On the Set: Anissa Kate gives French lessons in 'Maternal Instinct'

This article originally ran in the September 2014 issue of AVN. Pictured: Anissa Kate and Tyler Nixon. Click here for the Maternal Instinct trailer.

There must be something more frustrating than trying to find a particular address in a block of unmarked houses, but whatever that is, it isn't happening today. The problem: You can't just knock on somebody's front door and ask, "Is the porn shoot here?"

Fortunately I locate a house number painted on the curb and with a little math I find the right house.

Inside is Barrett Blade, getting ready to direct a scene with French performer Anissa Kate and Tyler Nixon, who has just shambled in, baseball hat on backwards, eating a banana. If he weren't so damn nice I could hate him very easily.

Kate is stunningly beautiful and totally casual about the fact that she's about to strip down and have sex. I attribute this attitude to something the French put in their water. Blade puts a prop wedding ring on her finger and it fits on her petite hand like a bangle bracelet around a wrist. A PA is dispatched to find tape to wrap around the back of the ring to pick up the slack.

Blade sets up the scene with Nixon and Kate: "She's your stepmom and she's tutoring you in French. To motivate you, every time you get something right, she takes something off." He turns to Kate "Is it Ah-NISS-a or Ah-NEE-sa?"

"Aneesa," she replies, hitting it right in the middle with a French inflection.

"Are you okay with playing a MILF?"

"Sure." Agreeable.

The three work on dialogue and business while the stills are shot. When Kate takes off her bra, Blade is stunned. "Those are real? That's what girls get boob jobs to look like." Kate gives Nixon some French dialogue and he smiles, "I can't say that." Not sure whether he's rehearsing a line or telling her he really can't say that. We'll see.

When the scene starts, Kate comes in and starts to help Nixon with his French vocabulary as he sits at the dining table. "Chat means 'pussy,'" she purrs. When he gets the word right, she pulls off her bra. So far so good, but a moment later, frustrated, she says to him that he isn't concentrating and she's ready to let his father kick him out of the house. As she walks away, he yells "Je vous te basier!" and she stops and turns to face him with a big smile of recognition.

He reaches for her, kissing her hard, reaching for her chat with one hand, then sits her on the table and starts tonguing her clit, cheating out to camera. She is murmuring in nonstop French, then interjects "So fucking good." Caught by the unexpected English, Nixon looks up and says, "Talk dirty in French." She smiles approvingly. The camera moves out for soft coverage, but there's a lot going on behind Kate's raised leg if the slurping sounds and her moans are any indication.

"Shooting softcore is so boring," Blade remarks to no one in particular.

Back to hardcore, Kate takes the lead, rolling Nixon over on his back and sucking him as he moans, and I don't think he's acting. She mutters something in French and he responds, "Whatever you just said" as she deep throats him, gags for a split second, then leans in for a kiss.

She stands up, bends one leg over the table, moans as he inserts. She keeps speaking in French nonstop. It sounds like French, at least. A cameraman crawls under the table to get an up shot. "Whatever you're saying—I like it," Nixon says to Kate, standing on tiptoe to accommodate her height in heels. He's motivated. Momentary break. She kicks off her shoe, smiles conspiratorially at Nixon. On "Action" she bites her lip and smiles, playing to camera, before turning back to make eye contact with Nixon again. "Go to soft!" The cameras move and they both follow the unwritten rule to overplay in soft. "And... hard" and they transition to spoon. "This is where my dad eats breakfast," Nixon improvs as he inserts. She keeps up the moaning and dialogue, transitioning between French and English as he pulls out, tickles her clit, then goes back in again. She is upping everybody's game, I notice, driving the scene, getting the camera involved. I'm even taking better notes than usual.

With the camera tight on he action, I notice Nixon's face is flushed and he is grimacing in concentration. "Close it up for soft." Blade says. This could make it easier for Nixon but somehow I doubt it.

"I want to ride you," she says, and climbs on top of him, sliding him in in a well-practiced casual move with a satisfied smile. He cups her ass with his hands as she braces with her arms on his chest. "Keep riding me, mommy," he says as she mutters in French. They're gonna have a helluva time closing up for softcore, I think to myself. It turns out to be surprisingly easy: She closes her legs together, he brings his legs up, voilà. However, the increased tension seems to increase stimulation on Nixon, whose face betrays intense concentration as he tries not to cum.

He pulls her to the corner of the table and inserts, and she coos as if it's the first time. He pulls out, tickles her clit, then looks her straight in the eye as he goes back in. It looks like they're connecting. He retreats, kneels down, licks her chat, then stands up and goes in again, building to the pop.

"I want you to cum on my face," she says.

"Really?"

She gets on her knees in front of him, mouth wide open, tongue pointed and beckoning like a finger, and a moment later he pops across her face. "I want your sperm," she says, low, intimate, as she runs her nails down his leg, keeping eye contact, tickling his balls, then she takes his cock into her open mouth. When he jumps back defensively, she smiles to the camera. Hold and ... "Cut!" Blade calls.

"Somebody turn on the AC!"

Maternal Instinct will be released September 18 by Airerose Entertainment. The title also features Ava Addams, Jennifer Best and Nadia Styles.