Page 67 - AVN Magazine February 2025

“She would be fucking horrified that I was pregnant in a porn,” Casey said. “I love
you so much, Mom, rest in peace… Thank you AVN, thank you so much!”
Backstage, Calvert recounted when she first heard about the project from Mills.
“Bree called me up and said I want you to play a pregnant female, so I said, ‘Fuck
yes, let’s do it, can the prosthetic be heavy?’ She was like, ‘Fuck yeah, let’s go,’”
Casey said. “It was incredibly physical. It took two hours to put the prosthetic on
every day. It took an hour-and-a-half to take the prosthetic off.
“I couldn’t really eat while I was wearing it because it was like being pregnant. It
pressed on my stomach. I had to pee a million times.
“I puked in this movie, I peed in this movie, I cried in this movie, I had a lot of sex
in this movie…”
Wearing a sleek black pants suit with gold sparkles, she told AVN all her experience
behind the camera now makes her a better actress.
“It’s made me so much more camera aware,” Calvert said. “Directing has taught
me so much about what looks good on camera, what doesn’t look good on camera,
how to open up, how to emote, kind of everything.”
Her stage name was inspired by her college professor, Clay Calvert, whom she
keeps in touch with to this day.
“And he’s going to be very excited,” Casey said. “If he hasn’t texted me already I
will be getting a text message from him soon. He’s a really good dude.”
Veteran performer Chad Alva captured the Best Leading Actor award for his career-
defining performance in Alive, the erotic musical from Dorcel that was directed by
Ricky Greenwood.
Alva, who toured the country with his heavy metal band before beginning his porn
career 16 years ago, plays a former country music star who returns to the stage
to try to save his bar in the terrific movie that also showcased the real-life musical
talents of Victoria Voxxx and Queenie Sateen.
The native of Minneapolis, Minn., said he had a feeling that Alive could turn into
something special before they began principal photography.
“And the fact that Ricky is a big music fan himself there’s something a little deeper
there than the average surface level music fan,” Alva told AVN in the winners circle.
“He saw something a little deeper and he knows how serious me and Victoria Voxxx
are about music—and Queenie Sateen. And I think there was something almost
spiritual, something deeper there that you can’t really put into words beyond that.
“I think there’s some magic in that.”
And perhaps no one was more happy for Alva than Greenwood.
“Chad Alva almost make me cry,” Greenwood told AVN. “That was better than
having the award, seeing him on stage. Because he’s so good and when I talked
to him…He’s in the business for 16 years, he thought that people forget about him,
nobody want to use him anymore and I give him the lead and he give everything
and now he’s on stage.
“Some people give up on the idea of winning.”
Alva told AVN the only other thing he’s done for a living in his adult life involved
music.
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