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FEATURE | AVN AWARDS SHOW
Top, Lil Wayne surrounded by the audience, presenters Katie Morgan,
Tommy Pistol and Kat Dior with trophy girl Sofi Ryan. Middle, presenters
Xander Corvus, Jenna Haze and Charlotte Stokely; Greg Lansky bringing
Kevin Moore on stage. Bottom, Rocco Siffredi. Photos by Rick Garcia
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“We are at a great advantage in this room because we
have the ability to tell amazing, complex, captivating,
motivating, entertaining stories and we can include the
ultimate sexual expression. So I want to leave you with
this. I want to thank my co-pilot Craven Moorehead, the
entire cast and crew.”
Backstage Mills talked about casting Half His Age,
with additional supporting roles were played by MILF
Performer of the Year Cherie DeVille, Small Hands and
Xander Corvus. “I wanted to work with talent that I
knew had it in them and they just needed an avenue to
let it out,” she said. “So all of these performers I had
seen and I knew that I was just going to give them a
little more, a little extra and see what they come up
with.”
When Lil Wayne returned to the stage for his final
medley, he went shirtless with black sunglasses and
kicked off the set with his platinum-selling hit “A Milli,”
followed by tracks such as “Go DJ,” “Got Money,”
“Hustler Musik” and “I’m the One,” among others,
as more than a dozen dancers from the Hustler Club
joined him along with about 100 porn stars.
Then when Mills returned to the stage 10 minutes
later to hoist the Movie of the Year trophy, she
concluded, “This is the icing on the cake.”
“I’m not going to make this an episode of Porn Script
Theater, those of you who know what that is,” Mills
said. “I’m just going to take the opportunity to once
again thank this incredible cast. You guys let us drag
you through every emotion—no matter how crazy or
outlandish or outside your comfort zone—you all did it
with enthusiasm and passion.”
Kristen Scott, whose Best Supporting Actress win was
her first AVN Award, said her character in Half His Age
was a departure for her.
“I’m used to being the teenybopper that gets
corrupted,” Scott, a native of San Diego, told AVN in
the winner’s circle. “My natural energy is to be fun and
happy and silly. This is so overwhelming. It just really
surprised me.”
Small Hands also won his first AVN Award for playing
what he called in the BTS reel a “scumbag” who bangs his
step-sister (Scott).
“I love acting so I did not find it challenging,” Small
Hands said. “I thought it was a fucking blast. To be
absolutely fair, to be around such talented people I’m the
least talented in the room, so I’m having fun. I’m just trying
to keep up with Kristen and Jill and Charles and Xander and
Craven and Bree are so fucking brilliant that I’m just trying
to keep up. I’m just holding on, like let’s keep up baby. I’m
stoked. I’m really appreciative.”
Tommy Pistol let it be known in no uncertain terms how
pleased he was to win AVN Best Actor for the third time in
his glittering career for his role in Mike Quasar’s Ingenue for
Wicked Pictures.
“Thank you to this industry; we’re a fucked-up family but
we’re a family,” Pistol said when he took the stage.
Back in the winners circle, Pistol talked about Ingenue. “It
was a good drama. It was a good piece about an older man
whose life sucks and then this young woman comes into his
life and he’s like, ‘I’m not done. I’m not this shriveled-up
man.’ It was meaningful. It was fucking real,” Pistol said. “I
love the way Mike Quasar writes his scripts because a lot of
them are very real and they’re believable. It’s authentic.”
Sara Luvv, the 23-year-old native of the San Fernando
Valley, graced the AVN Awards stage for the first time in her
six-plus year career to lift the Best Actress award for her role
in The Faces of Alice for Girlsway/Girlfriends Films.
“The most challenging part was switching between
characters because I played three characters in this movie
and it was really hard to toggle between being a super
feminine woman and being a butch lesbian who kind of
acts like a sleazy dude,” Luvv said. “So I think that was the
most challenging and doing that during a sex scene was very
challenging.”
Earlier in the night Girlsway’s Vampires, a dark fantasy
inspired by the active Girlsway community, triumphed in the
inaugural Best Action/Thriller category, edging out several
heavyweight productions.
Directed by Stills by Alan, the supernatural tale features
Shyla Jennings, Abigail Mac, Melissa Moore, Carter Cruise,
Jelena Jensen, Serena Blair, Georgia Jones and Angela White.
“This project took about six months with the script
writing, pre-production and post production,” Alan said.
“We brought our editor [backstage], who did some magic in
post, and about five incredibly insane days of filming.”
The Best Comedy award went to AVN Hall of Fame
director/performer Joanna Angel’s latest passion project,
Jews Love Black Cock, from her studio Burning Angel and
distributor Exile.
She joked backstage her idea for the movie came from
“being a Jew and loving black cock.”
“It’s such an amazing feeling to come up with a concept
and then put it all together,” Angel said. “I love making
movies, especially when it’s comedy it’s a very special,
particular thing. I’ve always wanted to make porn where
people were laughing with me and not at me.”