Page 64 - AVN January 2019

“I really got to make this
character real.”
Avi Love appeared in almost every scene
of The Possession of Mrs. Hyde, handling each
dramatic turn with poise. But when it was time
to drive director Axel Braun’s Rolls-Royce Dawn
convertible before one of the movie’s most intense
sequences, Love admits she felt the pressure.
“I think that’s what made me the most nervous
was just driving his car,” Love jokes. “We did a
test drive and he was like, ‘Just drive the car!’ I
was like, ‘OK!’ I was driving like a grandma.”
Braun hand-picked the 23-year-old native of
Las Vegas for the biggest role of her career after
being floored by the quality of her video audition.
The former lifeguard at Mandalay Bay tells AVN
as soon as she got word that the Hall of Fame
shot-caller picked her to play Valerie Hyde, she
started practicing her lines with her sisters.
“I just read it over and over and over again so I
could understand the character and really portray
who she is,” Love says. “I love being in front of the
camera and I love performing.”
During the climactic sex scene, Valerie sees
her mother (Reagan Foxx) get double-teamed by
Ramon Nomar and Alex Legend, while Mr. Hyde
(Seth Gamble) forces her to watch.
She reveals that her tussle with Gamble was “a
lot of ad lib.” Love says. “He made it easy for me
because I could just respond to him.”
Love, who got two AVN Award nods for her
performance—Best Actress and Best Boy/Girl
Sex Scene (with Nomar)—says Mrs. Hyde tops
her industry experiences. “This movie has really
brought my career to the next level,” she says.
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