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“Bree has believed in me from the very beginning, before I even ever thought that I could do something like this.”
—Jane Wilde
“It was such a surreal experience to actually have it play out in front of me and to relive these experiences,” Jane Wilde reflected during a break on the last day of shooting her own autobiographical drama, Stars, arriving at the end of this month from Adult Time.
Those experiences, as viewers will see play out, involved the fresh-out-of-high- school Jane—albeit slightly fictionalized here as “Julia”—seeking out work in adult and getting trapped in the clutches of a nefarious character named Kevin, played with sinister aplomb by three-time AVN Best Actor Seth Gamble. Fitting the “suitcase pimp” mold to a T—and distinctly calling to mind James Franco’s Alien character from Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers—Kevin operates a less-than-up-and-up webcamming outfit he strong-arms Julia into working for over a stretch of roughly a year.
Wilde first brought the idea for Stars to Adult Time chief creative officer Bree Mills early this year, and Mills was immediately on board with it. “Bree has believed in me from the very beginning, before I even ever thought that I could do something like this,” Wilde recalled. “So when I came to her with this idea and wanting to do this, I told her my reasoning was kind of almost selfish—I said it’s not something I want to do for the fans, it’s something I want to do for myself, and also for people that may be in a similar situation that could relate to this—and she totally just understood it. I didn’t have to explain myself. She’s been on my page the entire fucking time.”
Mills wholeheartedly confirmed as much, recounting, “When we had the meeting, she told me her story, which is more or less what we’ve captured in this film, and I knew bits and pieces of it because I know she had spoken to me about it just candidly in the past, but I didn’t know the full scope of the story. But she told me the story and then she told me she had a very clear vision for how we could make it, and by the end of that meeting I just knew it was the right thing to do.”
The multiple AVN Award-winning director said Wilde’s story struck a certain common chord she was eager to relay. “I’ve heard shades of that story from so many different performers,” Mills imparted, “including my own partner (retired performer Sara Luvv), who had a somewhat similar entry into the adult industry, and so it struck me as being not only relatable to people in our industry, but also just relatable to
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