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“I’ve done a lot of different forms of
meditation in the last year.”
Jessa Rhodes envisioned a fight for survival in the year 2419 for her upcoming
web series Fury Rhodes. Then she added a sexy twist.
Rhodes not only performs in the episodic drama that will debut this summer on her
official website, JessaRhodes.com, she is also the executive producer and director.
At press time in April she had the first two episodes in post-production.
“It’s a takeoff of my name and Mad Max: Fury Road,” Rhodes explains, referring
to the action/adventure film from 2015 that won Academy Awards for production
design, costumes and editing. “It’s from the same time period in the same setting.
We’re just different characters in that world. … The quality of it is insane.”
A native of Oregon who is in her eighth year in adult entertainment and recently
moved from Las Vegas to Miami, Rhodes worked closely with rising videographer
Chris Alessandra on the production that was shot with a RED digital cinema camera
somewhere deep in the Mohave Desert. Abigail Mac and Damon Dice—a pair of
seasoned fan-favorite performers—co-star with Rhodes in the first episode in which
the girls go in search of food and water and end up devouring Dice before leaving
him stranded.
“We fuck him and rip him off,” Rhodes says with a grin. “So it leaves the whole
thing open for a bunch of other storylines.”
Rhodes donned many hats for the project, coming up with all the wardrobe herself,
not to mention spearheading several other pre-production duties.
“It was an extremely stressful couple days, but we all nailed it,” she tells AVN.
Once the series rolls out Rhodes plans to unveil a new episode bi-weekly.
Meanwhile, she says she has focused a lot of energy on maintaining positive
mental health as she embarks on this new phase of her career.
“I’ve done a lot of different forms of meditation in the last year,” she says. “I’ll sit
quietly with myself and not think about anything and just focus on breathing. Other
times I’ll focus on something specifically. … And journaling a lot has been a very
rewarding thing for me.”
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