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EDITOR’S NOTE
Valentina Nappi tells me she chooses to live in her native Italy for many reasons, not the least of which is how she’s treated.
“Because in Italy it’s not like the United States where we have huge stars like Angela White that I feel they don’t get the recognition they deserve in mainstream media,” Valentina says. “I don’t think she’s ever been on a TV show in America. Me, I’m on TV all the time. Actually,
I turn down opportunities if they don’t pay me. Here I’m more treated like a star.”
Nappi admits she does have to deal with a lot of cultural prejudices and hypocrisy due to
her profession, but the tradeoff is worth it.
“There’s possibilities of breaking the wall of just porn,” Valentina continues. “I love porn.
Every time they propose me something, I tell them I don’t want to quit porn.
“I love porn and I will keep shooting porn until I will look awful doing it. But I will still do it.
But if I have the chance of doing stuff in mainstream that I like, why not?”
Nappi earned a 2025 AVN Award nomination for Mainstream Venture of the Year for her first major crossover star vehicle, Almost Fabulous, a romantic comedy in which she played
herself that came out last February on Amazon Prime.
Based on the success of the film in Italy, she’ll be doing more. She was considering new
projects at press time with her mainstream agent.
“There was of course some bad comments but not as much as I thought,” Valentina says.
“Even on the Prime page, you’re always going to have some haters, but overall I didn’t have more haters than the director or the main actress.
“Actually, I had way more compliments than I expected. It was fun to shoot and after I shot a mainstream movie I realized how hard porn is. What we do is way harder than mainstream. “In porn we have such short time, short money to do things, while in mainstream we have
all day to do like one scene.”
DAN MILLER
Editor-in-Chief