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“I’ve always loved writing ever since I was young.”
Like you might expect to see adorning the apartment walls of any typical early-20s Los Angeleno, there’s a piece of instantly identifiable movie kitsch hanging in Jane Wilde’s living room: an arrangement of four squares depicting the silhouettes of John Travolta and Uma Thurman from their iconic Jack Rabbit Slim’s dance-off in Pulp Fiction.
Despite her resigned quip that “I don’t know what I want to put up in my apartment,” her choice of this piece in particular resonates with perhaps a little more significance than one might register at first glance ... in fact, it could be argued that Jane’s entire career approach— her inner driving mantra that’s propelled her as far as she’s gotten since her porn debut now five years ago—is captured in the classic line Thurman’s Mia Wallace utters to Travolta’s Vincent Vega right before the two of them hit that stage: “I wanna dance, I wanna win, I want that trophy.”
Jane now has three AVN trophies to her name thanks to that persistent drive of hers, the third—for Best Trans Group Sex Scene—coming at this year’s AVN Awards Show, in laudation of her climactic no-holds-barred thrasher with 2021’s AVN Transgender Performer of the Year and Male Performer of the Year, Aubrey Kate and Small Hands, in Joanna Angel’s supernatural drama Succubus (which just arrived on DVD, incidentally, should any DVD loyalists care to check it out).
Naturally, Ms. Wilde is anything but content to sit back and lavish in the spoils of her endeavors; no, her fuse is barely yet lit, she says, and the coming year has things in store that will push her horizons in ways people may not be expecting.
In particular, she divulges, she’s working on an autobiographical project about her beginnings in adult work, which had darker underpinnings than she revealed in her newbie days (though she did delve into them during a 2019 appearance on director/photographer Holly Randall’s “Unfiltered” podcast).
“I want people to see it from my perspective, what happened,” she explains. “I was working at a clothing store right after I graduated high school, and I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, but I wasn’t going to college and I didn’t want to work. I was lazy. So I went online and I was looking for jobs that I could do from home, and I found an ad on a website looking for webcam models—I didn’t know what that was. So I answered the ad just to see, because they said, like, ‘Make a thousand dollars a week.’ I was like, ‘That’s a lot of money,’ so I reached out, and then long story short, that ended up with me being in a situation that was kind of inescapable for about a year.”
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