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“I don’t think anything changed internally about what my goals were and what I wanted but definitely I went through a lot of stages.”
And for good reason.
Not only did VMG crown Bardot a Vixen Angel in October in Miami Beach, she also shined as an exclusive contract performer for all their all-girl studio Slayed from 2022-23, not to mention headlined the company’s biggest production of 2023, which accounted for a total of six AVN Awards in January.
“When we’re invested in a performer who we consider family the relationship always goes on and we continue to support them,” VMG casting director and producer, Mike Moz, tells AVN. “You see the artistic work we did on this campaign.
“We could go out and hire a team for a day and pay well over twice what it cost us to do this but there would be very little chance to have the cohesiveness in both the planning and the execution of this kind of production.”
Indeed, there is something about VMG collaborating with Bardot that brings out the best in both. Vanna’s first-ever scene for VMG in 2019—for their Deeper imprint—led to her first AVN Award in 2021 for Best Solo/Tease Performance.
Under the direction of three-time AVN Director of the Year Kayden Kross, Bardot danced for almost six hours in ballet shoes that were a bit too small and then had sex with Kyle Mason on a piano en route to the victory for “Woman,” which was part of the 2020 DVD release Dance for Me.
“That was really the start of my real career,” Bardot says. “That was when things started to pick up and I was like, wow, things are really happening.
“That scene was so near and dear to my heart. I grew up dancing and that was the first dance scene I got to really do. And it came out so well. It was so special to be able to win that one.” In fact all of Vanna’s AVN Awards for scenes so far have come from her performances in
VMG productions.
“I love being with them,” Bardot says. “I’m really proud that I’ve been able to bring home so
many awards for them and they helped me to bring home so many awards for myself.
“I will always continue working with them and striving to do bigger and better things in the
future. It’s going to be really hard to top what we’ve done already.”
The former hair salon assistant, whose six-year anniversary in adult is this month, tells AVN
so much has changed for her since Day 1, when she was 19, wearing braces and unsure if she was going to make it.
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