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Joanna has been so awesome,” Cessario now effuses of the iconic adult veteran. “She’s a true hustler and I think everything she learned in her career thus far has helped her here. What we’re doing with Joanna’s role and other people that work for us like Joanna is kind of taking a page from the alcohol industry, like a lot of the spirits brands have brand ambassadors who tend to be the people who are friendly with all the bar managers and they get it into the bars and they’re just like the person that everybody likes and they’re down to help you with whatever it is you’re pushing, and I think Joanna fits that really well.”
As far as the conception of “Don’t F*** the Planet” is concerned, Angel says the pieces fell into place rather effortlessly. The idea for the ad having come from Cessario, she relayed, it seemed only natural to her that it be executed by people who actually make porn for a living.
“It was a suggestion I brought up in the first meeting about the project, when people on the call were discussing ‘which production crew to use,’” she said. “They were debating the teams they normally use. I said, ‘Hey, why don’t we use mine?’ Mike agreed right away that it was a great idea.”
The shoot itself, she maintains, “wasn’t all that different” from a standard X-rated one. “There were just a lot more people involved in the pre-production than I was used to, and a handful of extra people on set from the company. It was an absolute honor to show them how professionally and efficiently the porn industry works on set.”
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