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“So we go to the testing, which is new to me, right? I mean, when I quit, I think you went to a doctor and got HIV once every 30 days. And Vivid paid for it. I never went to AIM, I would always go to my own gynecologist. But anyway, we meet, they fucking, you know, put a swab up my butt, down my throat, they stick a needle in my arm, I have to piss in a cup. I’m like, ‘Holy shit, this is amazing! Like, I feel safe.’”
And thus, 􏰀hristy 􏰀anyon’s first collab came to fruition. A couple months later, she would do another with fellow (albeit much more recently inducted) Hall of Famer Keiran Lee.
“I was like, ‘Fuck, I forgot how great porn sex is!’” she exclaimed. “I forgot how much fun it is. And the thing is, I’ve never left the business. I did di􏰁erent things, whether it was 􏰂layboy 􏰃adio, 􏰄ivid 􏰃adio, this, that and the other. It’s not like, 􏰅􏰆h my god, she’s been gone for 20 years.’ 􏰇o, I’ve always been here. I just, you know, I had a husband, I had a boyfriend—because I don’t mix business with boyfriends, because that’s always a slippery fucking slope—and suddenly I’m single, and I feel like a teenager again. I don’t know, guys at midlife crisis get red Corvettes, I’m making porn again.”
It wasn’t long until yet another Hall of Famer—Manuel Ferrara—came knocking about arranging a collab. “Then two minutes later, Kayden Kross calls me,” Canyon disclosed. “She’s like, ‘My husband just told me that you’re kind of doing shoots again. Will you talk to me about working for MILFY?’”
She told Kross she was really only interested in creating content for her own sites.
“I said, ‘I’m not really doing it for the money ... I’m doing it because it’s this, like, teenager coming out again in me.’ And she’s like, 􏰅􏰈ust meet me. 􏰈ust come to the o􏰉ce and meet me.’
“And her and [Vixen casting director] Mike Moz and I sat down, and she’s like, ‘Listen ... this is what we’re gonna pay you. I want you to do a scene for MILFY. Then I want to put you in our big- budget production for the year. So you’re gonna do three sex scenes.’ She’s like, ‘Trust me, it’ll bring you tra􏰉c, you’ll love it. 􏰊ou thought 􏰄ivid had great production􏰋 Wait ’til you’re on my set.’
“And I’m like, ‘Why not?’”
Bold though Kross’ claim may have been, she was not telling tall tales, as Canyon would soon learn.
“Let me tell you ... that was the best production value porn I have ever been on,” she reported.
While granting that “it was always tops in the ’90s with Vivid,” she described the set of American MILF as an e􏰌perience of a whole di􏰁erent caliber.
“You just stood there, and they dressed you from head to toe, they put on the earrings, the necklaces, the fake wedding rings,” she said. “It was a two-week shoot, I think I worked eight days. Twelve-hour days. They spent si􏰌 hours on a non-se􏰌 scene where we’re all riding 􏰂elotons.
“I felt proud to be a part of this. It brought back that good old-school feeling where companies cared about their work. I’m proud and I’m honored that I was part of that set.”
She went on to heap praise on director Kross.
“􏰍ayden 􏰍ross is ... where was she during the fucking 􏰂.T. 􏰎􏰂aul Thomas􏰏 days􏰋 􏰂robably in high school,” Canyon quipped. “She’s the best. She’s unbelievable. The crew is amazing. There isn’t one thing I would change.”
􏰍ross returned the adulation, telling A􏰄􏰇, “􏰀hristy ended up being such a delightful surprise􏰐 I knew she was funny from her radio work, but seeing her in action on our sets was such a treat. It was hard to get through the takes without laughing, and we ended up using so much more of her footage than we had planned on because her timing and looks are so good. Fans have loved her comeback and I can’t wait to work with her again!”
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