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“I always wanted to do
something spectacular and do
something outdoors.”
Misha Cross knew she wanted to direct from the start of her journey in adult entertainment.
The Polish star studied photography in her native country before beginning her porn career in late 2013, giving
her a strong foundation for what was to come. “But I never studied filming,” Cross says. “So I knew that if I wanted
to do it I wanted people to do it as I want it to be done.”
Cross continued to entertain the idea of producing and directing her own scenes as she built her reputation as
a performer, winning back-to-back AVN Foreign Female Performer of the Year awards in 2016-17.
During that time she still had the desire to shoot her own stuff, but she didn’t want it to be ordinary.
“I thought I want to do something cooler and then I realized that I can do it with [Lucky Red],” Cross says.
Cross describes her relationship with her cinematographer as “like an old marriage.”
She and Lucky Red were friends for about four years before becoming the creative team behind Cross’s now
expanding directing portfolio. On February 11, Evil Angel released Elements, which was the second movie to
come out since Cross signed a directing deal with the legendary studio—and the follow-up to her AVN Award-
nominated directorial debut, Misha in Exile, which she embarked on shooting beginning in November 2017.
With Elements, Cross created four erotic interpretations of earth, fire, water and air, showcasing Cherry Kiss,
Tina Kay and Anna de Ville in gorgeous, untapped locations in Germany and Spain. Cross herself did the honors
in the earth-inspired scene that features her in a set-up on a farm in the southern region of Bavaria, Germany.
With a focus on music-video-style teases shot with nature as the backdrop, Cross set out to accentuate the
beauty and strength of her female subjects in Elements without skimping on the hardcore—every scene is anal.
“I always wanted to do something spectacular and do something outdoors,” Cross says.
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