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“I was a touring musician playing in a heavy metal band, but touring full time—nine
months out of the year. That was all we did, it was a lifestyle,” continued Alva, who
played bass guitar. “That was my original core instrument, but now I do a little bit of
everything.
“The band I was touring with the most was called Dead to Fall and that was based
out of Chicago. It was a fun time. I’m glad I did that instead of going to college, to be
honest. It was the best time ever.”
But even at the height of Alva’s touring days, he always wanted to do porn.
“By the time I was a teen, I was talking to people about it in my school,” Chad said.
“People are always like, what do you want to do when you grow up? I always said
I’m going to move to LA and get into porn.
“People always thought I was full of shit, but I was dead serious. I saw something
more in it. I said no, I really feel connected to this. I really want to make this happen
and do this. Then, I just did.”
Ariel Demure made an impassioned speech, accepting the Best Trans Acting
Performance for “Gordons & Goddesses” for Ten15Group—a project she scripted,
co-directed and for which she created all the costumes.
“I imagined everyone was in their underwear and then I got hard, which is why I
started crying because that’s my MO,” joked Demure, who channeled “Medusa’s
daughter” in a black dress adorned with a feather on her left shoulder.
“I never had like a theater background or anything. I never thought that acting was
my direction. I never thought that I’d feel comfortable showing myself in that very
vulnerable way.”
Demure continued, “I’m a whore at heart, I’m a prostitute and that’s how I feel
most comfortable. And now a porn star. But for people to keep saying over and over
again that my acting is not only not bad but it’s pretty dang good, it’s weird. So I just
want to get better.”
She said one of biggest challenges of “Gordons & Goddesses” was “honestly,
making the fucking costumes.”
“I sewed about a football field’s length of silk chiffon, so I could clothe every single
one of the girls,” Ariel revealed.
Now in her fifth year in adult, Demure remembered her roots.
“I’m from South Florida, which I have bittersweet feelings about,” she said. “I’m
grateful that I came from there because I learned how to drive in my father’s work
van with no rearview mirror. And he said if you can drive this way then you’ll be able
to drive any car.
“And that’s how I feel about Florida. If you can make it there, fuck New York, fuck
Los Angeles, you can do it anywhere.”
Second-year performer Angel Windell won two AVN Awards—Best Boy/Girl Sex
Scene for her performance with Chris Diamond in “Nine” for Deeper and Best VR
Group Sex Scene for “Goth Girls: Tea Party”forSLR Originals.
The Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene category received more than 700 pre-nominations—
so just to make the final list as a top-10 scene of the year is a feat in itself.
Windell fought back tears as she stood in the winners circle.
“I feel like this is not real,” Angel told AVN. “I was preparing to cheer for other
people.
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