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“I had a great first impression of Willow
because she had veteran confidence on her
first day.”
—Isiah Maxwell
“I had a friend who was a producer in Tennessee who called me and said, ‘I have the perfect
girl for you,’” Berke tells AVN. “He called me with Willow on the phone and we arranged for her
to go to Arizona to shoot her first scene and then she came to Florida and she lived here at the
model house for a little while.
“She was always wonderful. She was always focused on what she wanted to do and had a
great attitude and wanted to be successful. She wasn’t going to stop at anything.”
Berke adds, “We were able to not fuck up perfection, that’s the best way to describe it. We
always knew she could be a star and we put the right pieces of the puzzle together and they
fit and she blew up.”
Ryder says her first scene for ExploitedCollegeGirls in Arizona was with Isiah Maxwell, the
seasoned stud who won the 2024 AVN Male Performer of the Year award.
“I felt like it went really good,” says Willow, who now resides in southeastern Florida and makes
regular trips to the West Coast. “From the jump, I’ve always felt super comfortable on camera
because I’ve always liked being on camera, being the star. I remember the director asking me,
‘Are you nervous at all?’ And I’m like, ‘No, not really.’ I just felt super confident.”
Maxwell noticed the swag.
“I had a great first impression of Willow because she had veteran confidence on her first day,”
Isiah, the popular native of Cleveland, Ohio, who started his porn career in 2011, tells AVN.
“Most new talent needs direction, but she picked it up fast and knows what she wants. It was
obvious to me she was in control of her journey to her destination—which is the top.”
Ryder returned home after that first scene, waited a few months and then moved to Florida
to dig in. Her second scene was an anal outing with Mitt Aziani for Backroom Casting Couch,
which is part of the Arizona-based ExploitedX Network.
“I actually I had a good feeling that anal would do well for me only because I have a nice butt
and I know how to work it,” Willow admits. “So yeah I did it right out of the gate.”
What makes her anal prowess perhaps more impressive is she only had one experience off
camera before doing it in the movies.
Ryder says it was about six months into her career when she began traveling to LA—and
everything changed.
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