This article originally ran in the August 2015 issue of AVN magazine. Click here to read the online edition.
When Carter Cruise entered the adult industry in 2013, she set one simple goal for herself and her career.
“I never wanted to ‘save’ anything,” the 2015 AVN Best New Starlet and Best Actress winner said. “I had never really watched porn before I got into the industry, but when I thought about it, I read as much as I could and studied the industry as much as I could. From the start, I knew that if I was gonna do this, I was gonna do everything.”
It didn’t take long for her to mark off things that most girls in the industry take years to accomplish, if ever: Threesomes, anal, cream pies, d.p.’s, romantic features, vignettes … In less than two years, the petite blonde had quite an impressive resume. But one thing was missing from her checklist: interracial.
With the same deliberate nature that made her career soar in such a short amount of time, Carter set about to find the perfect vehicle for her debut interracial scene. That perfect storm came in the form of a Blacked.com project with director Greg Lansky and Dana Vespoli, who co-wrote the script for a four-part star showcase titled Carter Cruise Obsession.
“I had worked with Greg before, so I was excited to do that again,” she told AVN. “I had heard good things about Blacked, and I really liked their stuff and decided I really wanted to work with them.”
Obsession features the young performer in a B/B/G scene with Flash Brown and Jason Brown, a B/G/G creampie scene with Riley Reid and Rob Piper, a B/G scene with Michael Williams, and an anal scene with Flash Brown. The first chapter of the project was released online at Blacked.com on June 10; it will be released on DVD this month.
Cruise said she had never met the male talent before shooting any of the scenes.
“Greg shoots differently than any other director I have worked with, and I really like his work ethic and his approach to scenes. He’s a perfectionist, and so am I,” she said. “And not knowing the guys beforehand really made everything that much more exciting!”
Cruise said the entire experience was a positive one. Since she had worked with Vespoli before, as well, the script featured dialogue that seemed natural and easy for her to deliver.
“I love Dana; she’s amazing,” Cruise said. “I really enjoyed working with her. She had a feeling for how I would deliver lines, so she wrote them in that style.”
As for her fellow castmates, Cruise said she was “pretty much down for whatever” and just let Greg channel his vision for the scenes.
“I was really excited about the scene with Riley and Rob,” she added. “I had worked with Riley a few times that month, and I just loved it. She was one of the few people I knew about before I got into porn. And Rob was so easy to talk to and get along with. I think that turned out to be one of my favorite scenes not just in this project, but ever.”
Another salient point is that Carter Cruise Obsession was one of the last projects she completed before going back to G/G only to give her body a break.
“I knew that I wanted to take a little bit of a break, so I wanted to make sure that I got this done first,” she said. “I am by no means retiring or anything. I don’t think that I ever want to give up this career. But now that I have done so many major milestones, I like that I am in a place where I can take a step back and make really awesome projects that I am really excited about, like Carter Cruise Obsession.”
She’s not the only one who is excited. Lansky said, “We initially slated the entire film to release in conjunction with the final episode airing this September on Blacked.com, but the online response has been so beyond our projections we’re streeting the Obsession DVD over a month early.”
He added, “Carter is absolutely sensational and we feel Obsession is a big hit!”
Jules Jordan Video is releasing the Blacked.com title this week.
