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“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. ”
planned to cast her in another movie, but
said, “I got a little pushback—not anyone
at Wicked, but some of the other talent in
the movie, who were a little hesitant.” He
talked with Raven, who understood the
situation, and Armstrong was inspired to
find a different role for her. “After talking to
her about the other project, I was intrigued.
… I wrote [Fallen 2] with her in mind. Once
I decided [to cast her] I tweaked it more
to her persona and wrote things in that
make sense. So far she’s been nothing but
a pleasure to work with. Not everybody’s
going to get along with everybody, and
I know it’s a pretty hot topic … but she’s
been incredible and very sweet.”
Among the forces of evil trying to take
over Max is the devil’s minion, Pharzuph,
played by Tommy Pistol (the name, like
many in the movie, comes straight from
the Bible, Armstrong points out). Drake,
who says she had never worked with Pistol
before, describes the shoot: “He was so
good in that scene that I forgot I was in
character and believed him 100 percent
and got lost in it. So when it was time for
me to deliver my lines, I was just staring at
him in awe. He was that good.”
On the day of the orgy scene, a lot of
work still lay ahead for the team. “We’ve
Isiah Maxwell and Misty Stone as the archangels Gabriel and Azrael
got one light day doing our cemetery and park scenes,”
Armstrong says, referring to some setups prior to a big
scene featuring Drake with Misty Stone and Isiah Maxwell,
who play Archangels Gabriel and Azrael. “Then we’ve got
our two big days—they’re going to be long and painful. Talk
to me after the second—I’ll be a happy bitch.”
Midway through production, he’s fairly optimistic. “I think
overall the script is pretty strong,” Armstrong assesses,
adding, “The first one was very much me and Jessica, and
here we have very strong supporting [roles] with both Leigh
and Tommy Pistol.” (And both, he asserts, should “get some
noms for their parts in this movie.”) And other things have
changed: The size of movie budgets have dwindled since
the 2008 recession took a hit on the adult industry—but the
skill level of adult filmmakers has shot way up.
“I went back and watched the original, of course,” he
says. “For its time it was pretty epic, but when you look at
it now, those last 10 years our filmmaking procedure has
come so far. I was sitting there giggling.”
But shrinking budgets are no laughing matter. The
Fallen 2 budget isn’t tight, Armstrong says, “but when you
compare it to [Fallen], there were definitely constraints. We
don’t have the cool rooftop shots with the big jib coming
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