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“I wanted to be a movie star since I was very young, and I wanted to impress people...”
The situation in question, she elaborates, involved her being “manipulated by a man much older than me, and although I was technically a legal adult, I don’t feel like I had the maturity level to understand that I was being manipulated. I thought he was helping me.
“People who groom have a very specific way of doing it,” she continues. “They kind of, like, wrap themselves all into your world while not letting you in their world at all. So they have all the power.”
During that year, she says, “I learned a lot, I grew a lot, and I felt like when that whole situation ended, I had a decision ... I can either abandon sex work and just say I failed, I wasn’t able to do it, and just have this fear for the rest of my life that it’s gonna affect me negatively—because that’s what everyone says, right? That’s the stigma, ‘Oh, you can’t have a real job now.’ But then I was like, ‘Do I even want a real job? I don’t know what I want.’
“But I did feel like, I’m already in the sex industry, so I could either abandon it and leave, or I could try something else and see if that works. And luckily ... thankfully ... it worked.”
That “something else,” of course, was traditional studio porn, and in the grand scheme of things, it’s little surprise Jane took to it like a proverbial fish to water, seeing as how, as she recalls, “I wanted to be a movie star since I was very young, and I wanted to impress people. I think that’s something that’s always been a part of me, is this feeling like I just want to impress people and make people entertained.”
In high school, she says, that manifested itself in the forms of both a deep interest in writing and heavy involvement with her school’s drama program, two things she’s now carried into her chosen profession. In the case of the latter, what she picked up no doubt played a part in helping her land the two AVN acting nominations she’s received—first for Supporting Actress in 2019’s Better Things to Do from Digital Playground, and then for Leading Actress this year in Succubus—and on the former count, she’s tapped her writerly side in a pair of instances as well: with the 2018 Pure Taboo featurette Cutting the Cord: A Jane Wilde Story, and with the current untitled project she’s developing about her entrée into porn.
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