Page 51 - AVN Magazine March 2025

“When I found out that Dorcel does some stuff here and
they wanted to shoot me, I was pretty excited because I’d
never had the chance to shoot with the company.”
It’s chilly Sunday night and the location is the Blue Zebra, a gentlemen’s club in North Hollywood,
in an industrial area that is typically deserted on the weekends. Booked for the production shoot
on what would have probably been a slow night anyway, the club feels uninhabited, as if staff and
dancers have just vanished into the misty darkness—except for one guy who looks like a regular,
alone in the club’s empty, blue-lit foyer.
He was pacing and muttering, bald with stringy hair in a greasy comb-over, and wore a cheap-
looking butterscotch-colored leather jacket, with old-school gold dental work to match several chains
around his neck and rings on his fingers. He looked a little rough.
Suddenly, he stormed from the foyer into the club’s main room. Several voices, including a female,
were heard in heated dialogue and suddenly, loud, “FUCK you!” followed by maniacal laughter.
More angry conversation went on for a moment, back and forth—then a familiar accent with a
French-Canadian lilt called out, “Okay, cut!”
Relieved laughter prompted a peek around the corner onto the set, where ginger-haired director
Ricky Greenwood stood next to a camera on a trolley, focused on a corner booth where several
cast members were assembled for the dialogue scene. Greenwood conferred for a moment with
the camera operator about the next take while about a dozen crew was seated in the dark, behind
the cameras.
In the neon glow of the club’s interior, A-list performers Isiah Maxwell, Seth Gamble, and Charles
Dera were all dressed in suits for their roles as the club tough guys. They took advantage of the
break in action to relax, chatting and checking their phones, while lead actor Tommy Pistol went
to have his bald cap touched up. After several takes, Pistol’s persona—the balding dude in the
lobby—was starting to peel slightly at the edges.
Riley Reid, a 2025 AVN Hall of Fame inductee, plays the female lead in Strip, Greenwood’s
upcoming feature for the Paris, France-based studio Dorcel. Slated to be one of the company’s
major releases this year, the movie marks Reid’s return to features after an extended break from
studio work since 2022.
The Miami Beach native debuted in adult in 2011 and soon became an “It” girl in high demand.
She has been nominated for AVN Female Performer of the Year seven times, consecutively from
2014 to 2020, taking home the coveted trophy in 2016.
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