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“Actually almost all the clothes and the jewelry I’m wearing in this are mine.” - Maya Woulfe
On a bright spring day in a very industrial-looking downtown L.A. loft, reigning AVN Director of the Year Ricky Greenwood is staging the opening and closing bookends of his forthcoming Adult Time period piece Grinders.
It may seem a bit disconcerting (for those of us who were well into adulthood at the time, anyway) to conceive of a movie set in 1999 as a “period piece,” but facts are facts: the oldest of the cast members on hand for the day’s shoot were in their early teens at most then. The majority were infants.
Anyone who does remember those pre-9/11 days vividly will surely feel a wash of nostalgia from the intricately spot-on art direction by AVN Hall of Famer Kylie Ireland, who conjured up everything from of-the-era computer monitors and cell phones to VHS players and even (in a delightfully cheeky bit of insider Easter-egg- dom) posters of herself from her heyday as one of the biggest stars of that “second Golden Age” for adult.
One thing for which Ms. Ireland can not take credit, however, is the garb donned by female lead Maya Woulfe—a perfectly bohemian/grunge combo of plaid yellow Capri pants and a black top bearing an illustration of a disembodied ribcage.
“Actually almost all the clothes and the jewelry I’m wearing in this are mine,” Woulfe divulges to us. “Ricky actually sent me a picture of these pants, and I was like, ‘I own those.’”
At the same time, while she may own the clothes, she most decidedly does not own the hair—a matted, dirty-blonde wig that she explains “took like three hours of us finessing it to get it right.” She quickly adds, “We’re jumping in the pool with it tomorrow, so it’s gonna be interesting.”
During a break from shooting dialogue to snap outdoor stills of Woulfe and her lead male co-star Lucky Fate, Greenwood reveals some of the details of Grinders’ storyline, painting a broad-strokes portrait of what comes across as a Richard Linklater-esque indie romance set in the skater community and unfolding over the course of a day ... specifically, the day of New Year’s Eve heading into the year 2000.
Though he concurs with the Linklater comparison (we’re thinking a sort of Slacker- meets-Before Sunrise amalgam), Greenwood says he was influenced in conceiving
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