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Asked how this movie compares to Machine Gunner scale-wise, he submits, “It’s a little bit different. The thing is, Machine Gunner was very challenging because we were shooting outside, it was a lot of gunfights and a lot of blanks, and the first time I was working with blanks, with guns, it’s a safety issue that was coming in. And the pressure that I had because it was for my friend [the late Robby D.], so it was a lot different mood and pressure that was on me.
“This one, the story is a little bit simpler,” he continues, “and we don’t have gunfights at all, but we have VFX that I’ve never really done before. So for me, it’s a different challenge. Like later today, Luna [Star] is shooting lasers from her eyes. But I will see nothing, so it’s just reacting to nothing. So it’s a lot of things that are out of my control, that the VFX people are doing. At some point, Luna is all burned and she heals herself. So for me, I did the burning effect, and I did the not-burning effect, and now they have to blend them together to create her kind of healing herself.”
In case there’s any question as to what Star’s role is in the movie, yes, she plays the alien at the center of it all ... or “The Entity,” as the character is officially named.
Seeing that she happens to be on-hand in the nearby makeup room, we corner the 2024 AVN Awards co-host to get her take on depicting an extraterrestrial.
For the burned-up effect Greenwood spoke of, Star reveals that she spent a grueling amount of time having special prosthetic makeup applied.
“The first day took like four hours,” she says. “And then we tried to keep the same pieces for the second time, so it can be continuity, so we did like two hours yesterday. But it was super cool. It was amazing.”
As to her general feelings about the role itself, she cracks, “I’m very excited, because I think it goes with me very well, because I think I’m an alien. I’m very out of this world.”
Jokes aside, she continues, “I think it’s amazing. One of my favorite movies of all time is The Fifth Element, and it’s kind of the same idea. ... I think it’s an amazing storyline, and I can’t wait to see the effects. It’s gonna be super fun. It’s definitely a super fun project, and I’m super excited.”
Also in the room presently—in fact, sitting in one of the makeup chairs waiting to get hers done—is yet another AVN Hall of Famer, none other than Monique Alexander.
This being one of her first appearances in front of studio cameras since pre- COVID—the only other being the star-studded “20 for 20” orgy scene released by Brazzers earlier this summer in commemoration of its 20th anniversary—we’re naturally inclined to find out how closely this experience resembles what she remembers from those bygone days before the rise of OnlyFans.
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