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“It was an absolute joy working
with Ana and the whole Playboy
Plus family on this production.”
A stylish photo spread on the Playboy Plus subscription site features
the debut on that site of longtime adult industry icon Misty Stone—but
the project was history-making for other important reasons as well. The
photo gallery, Misty Stone in Natural Desires, marks the first production
on the Playboy Plus platform to be entirely created by Black talent,
behind the camera as well as in front.
“To be honest, you don’t see a lot of people doing it,” Playboy Director
of Marketing for Subscription Sites Holly Ruprecht told AVN. “I’ve never
heard of a company—and I’ve been in this industry 20 years—doing a
Black makeup artist, Black photographer, Black talent. I’d never heard
of it, so hopefully it’s something more people will jump on and do.”
The production also features the behind-the-camera debut of another
iconic performer, Ana Foxxx, whose outspokenness during the Black
Lives Matter demonstrations in the summer of 2020 gave Ruprecht the
idea to give her carte blanche to create her own project for Playboy Plus.
She picked Foxxx as creative director and producer on the project, and
Foxxx—whom Ruprecht calls “a beautiful person inside and out”—took
it from there, choosing the talent and hiring the entire crew.
She hand-selected the photographer John Taylor, who was one of the
first to shoot Foxxx in her adult modeling career.
One of her most important jobs as producer on the Playboy Plus shoot
was to keep her star happy—to “make Misty have the best day ever.”
And according to Stone, Foxxx succeeded in that department as well.
“It was an absolute joy working with Ana and the whole Playboy Plus
family on this production,” Stone said. “I couldn’t be happier with how
everything turned out. Ana was so easy to work with and professional
and I’m so proud of what we accomplished.”
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