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“It was definitely cool to step out of my typical box of just being a down and dirty slut.” —Chanel Camryn
It’s been four long years since Adult Time produced a feature under its Girlsway banner ... and since triple-threat adult power player Casey Calvert directed for the Gamma Entertainment-owned porn goliath.
As it happens, those two points of fact are inextricably connected, as the last Girlsway feature, 2020’s Cougar Queen: A Tiger King Parody, was a Calvert-helmed endeavor (alongside partner and frequent co-director Eli Cross). And it was no ordinary one, at that.
Because Cougar Queen was shot just after the onset of COVID, Calvert reminds us during a break on the last night of lensing her new Girlsway drama Spun, the entire production had to be executed via—that’s right—Zoom.
“I actually—not joking—learned a lot about directing doing Cougar,” Calvert recollects. “Trying to do things via Zoom and talk to people about where their lights are set up and where their cameras are set up when I can’t be in the room and point to stuff and move stuff around, it was hard. That movie was hard. And actually ... you know, it’s Adult Time’s fifth anniversary and they’ve been promoting all their stuff, and they promoted Cougar Queen, and I went back and I looked at it and I was like, ‘You know ... not bad! Not bad for the limitations. We kinda did a thing, and it kind of holds up.’”
It was an impressive enough thing to earn her and Cross the 2021 AVN Award for Best Directing – Comedy. And since then, she’s of course continued to hone her craft immeasurably, cultivating a formidable and singular style that garners perpetual acclaim and is sure to inform Spun—as well as set it apart as an entirely different outing from Cougar Queen ... and not just because of there being no Zoom involved.
In fact, judging by the premise, Spun sounds as though it’s likely to hew much more closely to producer Bree Mills’ 2020 AVN Movie of the Year clincher Teenage Lesbian. As Calvert describes it, “Spun is based around a birthday party and a game of playing Spin the Bottle, but it’s also a story about an unrequited crush and being outed by your sister as being gay.”
She goes on to explain that main character Maggie—portrayed by reigning AVN Best New Starlet Chanel Camryn—is home from college for the summer and “decided that it would be fun to have all her high school friends come over for a slumber party like they did when they were kids.”
To her chagrin, Calvert expounds, “Maggie’s high school crush Morgan, played by Freya Parker, brings her girlfriend, played by Maya Woulfe. Maggie tries to be a good sport about it, but it gets to her, and her and Morgan fight about it. And then Maggie’s sister outs her to all her friends as being gay. She’s been gay for a long time, she just hasn’t told all of her friends.”
From there, naturally, shenanigans ensue.
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