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FEATURE
FEATURE | By Dan Miller
As busy as ever, Lisa Ann also plans to continue
hosting her weekly podcast, “The Lisa Ann
Experience,” and make appearances at select trade
shows throughout the year.
Isiah Maxwell, who was hand-picked to pair up with
Lisa Ann in her first comeback scene, accepted her
invitation to be a guest on the podcast.
“I shared stories, including working at Burger King
full time, and part time as an intern at an agency
for the first year of my career,” Maxwell, a native of
Cleveland with more than 600 credits since 2013,
tells AVN. “Lisa’s show gave me a lot of insight
into different directions I’d like to take my career.
She’s always willing to make time to explain how
the business works. I admire her strongly for her
intelligence and attention to detail she puts into
everything.”
Kenny “Iggy” Strode, a producer for The Morning
After on 590 AM The Fan in St. Louis, says Lisa Ann
has become a go-to guest for their lively sports talk
show hosted by Tim McKernan, Doug Vaughn and Jim
Hayes.
“Lisa Ann is awesome,” Strode tells AVN. “We love
her to death and our listeners love hearing her on the
show. We are hoping to bring her to St Louis in May.
“Lisa joins us every Friday during football season.
She will also join us if there is a topical item in
regards to the adult industry. She brings fantasy draft
knowledge, wit, personality and great porn stories.
What’s unique about Lisa Ann is that she can tell a
great Christy Canyon story and move right into what
value players to draft on Sunday. She really is one of
our favorite guests and our listeners agree.”
In this exclusive interview, Lisa Ann goes deep on
what she wants to accomplish coming back to porn
and how many of her objectives involve giving back
to the porn community by mentoring young starlets,
among other endeavors.
AVN: Why did you choose Isiah Maxwell for your very first scene back?
Lisa Ann: He’s such a nice guy and in the three years I’ve been gone he and I kept in touch. I speak with other
girls that work with him. I have never heard one bad thing about this kid. He’s just all the way around good. He
loves what he does. He enjoys being on set. I interviewed him for my podcast the other night and I asked him
some of the other questions I’ve asked male performers in the past.
And I said to him, ‘How do you get past it when you’re not into the girl?’ And he said, ‘Lisa, I’m just happy to
be in vagina that day. I’m just a regular guy, really happy to be having sex.’ And that was the answer I’ve never
gotten! This is a guy who gets it. I’ve had guys tell me ‘I pretend I just got out of prison yesterday. I pretend
she’s Cindy Crawford.’ I’ve gotten all these other answers but to him it was real relatable to the regular guy
who’s like, ‘I’m having sex. She can’t be a 10 every day.’ I was like, ‘Oh my god, Isiah, this is why you work in
this business and this is why you’re important to this business because you bring that sense of gratitude to set
where you’re like, ‘Hey, this is a pretty cool gig.’
“BASKETBALL PLAYERS WARM UP BEFORE A GAME. BUT
NO ONE WARMS UP BEFORE A SCENE. AND THAT
INTIMACY IS THE WARM-UP AND THAT’S GOING TO BE
SOMETHING I FOCUS ON, TOO.”
How much will you perform in all your new movies?
For the first movie I’m in every scene; second movie I’ll be in every scene, just because I feel like my fans
have waited so long I have to give them as much as I can; and then Evil will be hiring me to direct some
projects for them. So I’m going to expand my palette by taking on some of their work as well. Just here and
there for something different for me and I won’t be in those scenes. I’ll just be doing more directing.
You’ve talked about wanting to bring ‘intimacy’ back to porn. … How did 50 Cent’s cable drama
Power strike a chord with you?
It’s some of the best sex scenes I’ve ever seen on a regular television show and watching that show inspired
me so much because think about it. … On Power you’re not seeing penetration but I watch these scenes and
I am totally turned on right now. I don’t need the penetration. This build-up and this connection and this
ravishing kissing and undressing, ahh … And that made me go that’s really kind of what we’re missing.
Foreplay is gone … We’ve cut out that seven minutes of footage. In the real world guys are not that hard
when they walk in the room and girls are not wet yet because lube is not being handed to them off to the side
of the screen. I want to teach that again and I think with performers it will help them break away. The one
thing I’m hearing in the male [talent] base is more guys are spiking than ever and more guys are taking Viagra
than ever. If they have that connection with a girl they can take that day off from taking whatever they take.
And any day you’re taking off from putting chemicals in your body is better for you.
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