Page 108 - AVN September 2018

Isiah Maxwell, Jessica Drake and Misty Stone
A compelling reason to do a sequel for Fallen is that
it was one of Wicked’s most successful movies ever. For
Drake, it’s more than that: “It’s also my favorite movie that
I’ve ever shot. A few movies have come close, especially
recently, like my showcase, but Fallen, I won my third AVN
Best Actress award for Fallen.”
Fallen 2 looks in on Angel and Keith, 10 years down
the line, with Angel still filled with regret over the death of
Denise, the young woman she was charged with protecting.
The role of Denise was played by the now-retired Jenna
Haze, who, Drake reveals, will make an appearance in
Fallen 2 (albeit in a non-sex capacity).
Armstrong dissects the issues he faced in coming up
with a storyline that advances the saga of Angel and Keith.
“You can’t have a sequel where they fall in love again. You
can’t have a sequel where they learn about each other
again and experience those many firsts that they do in the
first movie. So that was the tricky part,” he said.
When he originally started working on the sequel about
five years ago, he planned to make Drake the good angel
and Asa Akira the bad angel. “By the time we’re actually
doing it, Asa’s not here, so then we had to come up with a
whole different take on the story”
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Pharzuph (Tommy Pistol) and Max (Leigh Raven)
He admits, “The script was a little slow
in coming. It was a bit of a chisel.”
“So this is another chapter in my life
with Keith,” Drake says, explaining how
the couple become the protectors of a girl
named Max, played by Leigh Raven, “who
everyone in the movie seems to be after
for some reason, and we have to figure
out why.” The forces of good and evil are
clashing to control Max, a downtrodden,
pregnant sex worker who, it turns out, is
a modern-day Virgin Mary. Among those
forces is the devil herself—also played
by Drake. “I begged him to rewrite the
part, and so I got to play the devil,” Drake
exults. “I’m playing opposite myself. It was
five pages of dialogue and it was straight
between me and me. … It was toughest
acting I’ve ever done in a movie. But we
had Chanel Preston come in and read the
other lines so I could act off of her. … She
never appears in the movie, but she was
brilliant and I definitely owe her.”
Aside from scripting issues, another key
decision for Armstrong was casting Leigh
Raven, which happened shortly after Raven
was at the center of a controversy when
she complained on social media and to law
enforcement about her experiences on a
BlackPayback.com shoot. Armstrong first