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“I think had I done any other job or been in college
or done anything else I would’ve never had the
growth that I’ve had in porn.”
AVN Hall of Famer Manuel Ferrara agrees. He estimates he shot Dior at least 10 times so far
with more on the way. “As a director and performer, to me she’s like perfect,” Ferrara tells AVN.
“She was like made for porn. She’s beautiful. She loves sex. She’s always happy to be on set.
She’s professional. She shows up on time—all the things that make a director and producer’s
life easy and a performer’s life easy.”
Dior tells AVN she has learned a lot about herself since she started her porn career. “I’m not
competing with other people; I’m competing with myself. I’ve discovered that,” she says. “I want
to be the best I can be. I want to do better than my last scene.”
Dior, who is Italian and Native American and will turn 23 on May 12, says she would not have
gained this much life experience in such a short time in another pursuit.
“I think had I done any other job or been in college or done anything else I would’ve never
had the growth that I’ve had in porn,” Dior says. “It makes you grow up very quickly—deal with
the real world very quickly. I think that’s what I’m most thankful for with porn. You have to have
your shit together.”
Her agent, Mark Spiegler, recalls Dior’s ambition during their phone conversations before
she even got to Los Angeles. “Gianna had a really good chance of doing well,” Spiegler says.
“She’s also really determined.”
He adds, “She listens to advice. She was willing to do what she had to do to do well. She
did specific projects, worked days when she might be tired. She’s totally committed to continue
doing well. She’s like, ‘Put me in, coach. Tell me what to do and I’ll go do it.’”
Dior says she has received a lot of congratulations as news got around of her victories—
she even posted a photo of herself with her trophies on her personal Facebook and Instagram
pages.
“I don’t put anything porn on there really. But I was like I just won two awards. I’m gonna brag
a little,” she says. “So I put it on there, me posing with my awards and me on red carpet, and I
was like ‘I won big at AVN’ and I got a bunch of congratulations. I was surprised. A lot of people
were proud of me. Here I am.”
Dior already is eyeing her next moves.
“I’m hoping to get a feature this year,” she says. “I really want to do one for Deeper. It’s kind
of a far-fetched idea, but I feel like that would really give me a boost up in having a good chance
for Female Performer of the Year. … That’s the goal this year.”
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