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“I always try to understand everybody.”
Briana Moon always had a love for the movies. By the time she graduated college she was ready
to embark on an acting career. But having seen firsthand the challenges actors face in her native
Russia, she found herself reassessing her career choices and soon found herself on a porn set in
Mexico ready to take on two guys at once.
“I found an advertisement online to shoot porn in Mexico and I was learning Spanish, and I wanted
to practice Spanish with someone,” she said. “So I felt, okay, I can travel to Mexico, shoot porn,
make money and learn Spanish. It’s perfect.”
Although she knew nothing about how porn is made, or how much performers got paid, the
comely blonde arrived on set for the Legal Porno shoot she agreed to do a double penetration.
“I didn’t know what a DP was, I knew anal, because I did anal in my personal life. But it was like,
they said ‘okay we’ll do this and this’ and I was having fun, but I never had dick in my pussy and
another in my ass, but I learned very fast.”
During the same trip, she shot her second scene—a double anal, before heading home and
getting her porn career in high gear in Europe. She would go on to shoot for Private, Digital Sin,
MetArt, Fitness Rooms and others before meeting veteran stud and AVN Hall of Fame member
Marco Banderas in Prague, Czech Republic in 2016.
The two quickly hit it off and by the end of the year they were married as they also joined forces
in several shoots in Europe.
Despite being 19 while Banderas was 49, Moon and her new husband were inseparable and
helped support one another at each other’s shoots.
“I was young and I just started in the industry and he already had a good career here in L.A.” she
recalled. “So when I met him, I was very impressed with his attitude and he was very charismatic
and I wanted to be like him.”
She soon threw herself into the industry by tapping her creative side by showing her enthusiasm
and ability to connect with her partners with ease. Having learned English while in school, she was
able to understand European directors and performers while also practicing her English as she and
her husband traveled back and forth between their homebase in Spain and the rest of Europe.
But as her career flourished, she and Banderas began growing apart.
Today, the buxom blonde, is enjoying single life while continuing her porn career after having
divorced last year. With a home in Spain and investment properties in Europe and Asia, Moon
sees herself as more of an entrepreneur than an adult star.
“Sometimes I like spending money on something I really like or makes me happy, but I don’t buy
something expensive just to look cool or if I like a good car, I have a normal car in Spain. I could
buy a more expensive car, but why? I don’t need this. I don’t need to prove anything to anybody.”
As for the lessons she’s learned from her time in the industry, Moon was clear about the benefits
of positivity on set. “I don’t judge anyone. I always try to understand everybody. It doesn’t matter
your situation right now because things change very fast,” she said. “So I always like to see the
real person besides the actor or whatever because you can have money right now or be very
successful, but what if you don’t have it tomorrow? Then what? You stay positive.”
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