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“The movie is dark...”
Acquiring Reid for the movie was another coup for Greenwood, who tossed around the idea with
colleagues at Dorcel in autumn of 2023.
“We had just finished Alive. I go to Paris [once a year to plan] what’s happening next year. And
they gave me the idea of the movie, Strip. They wanted to do a movie about striptease and a strip
club, so, I said, ‘Okay.’
“At the [2024] AVN Expo, we met again... just a friendly meeting,” when Reid’s name came up in
conversation, the director said.
His colleagues at Dorcel expressed disappointment at never shooting the star prior to her semi-
retirement.
“So, I said, ‘Well, it’s a little bit too late. She’s not shooting anymore,’” Greenwood recalled. “Then,
I mentioned it to Mark Spiegler, her agent, and he said, ‘Well, it’s not totally impossible...’”
Dorcel contract girl Clara Mia also is in the cast for Strip, which is slated for release in late summer.
The indie director agreed with Pistol that, for a Dorcel movie, Strip has a dark, edgy feel.
“The movie is dark,” Greenwood said. “The movie is like intense and, the way I was planning to
do, I don’t know if it works. The original plan—I was planning to build the movie, in a sense, like in a
sex scene—in that the movie starts slow and gets more and more intense until you, until the movie
explodes and, basically, you come.
“So, it’s kind of like the movie is built with the tension always there, and it’s getting more and more
intense. Like when you’re having sex, it just starts slow and it’s more and more intense until you
finish. So, that’s kind of like the way we’re trying to build the movie.
“But, from what I’ve seen so far, the acting of Tommy and Riley are just top-notch, and everybody
involved—it’s just crazy. It’s very good.”
When she’s not working she says her passion is “folklore, anthropology and learning about cultures
and legends.”
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