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they won while they were backstage celebrating the Grand Reel victory—Rae and
Granger screamed upon hearing their names called.
“I just want to thank my mom and my dad for giving me this hot piece of ass
because Seth and Adria wouldn’t have wanted to break off a piece of it so badly in
that scene,” Granger told AVN.
Rae added, “To win with people I got into the industry with, that’s the coolest part.”
Gamble said, “I was just the luckiest boy in the world. There was one point where I
was just pretzeling Kimmy and Adria, we had no space.”
Granger concluded, “It was challenging but we got through it with smiles on our
faces. There was a lot of laughter, a lot of reasons to smile.”
Three-time Director of the Year Kayden Kross and the cast of American MILF
accepted the Mark Stone Award for Outstanding Comedy for what was the first
feature from Vixen Media Group’s MILFY banner.
Written and directed by Kross, the six-part production featured an ensemble cast
led by contract stars Maitland Ward and Brandi Love, with Phoenix Marie, Serenity
Cox and Christy Canyon with additional performances by Isiah Maxwell, Parker
Ambrose, Hollywood Cash and Derek Savage, as well as VMG exclusive contract
stars Dan Damage and Jason Luv.
With so many moving parts during the eight-day shoot, Kross lauded the chemistry
that developed on the set.
“It was incredible,” Kross said. “What’s great is I had been able to work with
everyone and spend time with everyone—and after that I wrote to a sense of humor
I got from them. So I really leaned into what I was feeling and Maitland did even
more with the lines, I was so happy.”
Kross shot the movie in a documentary style, following the lives of a tight-knit group
of friends in LA who are anything but typical housewives behind closed doors.
“It was for one the smoothest movie we ever made and it was the most fun because
we were all—there were times where we were just ad-libbing,” Kross continued.
“There’s a lot of stuff in there where I just let them go and we used it. And Maitland,
she’s a comedic actress, so…”
The perennial Best Actress winner Ward agreed.
“It was a lot of fun,” Maitland said. “It was amazing to get back to my comedy roots
and she wrote a brilliant script with the format of it—that was the core of it.”
Kross added, “Everyone showed up, they hit their lines, they hit their characters.
Nothing caught on fire—the things that can happen in LA, right?
“And also we were just laughing nonstop and it made our days fly by.”
The Fan-Voted AVN Award for Favorite Independent Female Creator went to Mama
Plugs, an 11-year industry veteran from The Midlands, U.K., who now resides in
Cornwall.
“I’m gobsmacked, I don’t even know how I won it,” Mama Plugs, who got into adult
content creation when she was 18, said backstage. “I think my fans are going to
be very happy. I know they came through, I know they voted a lot and it means the
world to me. This is my first AVN Award, I’m so stoked.
Mama Plugs found an audience for her authentic, comedic content.
“I don’t collab so it’s all with my husband or solo,” Mama Plugs said. “So it’s all kind
of like high amateur, if that makes sense, kind of high-quality amateur. A lot of anal.”
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