This article originally ran in the March 2015 issue of AVN. To see the issue, which features coverage of AVN's January shows, click here.
About 30 miles east of Chatsworth, in a very white house on a hill, Stormy Daniels is directing a new caper movie for Wicked Pictures, Pretty Dangerous. A small and narrow entry leads into a tall, expansive living room with beamed ceiling, backed up with tall glass doors and a bright-blue pool drawing the eye to the hilltop view overlooking the city below. My eye was drawn to activity in the pool, so, intrepid reporter that I am, I head out there to see set designers Andy Appleton and Kylie Ireland doing second-unit work on a fake sunken-ship cargo hold, laden with treasure, propped against the wall of the deep end. Appleton, in full scuba gear, shoots video of Ireland’s hand grabbing a jeweled piece from the cache.
Inside the house, Chanel Preston is already set for the upcoming scene where she and Seth Gamble get side-by-side massages. She’s dressed in high heels—only high heels—and checking email in her cell phone while the crew places the massage tables and sets up the lights. I get my camera to take a picture and she politely moves out of the way and lies down on a couch. When I tell her I want to get the picture of her checking her email, naked, while the scene is being set up, she nods approval, turning her attention back to the phone. The picture frames up better with her horizontal anyway.
The massive living room where the scene is setting up has white concrete walls and a spiderweb of wooden beams supporting the vaulted ceiling. Incongruously, among the white walls and chrome-and-leather furniture, a cowhide rug lies on the slick polished cement floor. The hard surfaces echo the sound and I ask photographer Rick Garcia, “What would it be like having a party in here?” He responds by pointing up at the beams, which are adorned with several bikini tops. “Pretty wild. They throw their tops up there.”
The scene involves Asa Akira as a massage therapist giving Seth Gamble a rubdown as Chanel Preston, his girlfriend, gets in on the action. “I need you to start every position in soft,” Stormy tells them. “Although I love your butthole, I can’t shoot it.” Stormy warns Chanel, “You’re just watching” and calls “Action!”
Asa starts by leaning over and sucking Seth as Chanel reaches over and pulls at Asa’s pants. They wink conspiratorially as Asa sucks, the action covered by Asa’s hair. At “Go hard!” she moves away to let the camera see and Chanel bends over, spread-eagled, and noses into Asa’s ass. Asa groans as she sucks and Chanel says “Louder!” and leans in to kiss her as the cameras move in for a close-up as they take turns sucking his dick, making eye contact with him and each other. Asa retreats to eat Chanel from behind as Chanel keeps Seth occupied, aggressively deep-throating him as a grinning Asa finger-fucks her.
“You’re gonna hate me, but I need softcore here,” Stormy says, quietly. “30 seconds.” They do it, ratcheting up the vocalizations to make up for the loss of visuals. Seth runs over to get a condom as Asa keeps busy with Chanel’s upturned ass. Properly condomed, he lies back on the massage table and Chanel climbs on as Asa retreats to finger herself on the second massage bed. Seth and Chanel fuck like longtime lovers, with her casually rocking on top of him. Asa climbs on his face. “Keep it soft!” They close up and Asa leans forward, bringing her face to the Chanel-Seth connection as Chanel howls. “Hard!” Asa returns to the other massage table and repeats the action, climbing back on Seth’s face and leaning into the fuckpoint openly so the camera can see every detail. “Spread her ass, Seth.” He does. “There you go.” I see in the monitors that the shot includes Seth eating Asa and the Chanel penetration all at the same time. Nice.
Chanel and Seth move to doggy, with Asa eating Chanel, holding herself off the edge of the massage table. The cameras move to soft as Chanel wails “Oh my gawd!” as if she’s on Cloud 9. Asa gets up on her arms, fingering Chanel as she howls. “And—hardcore. Get Chanel back before she falls off the table.” Chanel opens up to camera as Asa moves in to lick her, then finger her. “Oh FUCK yes!” she says with a satisfied smile.
Asa straddles Chanel’s face as Seth fucks her in a mish. “And softcore!” They close up. Seth pulls out, Asa leans forward to suck him, momentarily, the action concealed by her hair, then she sits back up and Seth goes back in. Chanel holds Asa’s hips as Asa looks up and howls, then Asa climbs off and kisses Chanel, almost romantically. Stormy calls “30 seconds to a fip” and Chanel looks deeply into Seth’s eyes. If she isn’t almost there herself she certainly looks it.
The fake pop finished, Stormy confers with her performers for the scene finish. “Pick one position. Two minutes and a pop on the boobs. I need two minutes of awesome.”
The scene continues, wide open for hard and closed up for soft, with facial and action close-ups until the proper amount of awesome has been recorded. “Okay, Seth, fire at will,” Stormy says, casually, and Seth ramps up, driving into Asa harder faster looking her in the eye. “Oh shit oh shit!” she groans, deep and guttural. Looks real. She wraps her hands around his neck, returning the eye contact, and then he pulls back, whips off the condom and sprays the length of Asa’s torso. Chanel leans over, starts kissing it off Asa, up and down, ending with a big messy kiss between them. “Annnnnnd — Cut!”
As the cameras retreat, they hold position, savoring the moment, then reach for towels, as Stormy steps in to stage the next shots, caper-like background business that will be cut into the sex scene.
There’s no time to lose. The light through the windows will be different in an hour.
Pretty Dangerous is a March 2015 title from Wicked Pictures. Pictured above: Seth Gamble, Asa Akira and Chanel Preston. Click here for more photos from Pretty Dangerous.
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