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“Emotions like jealousy and resentment
creep up, and the more those emotions
start to take over, the impact can lead
you to do things
you would never normally do. ”
never normally do. Not to say that I took the same path that
Daniel does [laughter] but I’ve always remembered the
moment of discovery and the path it took.”
Mills’ scripts are different from the expected: Instead of
scripted dialogue, they present paragraph-long novel-like
descriptions of each scene, with dialogue and business
mixed with reactions and thoughts of the characters,
followed by tech notes on set, costume and props. When
Mills sets up a scene, she explains what she wants to the
performers, detailing motivations and actions, and getting
feedback. For the rehearsal, Seth Gamble is business-
ready in button-down shirt and glasses and Angela White
is topless in pajama pants. “We can only do the shirt gag
twice,” Mills cautions the players. “Save it for the take.”
The sex scene that follows the dialogue scene (with shirt
gag) is capital-D Dramatic: Gamble, playing the angry,
wronged and now-borderline-abusive husband, confronts
and dominates White in a walk-in closet after she finds
some damning evidence. In the closet, the ceiling lights
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have been cloaked with red gels to add a sinister look,
and the small room is crowded with Gamble and White
and two camera ops shooting hard and soft. Mills
watches her monitors in the adjacent bedroom, a few
feet away.
The opening shot moves from the evidence to White’s
reaction, then widens out to show Gamble ominously
framed in the door. He approaches her, pressing his
height advantage. “Do what you want,” she whimpers.
He tells her she should go. She doesn’t. He leans into
her, kisses her, grabs her breasts through her thin tank
top, puts her hand on his crotch. She looks bereft. He
kisses her hard, pulls off his shirt, murmurs something
inaudible, turns her around, starts fucking her from
behind. She endures it. He pants “So good” in her
ear. She’s miserable. Practically weeping. A camera
is assigned to shoot faces. He pulls her leg up, starts
pumping hard. One monitor shows an upshot backlit
by the ceiling light, White’s breasts in the foreground
bobbing with every thrust. “Freeze right there!” Gamble
and White freeze. “Guys, find your shots!” One camera
reframes to get a face-to-face close-up, her upstage
ankle on his shoulder. “Action!” After a moment of
face-to-face Gamble groans unintelligibly, turns White
around. He looks intently at her. One camera catches
their faces, with White betraying the sensation of physical
pleasure but not enjoying it. He pulls her arms back; she
grimaces. Water break. “It’s hot in there!” White says,
fanning herself as she steps into the cool bedroom.
Mills sets the scene’s finale with the camera ops
and after a few minutes and a couple of water bottles
Gamble and White head back into the closet and take
their positions. Mills calls “Action” redundantly; they’ve
already started. Taking Gamble from behind, White
still has that I-don’t-like-the-pleasure grimace. She
turns around and drops to her knees to finish him off.
“Any time,” Mills says. She has enough establishing
footage now. His breathing becomes short and he pops
across her face. Still in character, she looks at him,
apprehensive. He leans down to kiss her—but doesn’t.
He struts out of the closet. She looks angry and starts to
wipe the jizz away and holds ... “CUT!”
Relieved, White gets up with a laugh and heads to the
shower. There’s a lot to wash off after that scene.
Mills will release Perspective in September on the
AdultTime.com platform.