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Producing adult entertainment isn’t all glamour and air conditioning. Sometimes, it’s a hot August day in Chatsworth and the set location is in one of the aging industrial parks that sprawl across the San Fernando Valley.
There was no clue the securely fenced warehouse space was being used as a filmin􏰀 location. 􏰁nside the nondescript 􏰂uildin􏰀, half the warehouse was packed with various props and miscellaneous stuff, while the set space was built out like an office interior􏰃work desks with computers, plain walls with a clock, office chairs, and a bulletin board with calendar and motivational mottos printed out on copy paper.
Off-camera, a couch where a few crew were sitting, drinking bottled water and hoping to catch a cool breeze off one of at least ten electric fans that churned the air. Dee Williams and Gal Ritchie, the two actresses on set that day, were dressed in office attire􏰃and, somehow, not 􏰂reakin􏰀 a sweat􏰃waitin􏰀 for the action to resume.
Director Ricky Greenwood conferred with his cameraman and assistant about the blocking for the next scene. A sex scene had been shot earlier in the morning when it wasn’t so hot, so the rest of the day was all dialogue scenes for the Pure Taboo feature Simulation.
􏰄􏰁 think the last feature they did was with 􏰅ommy a few years a􏰀o􏰃Anne in 2018. That was the last one they did, and after that, they haven’t done a feature. So, this is the first one in a lon􏰀 time,􏰆 􏰇reenwood told 􏰈􏰉N.
􏰊e referred to 􏰈􏰉N 􏰊all of 􏰋amer 􏰅ommy 􏰌istol, a re􏰀ular in 􏰇reenwood’s productions and who was on set that day. 􏰁t turns out 􏰇reenwood was a fan of Pistol long before starting his career as a sought-after multi-award-winning indie adult director. The veteran performer was shocked when Greenwood confessed that the first adult movie he ever purchased was Burnin􏰀 􏰈n􏰀el’s horror comedy Re􏰍 Penetrator (2004), starring Pistol.
“Re-Penetrator was my third scene,􏰆 􏰌istol recalled with a nostal􏰀ic wince. 􏰄􏰎e shot that in 􏰌hilly with 􏰏oanna 􏰐􏰈n􏰀el􏰑.􏰆
The kitschy adult parody of the 1985 horror movie Re-Animator must have planted a seed in youn􏰀 􏰇reenwood’s mind. 􏰊e started e􏰒perimentin􏰀 with adult film shorts in 2008 (under the name Olaf Svenson), eventually making his feature directorial debut as Greenwood in 2017 with Confessions of a Sinful Nun for Mile High Media. Since then, he’s racked up hundreds of directorial credits and dozens of industry award nominations. He made his directorial debut in 2017 with Confessions of a Sinful Nun for Mile High Media. Since then, he’s racked up hundreds of directorial credits and several industry awards. 􏰁n 􏰏anuary, he was awarded the 􏰈􏰉N 􏰈ward for Best 􏰓irectin􏰀 􏰌ortfolio􏰃Cross􏰍􏰇enre. 􏰇reenwood also accepted the 􏰈􏰉N 􏰇rand Reel trophy in 2024, for the second time in a row, for Digital Playground’s Machine Gunner.
􏰌istol was also the star of 􏰇reenwood’s holiday horror􏰍themed short film in 202􏰔, The Bargain, for 􏰈dult 􏰅ime, which raised the director’s profile with a se􏰒 scene that paired starlet 􏰈shley 􏰕ane􏰃made up as mytholo􏰀ical Christmas monster 􏰖rampus􏰃and 􏰌istol.
􏰄􏰈fter we did 􏰖rampus, 􏰁 think that’s when a lot chan􏰀ed for him. Bein􏰀 it was a
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