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The cast of Rocco Siffredi Hard Academy: Women Edition includes Moon Comelaluna, Lia Orellana, Candee Licious, Amy Douxxx, Shelena, Eva Generosi and Coyote Cutee, with appearances by Aaron Rock, Erik Everhard, Master Giacon—a BDSM expert coach—and Kelly Stafford.
Siffredi explains he now works for his 27-year-old son Lorenzo, who has been running his multimedia porn empire.
“I almost don’t make any more decisions. I follow completely and I trust his point of view,” Rocco says. “Movies become the same and you have to move on. We have to move on. Since my passion is always there, I try to put all my knowledge on his point of view. He’s of course not a pornographer like I am. I’m born for this like John Stagliano, Joey Silvera, John Leslie... But he really does love porn like me and he has a vision.
“He’s been working around me for five years and he has a vision and I trust so much his vision. It makes me improve. He has a vision of what will be the future.”
Rocco says Lorenzo believes in live streaming and maintaining the fun aspect of the job.
“He likes also very much the interaction,” Siffredi says. “You can watch the movie and be part of the movie from home. You can decide how to interact in the movie and give direction. It’s one of the reasons you pay to see what you want to see, a little bit like webcam.”
Lorenzo, whose new LTX cryptocurrency was prominently featured in the academy, also led the videography for Siffredi’s boxing epic, The Spanish Stallion.
Rocco indicated that Shelena, who is from Sicily, won the first women’s academy.
“She was incredible,” he says. “She was natural in a way that she didn’t know what she wanted to do. She was the most fresh one.
“She was chosen as the winner for the 10 days of the progression, going through the progression in a way that was beautiful with the way she approach it and the way she wanted to be.”
He says that immediately after winning she received several booking offers from studios such as Vixen in Europe.
Since Siffredi and his cast all spoke Italian, he notes the movie will include English subtitles. But he says the next edition could be more of an international affair with girls from different countries.
“They talk so much about this in Italy, like how come so many Italian girls move into porn?” Rocco says.
“Because we decide to do an academy which really have social media impact we decide to go live every morning in YouTube, in Twitch and Instagram and Facebook. “And then in the evening all together we do a podcast live where we were talking
about what we did doing during the day.”
The show will be rolled out in five episodes with a double-disc DVD coming later.
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