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FEATURE
PureTaboo creator
Bree Mills
NOT UNUSUAL
FOR PERFORMERS
TO SHED TEARS
ON THE SET OF A
PURETABOO SCENE. MANY TIMES IT’S
NOT EVEN IN THE SCRIPT.
“People cry,” says co-director Bree Mills.
“In almost every episode one person at least
cries because they’re so proud of what they’re
doing. I won’t name names but it’s males and
females.”
Mills wants to change the perception that
adult performers can’t act, making it the
primary focus of PureTaboo.com, her latest
creation, which launched in September.
The head of production for Gamma Films
Group sees a goldmine of acting talent in
porn—the catch is it’s often lying beneath the
surface waiting to be tapped.
“When I started to come up with the
idea for PureTaboo I wanted to challenge
everything that I had ever done and I wanted
to challenge pretty much everything I had
been told not to do,” Mills tells AVN.
“One of the main stereotypes in our
industry that’s always existed and certainly
still exists today is the idea that the story—it
doesn’t matter how much storyline porn is
trending—people are always like, ‘Who really
cares about the story or who really cares
about the acting? They don’t call it mattress
actress for nothing.’”
But Mills refuses to accept the notion that
porn performers lack the emotional depth
necessary to bring her haunting stories about
the dark side of human nature to life.
discusses the power of acting
She says it’s quite the contrary.
“I’ve always considered myself an actor’s director more
than anything else,” says Mills, who calls the shots for every
PureTaboo episode along with seasoned veteran Craven
Moorehead. “I just love working with scripts and basically
the same way you’d approach it if you were doing a play. I
really wanted to challenge the stigmas that exist about the
importance of acting in adult.”
To say her methods appear to be working would be an
understatement. At press time Mills & Co. had just released
Half His Age: A Teenage Tragedy, the first feature-length film
from PureTaboo that was rolled out in three parts. The movie
follows a perverted high school teacher (Charles Dera) who
has an affair with his student (Jill Kassidy) and then gets
caught by a fellow student (Kristen Scott) who threatens to
expose their secret.
Several of the early episodes feature some of the top
performers in porn cast in rare dramatic roles. They include
Adriana Chechik, Tommy Pistol and Chad White (“Crossing
Borders”); Aubrey Sinclair and Danny Mountain (“A
Charitable Man”); Elena Koshka and Derrick Pierce (“The
Allowance”); and Piper Perri and Tyler Knight (“Fuck Me
First Daddy”), among dozens of others.
But the process starts with Mills in front of her computer;
she writes and produces about 10 PureTaboo episodes per
month—each one begins with a three-page story treatment—
in addition to her duties managing various other projects in
the Gamma Entertainment universe.
“WE’RE THERE BECAUSE
IT’S A MISSION AND
NOT A JOB.”
—BREE MILLS
“Bree is a powerhouse,” says performer Charles Dera,
who stars in Half His Age. “She never takes a break. I
feel that she translates the feeling of the scene to the
actors so well. We do ‘porn script theater,’ as she calls it,
before shooting the scene. Really getting the feeling and
energy down. Nothing is scripted, which I love. We ad-lib
everything once the scene is explained. We generally get
it in three takes at the most. That way the energy is not
lost.”
TABOO CREW Back row: Charles Dera, production manager
Lisa Sloane, Whitney Wright, Elsa Jean, Elena Koshka, Small Hands;
middle row: Kristen Scott, co-directors Craven Moorehead and Bree
Mills, Ryan Driller; front, videographer Matt Holder, production
assistant/non-sex performer A.J. Bucks, Cherie DeVille.
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