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“This year, I find that the themes for my movies have been about parents...”
“I’m bisexual personally, but in my real life, I’ve had a lot of experiences where I was the first woman with another woman for the first time,” Dahl shared. “And it does require a little extra... it’s a vulnerable thing for anyone to have a first-time experience, so I think that will play really well.”
Beyond being somewhat typecast as a “confident lesbian,” she said she enjoys scripted content.
“I love getting to learn a character and do more dramatic work with acting,” Dahl described. “The industry’s a little different than it was when I started over ten years ago, and the industry does change over time, but we don’t get as many dramatic, scripted projects as we did back then, so that is one of the things I really look forward to is doing these more dramatic projects—especially if Bree is directing because she’s really collaborative. She knows how to bring out a natural performance from everyone, and it just makes everything so much better.”
It could be argued that adult movie scripts also have evolved over the last couple of decades since Wicked produced light-hearted fare like Operation Desert Stormy (2007, AVN 2008 Best Sex Comedy) or 2014’s supernatural thriller Underworld. As the popularity of parodies has faded and campy vignettes have become fare for clip sites and content creators, a new era of adult filmmakers, like Mills, have used the genre to take a different angle on what sparks eroticism, pushing the boundaries of where art imitates life. Mills said that, lately, a lot of her work has reflected her concepts around parenthood and sexuality.
“This year, I find that the themes for my movies have been about parents—and topical because that’s the era I’m in personally, kind of dealing with the idea of becoming parents with a lot of other dysfunctional things happening,” Mills said.
“It’s such a relatable story that anyone who is a parent and in a relationship understands,” she added, “but you never see that in an adult film, obviously because, unless you’re talking about a stepmother, you don’t want to talk about parents as a subject. But being an adult, and a parent, and in a relationship is extremely important to talk about because it’s extremely relatable. That was one of the inspirations behind telling this story and not shying away from the fact that they are parents. You obviously never see their son, but he’s very much in the story, and even in the perspectives we brought into certain moments, it’s important to talk about what it’s like being a physical, sexual adult and being a parent.”
Breadcrumbs, starring Luna, Gamble, Dahl, Melissa Stratton, Emma Hix, August Skye, Charlie Forde, Kenna James, and Charlotte Stokely, will be available in mid-December at Wicked.com and Adult Time’s platform.
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