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“I love acting. ... It’s fun to
play a challenging role.”
After her first year as an active adult performer, Danni
Rivers is opening a new chapter at age 19: she wants to
act more in adult productions.
Rivers is credited with 70 scenes in IAFD.com and she
was nominated for a 2019 AVN Award for Best Virtual
Reality Sex Scene for “Taming the Sphinx” for the VR
site WankzVR.com. “That scene was pretty cool, with my
bestie Rosalyn Sphinx and Damon Dice.”
She has a background in acting, dating back to her
childhood: “I’ve been doing drama classes since I was a
little kid. My parents would put me into these activities to
keep me busy, because I was very energetic. Now I just
play off of that. I did minor roles and behind-the-scenes
in school and I also sang in choir, so the stage is not an
unfamiliar place to me.”
Though she hasn’t taken classes, Rivers says, “I love
acting. I like being in character. Sometimes I get to be
my typical self, happy, kind; but then I get to be the exact
opposite, which I never do because that’s not me. It’s fun
to play a challenging role. … But you have to tone down
the sex when you’re acting because you can keep it real,
like it actually would be. No crazy killing-my-back upside-
down twisted positions. Nobody does that in everyday life,
unless they’re feeling experimental.”
Rivers was preparing to play the lead in a new production
with Jacky St. James for Sweet Sinner when she spoke
with AVN. “She’s trying to push me, but I enjoy the push,”
Rivers says. “Pretty much all my leads have been with
Jacky. I like to think my acting skills are okay, but there’s
room for improvement. She’s pushing those boundaries.
I’m on every single page of this script.” (Pictured: Rivers in
The Girls Next Door, out now from Sweet Sinner.)
Rivers says her ideal role is “bad-ass. ... Kill Bill is my all-
time favorite movie. Quentin Tarantino is my man. If I could
get a character like Uma Thurman, that would be so fun.”
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