiery sexual
situations.”
Given how the Japanese-Spanish beauty eased into
porn by only doing girl/girl at first and has paced
herself as she has grown as a performer, St. James’
script has “a lot of deep meaning behind it for me,”
Lovia adds.
“He’s super sweet and it was one of his first scenes too as far
as anal goes,” she says.
Then she hooked up with AVN Award-winning performer/
director Kayden Kross.
“What I liked about that was we didn’t use any toys so it was
more authentic and passionate,” Lovia says. “It was more like
real girl/girl sex behind closed doors than putting on this show.
“And that was the theme—to make this really authentic and
for me to really experience these things the way I wanted to
rather than making it this crazy thing.”
Kross agrees.
“I was already a huge fan of Eva after working with her for our
Sun-Lit series, so when I was asked to do this scene I was all in,”
Kross tells AVN. “We were definitely on the same page regarding
the lack of anal toys. It absolutely feels more authentic when
you’re using your own body parts during sex.”
Lovia reveals the most memorable scene from the epic film
was her d.p.—with Christian Clay, who flew in from Italy just for
the scene, and Val Jean.
“It’s one of those things you can’t really prep for,” she says.
“You can kind of try it in your personal life with a toy, but it’s
such a different animal with two people on camera. I can’t even
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