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Eliza Ibarra: ‘I Like to Try New Things’
Eliza Ibarra watched her share of porn before
she started doing it herself.
In fact, the native of Riverside, California,
said she knew of some of her fellow Spiegler Girls
before she signed with the elite talent agency.
“Absolutely,” Ibarra tells AVN. “Most of them I
was really familiar with, like Asa [Akira] and Riley
[Reid]. They really made a name for themselves
not just because of what they do, but also because
they’re really good people and they actually make a
business out of their name.”
The 21-year-old Mexican-American beauty,
who pulled stints at Pizza Hut and Harley
Davidson before coming to Porn Valley, now is
well on her way to making her own impact on
the adult industry. She’s already drawn at least
one comparison to Reid, the 2016 AVN Female
Performer of the Year.
“I like to try new things. It’s exciting for me,”
says Ibarra, who points to another accomplished
Spiegler Girl, 2016 AVN Best New Starlet Abella
Danger, as a personal favorite.
“Oh my god, I was so excited to finally meet her.
She’s my biggest crush,” Ibarra confesses. “When I
met her I was so nervous; she’s so pretty.”
Ibarra’s path to porn began with taking matters
into her own hands. She wanted to be sure she
could play in the major leagues before making the
jump, deciding it would be a good idea “to hook up
with a porn star to see if I can do this.”
“Because I know they’re a lot bigger than most
people and I don’t want to get my first really big
dick on camera and be like, ‘Ouch. Never mind I
can’t do this,’” Ibarra explains.
She used Snapchat to reach out to Bruce
Venture, a veteran of more than 800 professional
sex scenes who was happy to accommodate
her. Ibarra had flirted with Venture via private
messages when she was 18.
“We had talked a little bit but never met,”
Ibarra says, admitting she wasn’t sure if he would
remember her. “But he was down to meet me and
come to my place, so that was cool.”
Venture tells AVN he didn’t need any convincing
when it came to making time for Ibarra. The porn
vet, who made his porn debut for Kink in April
2010, is no stranger to civilian girls wanting to go
for a ride.
“I have had a lot of girls message me for
sex—hundreds (not that I took up every offer),”
Venture admits. “Many in the same way as Eliza.
Presenting their ID on their birthdays.”
Suffice it to say that Ibarra showed Venture
enormous potential during her “tryout.”
“She is definitely made for porn,” Venture says.
“I didn’t get to test ‘every aspect’ but she started
with a four-hour blowjob without breaking and
I came like six times. Definitely no complaints
here.”
He added up, “I don’t think she’s in it for the
money as much as the experience, which is always
the best reason in my experience.”
Ibarra at press time had shot almost 20 scenes—
eight of which were for the Porn Pros family of
sites.
“She’s doing great,” Spiegler tells AVN.
“[Brazzers director/performer] Keiran Lee says she
gives the best blowjobs since Jenna Haze. That’s
definitely impressive. He told Manuel [Ferrara],
‘She’s going to be the new Riley Reid.’
“She does really good scenes. Everybody who’s
booked her has pretty much rebooked her.”
Ibarra already has shot for Erotica X,
Trenchcoatx, New Sensations, Zero Tolerance,
Girlfriends Films, Amateur Allure, Nubiles
and Blacked with upcoming bookings for Jonni
Darkko, Twistys, Elegant Angel, Naughty America,
Throated, Property Sex and more.
She worked with Logan Pierce in her first official
sex scene—before she turned 21 on March 22—for
Passion-HD under the direction of Tony Profane.
The scene involved Ibarra eating strawberries,
kiwis and other fruits before inhaling Pierce.
“That was a really fun scene actually because
everyone was nice to me and courteous,” Ibarra
says. “They weren’t treating me mean or anything.
Everyone was gracious towards me, making sure I
was comfortable the whole time. It was a lot more
nice than I thought it was going to be.”
Pierce says Ibarra was “jovial and joyous, filled
with palpable, nervous excitement.”
“You could tell she was eager to put on a show
and showcase her talent,” Pierce tells AVN. “I
vividly remember the director being so in awe by
her performance that he looked at me and said,
‘Damn! Bro, were you ready for her?’ She’s doing
all the right moves.”
Pierce adds, “Eliza has immeasurable potential
in this business. I worked with her again just a
couple short weeks after our first visit and already
it was clear that she had grown tremendously as a
performer. I can only imagine how much better she
will become in time. Working with her is not work
at all, it’s a vacation.”
Ibarra says her excitement far outweighed those
first-time jitters.
“Because I knew that this was what I wanted
to do. I chose to do this and it was because
I’m comfortable with my sexuality and not
embarrassed to show those kinds of things,”
she says. “And I wanted to have a platform for
everyone to see, to enjoy it. Because I know I like
watching porn. I like seeing what it’s like, so I
want to be able to give somebody else that joy that
I get from when I watch it.
“That was an exciting part, too, like oooh,
somebody’s going to watch this and they’re going
to like it as much as I like it. … But after I got over
the first one I was just really eager to keep doing it
over and over again.”
Follow her on Twitter: Eliza22Ibarra.
—Dan Miller
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