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SEPTEMBER REIGN
NAMED X-PLAY’S FIRST EVER ‘ACTRESS OF THE YEAR’
September Reign received the X-Play Actress of the Year award for her dramatic performance in Adam & Eve Pictures’ Love, Sex & Music. This marks the debut of the award, which is an accolade that director Will Ryder and producer Scott David have been planning for the past three years.
“Ever since COVID hit, we were thinking of creating an early accolade intended to honor actors both male and female, that have excelled in our movies,” Ryder stated. “Some companies give out ’girl of the month’ awards. We decided on ’actress of the year’ for our company.”
X-Play produces features for companies including Adam & Eve Pictures and its production of Love, Sex & Music. Written and directed by Ryder, and starring Reign, Love, Sex & Music tells the story of an aspiring Black singer/songwriter who moves to Nashville to launch her career in country music but is instead met with racism and corporate greed.
“Show me a better performance this year,” poked Ryder. “September Reign is now among the adult industry’s finest actors and we are proud to honor her with this award.”
With eight years in the adult movie business, the beautiful actress finally received the role she had been waiting for and is now being honored by X-Play.
“I’ve had some nice roles in the past but Dixie, the character I play, had some real depth to her. She was a real person with an impossible battle on her hands,” Reign remarked.
“She’s multi-dimensional and she’s Black, all alone knocking on doors on Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee. She’s such a deep character and it’s as though this movie was made for me. I’m so proud to have teamed up with Will and thankful he had faith in me that I could pull off the role.”
“To be honest, I wasn’t sure what I was going to get with September,” Ryder said. “She had a long résumé of work, but placing an entire feature movie in her hands took a leap of faith on our part and also from Adam & Eve. You have to understand, that if September is not believable in the role of Dixie, the movie dies instantly. It’s that simple.”
“September is very deserving of our premiere award,” co-producer David stated.
“I remember seeing September in Ethnicity from Wicked Pictures some years ago and I’ve always wanted to work with her but sometimes, you need the right script at that perfect moment and this was a collision of fate,” said Ryder.
≠ STORY: ALLEN SMITHBERG
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