Page 66 - AVN March 2017

FEATURE
Blue became the first man in porn history to win the AVN Male
Performer of the Year award three straight times and he is one of only
four guys—along with Manuel Ferrara, Lexington Steele and Rocco
Siffredi—to receive the honor at least three times.
Wearing a black tuxedo and red-striped bowtie, Blue gave one of the
classiest acceptance speeches of the evening.
“Thank you so much to everybody. I’m the most lucky man in this
universe. The reason why I say that is when I look back four of five
years, maybe six or seven years, I definitely had the wrong woman
in my life. And then I met Anikka Albrite, the most amazing, loving
woman you can just imagine. She gave me the biggest support ever
and she turned my life around and that’s the reason why I’m standing
here now,” Blue told the audience. “I also want to say every single man
in this category I love you all. Like Greg Lansky always says, you’re all
artists and you’re amazing at what you do and I wish we all could win.”
Blue was also one of 15 performers and a dozen executives to be
inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame this year—each of the inductees
were shown on the big screens at the start of the show.
Axel Braun’s sensational Suicide Squad XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
added to his own gaudy record, marking the seventh straight year he
has directed the AVN Award-winning Best Parody. His latest comic-
book send-up also won Movie of the Year in the last award of the night
as well as earned him yet another Best Director-Parody trophy, Best
Screenplay-Parody and Best Art Direction. “THANK YOU
SO MUCH TO
EVERYBODY.
I’M THE
MOST LUCKY
MAN IN
THIS
UNIVERSE.”
— MICK BLUE
2017 AVN Awards | By Dan Miller
TROPHY CASES Top, from left, All-Girl Performer of the Year Jenna Sativa, Best Actor Xander Corvus. Above, Male Performer of the Year Mick
Blue; presenters Venus Lux, Adriana Chechik and Seth Gamble. Photos by Rick Garcia/@IndustryByRick).
“This is very unexpected and it’s kind of crazy,” Braun said as he
accepted the Movie of the Year award, surrounded by his cast. “This
is the third year in a row that a parody wins Movie of the Year. I
remember four years ago when most people said parodies are dead; I
think they’re alive and well.
“Look, you don’t get to be up here without standing on the
shoulders of a mountain of people and on top of the mountain is a
man that I really love and respect like crazy for his guidance. I can tell
you this accomplishment wouldn’t have been possible without him.
Thank you [Wicked Pictures founder], Steve Orenstein. This is for
you.”
The stunning Kleio Valentien won Best Actress for reprising
her AVN Award-winning role as Harley Quinn in addition to Best
Three-way Sex Scene - Boy/Boy/Girl for her sizzling encounter with
Tommy Pistol and Charles Dera who played The Joker and Batman,
respectively, in Suicide Squad XXX, the fourth release from the Wicked
Comix imprint.
Valentien, who won Best Supporting Actress in 2016 for her role
as Harley Quinn in Braun’s Batman v. Superman XXX parody, placed
her hand over her mouth at the microphone, overwhelmed by the
moment.
“This is amazing. Thank you AVN. Thank you Andre [Madness] and
Jonathan [Morgan from Nexxxt Level Talent]. I love you guys, you’re
amazing. I don’t know what else to say, thank you guys so much,”
Valentien said.
Born and raised on a farm in Texas, Valentien said she grew up a fan
of Batman.
“I was a longtime fan of Batman. I read the comics and everything
so getting to be part of something that I actually love from whenever
I was a young kid was really amazing,” Valentien said backstage.
“The fucked-up relationship that Harley Quinn and Joker had was
something that I remembered in my head. It was just surreal that I
actually got to do something that I grew up reading.”
Valentien added, “I remember texting with Axel and asking him
what he wanted for the character, if he wanted the same character that
I played last year or if he wanted something completely different. He
gave me the outfits and he kind of told me to kind of run with it and
see what I could do and I showed him what I wanted to do with it and
he tweaked things and that’s what happened and led to this.”
The incomparable Tommy Pistol, the 2016 Best Actor winner, told
AVN Suicide Squad XXX was special.
“Being I was playing such an iconic comic book character, honestly
this year this one meant the most to like really give my A game and
do the best I can,” he said. “And they were long days but obviously
it paid off. It’s just awesome. I’m so happy. Coloring, bleaching my
hair, wearing horrible contacts and mouth guards, whatever. That was
nothing. It was all worth it. I had a great time.”
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