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Greenwood immediately turned heads in 2017 with Confessions of a Sinful Nun,
his debut film that he later followed with a sequel. Although the storyline is different,
Greenwood revisits that theme in Under the Veil, his latest feature for Missa X which
boasts porn power-hitters such as Pistol, Kenna James, Charlotte Stokely and Helena
Locke in leading roles.
Set in the late 1960s, the movie addresses the once-controversial subject of a female’s
role in the church. Stokely, the tale goes, is a nun who has written a book about a woman’s
inability to ascend into positions of power while offering suggestions on how to help the
situation evolve.
The clergy is not happy about the book, and that worries Stokely’s mother superior
(Locke), who is having an affair with Stokely and fears her lover will be ex-communicated.
Locke blinds Stokely’s eyes and locks her away in the bowels of the church, where no
one can find her. No one, that is, except for novice nun Kenna James, who sneaks away
to visit Stokely and obtain her notes for her next book, which she vows to help write.
Meanwhile, Pistol, a priest, is up for a promotion in the hierarchy that Locke feels she
deserves, so she uses James to tease him and tempt his taboo desires, hoping he will
succumb and prove himself unfit for the job.
“It’s a great story,” Pistol says, “but it’s very complex. Ricky has been wanting to do
something about the priesthood for a while now. He’s in his element and I’m in mine.
“Everyone is being pushed a lot, but Ricky is holding it all together. We can all see that
he’s on top of his game, and we’re following him. You want to follow a leader who leads—
not someone who is questioning everything and panicking and wasting time.”
Greenwood’s fascination with subject matter involving church and religion started long
before he entered the adult industry. He’s done extensive study on Nunsploitation, a
subgenre of exploitation film that created a stir in Europe in the 1970s. Most commonly,
the films centered around Christian nuns living in convents in the Middle Ages, and the
conflicts in each film involved religious or sexual oppression due to living in celibacy.
Greenwood said one of his favorite films of all-time is The Devils, a tale about a 17th-
century priest accused of witchcraft. The movie was so explicit that it was banned in
multiple countries. Greenwood has the poster from the film hanging in his living room.
He enjoys tackling controversial subjects.
“I like to push boundaries,” Greenwood says. “I always put more and more in each
movie to see where the limits are.”
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