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“I knew it would be a good space to tell this kind of story and to feature our ambassadors
in the leads.”
The set location is just over the hill from Hollywood, at a large, relatively secluded mid-century home in a desirable suburban neighborhood where it’s not uncommon to see a film production crew working at a rented house. Ventura Boulevard and a large CBS Television production facility are nearby.
In the driveway of this house was a neatly stocked van full of all the equipment you need to light and shoot a high-end adult movie—in this case, it’s Breadcrumbs, the first feature-length production directed by Adult Time’s Bree Mills for legacy adult label Wicked Pictures.
Yes—that Wicked, the one that went viral amidst the publicity behemoth behind the November release of Universal Studio’s film adaptation of the Broadway play of the same name (starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo), which saw the adult studio’s website address accidentally printed on the packaging of merchandise from the PG- rated musical.
“Even though Wicked Pictures is a stand-alone studio, it’s not a full Adult Time studio, but we do have a channel partnership—like, we have a Wicked channel at Adult Time, and it’s still within Gamma Films which I’m the president of, so—I basically knocked on the team’s door and said, ‘I want to make a Wicked movie this year,’ and they said, ‘Okay.’ I knew it would be a good space to tell this kind of story and to feature our ambassadors in the leads,” Mills explained to AVN on the set for Breadcrumbs.
It seems apropos that Mills, also the chief creative officer at mega-platform Adult Time, brings her narrative style to the legendary video brand, which built its legacy on scripted adult movies that were available primarily on late-night cable TV (i.e., Cinemax) and hotel and motel pay-per-view menus in the ‘90s heyday of “Skin-a-Max.”
In Breadcrumbs, “Charlotte [played by Lexi Luna] and Max [Seth Gamble] are married high school sweethearts who have settled into a family life that outwardly seems fulfilling. But inside, Charlotte grapples with her sexual identity and her true desires, while Max feels increasingly unseen and disconnected from his wife. Charlotte’s doubts intensify during a girls’ weekend with a group of other mothers. She meets Lucy [Siri Dahl], an outgoing lesbian, and they quickly bond. Charlotte is drawn into an affair, experiencing emotions and a connection she hadn’t anticipated.”
“So, Seth, Siri, and Lexi are all Adult Time ambassadors,” Mills said. “I knew from having worked with Lexi—I had a pretty good idea on subject matter that would be interesting to her, and I knew that she definitely had a lead actress in her, I just needed the right project.”
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