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a full-circle situation—I did cheerleading growing up, and I learned how to tumble
for that. So I was able to learn how to tumble again. So I’m doing some flips that was
supposed to be like a stunt double, but I ended up learning them just in time to do my
own tricks and my own stunts.”
To be fair, Reid wasn’t the only one who went through training—both Clutch and
recently back-in-action power performer Yhivi worked for five days with top male star
and stunt coordinator, Nathan Bronson, alongside several other trainers, to learn some
complex fighting maneuvers.
“I had to learn to sword fight a bit,” Clutch shares. “Which is really cool, and I
absolutely was up for the challenge.”
She goes on to compliment Yhivi on her fist-throwing, telling her, “You’re really good
at the fighting ... the punching.”
“Really?” Yhivi beams. “Cool! Thank you! The whole time, I’m like, ‘Doing my best.’
I hope so. I have such high standards for myself.”
She continues, “That’s something in the movie I had to really be more realistic about,
’cause there were so many times with the stunt coordinators where they were like, ‘You
don’t have to do this.’ And I was like, ‘But I want to.’ And they were like, ‘Yes, and you
can try, however this takes people like 10-plus years to figure out. And I’m like, ‘OK,
but let me try.’
“And I will say one of the kicks, they were like, ‘Actually, you’re good enough to do
that, you should do it,” she adds with a grin.
Greenwood says that because of all this fight training and choreography, Deadly Vows
is actually a more ambitious project than his last few big-budget Digital Playground
efforts, Project X and the AVN Grand Reel-winning Gold Diggers (2025) and Machine
Gunner (2024).
“It’s a lot ... it’s guns, it’s fighting, it’s a lot of training, we have stunt doubles for almost
everybody,” he explains. “It’s just a lot to manage in the amount of time we have. It’s
the same amount of time to shoot this movie that we had for Machine Gunner or Project
X, but it’s just way more ambitious, because fighting takes time. It takes time to shoot
that properly, safely. So that’s what is challenging.”
Beyond that, he adds, “I designed all the costumes ... you know, normally the costume
is like an everyday type of thing, like military or cops, so I just kind of grab that. Now,
I was trying to have original costumes for everybody.”
Furthermore, he divulges, “We built each set. Nothing was shot in an apartment or
a house, everything is built from scratch. We rent a warehouse for two weeks, and
we build the set inside—the bathroom, the master bedroom, the bar, the tearoom,
everything was built from scratch.
“It was very challenging, but everybody was 100 percent onboard and giving you
all the energy they can. ... I think people will be impressed. If you like action movies,
for sure. It’s a martial arts, like action movie from the ’80s, basically.”
“Something porn has never seen,” Reid chimes in.
“Yeah, hopefully,” Greenwood smiles. “I think it will be surprising. I hope people like
it, for sure.”
Deadly Vows begins rolling out on DigitalPlayground.com September 8.