LOS ANGELES—Anna Claire Clouds went on a journey with Jules Jordan this summer that began with a storyboard filled with ideas about what it could be.
What transpired after that is something she will never forget.
“He took those ideas and made them a reality and added his own personal flair,” Clouds says. “There were things that he added that I didn’t know I wanted, but he truly is a master of his craft.”
What they came up with is on display in the new star showcase, Anna Claire Clouds: Dark Side, the latest entry in Jordan’s premium showcase series that features Clouds rising to the occasion in all four scenes and delivering three career firsts.
A native of Nashville who is in her fourth year in adult, Clouds did her first double-penetration scene, her first blowbang and her first gangbang in the movie that is available now at JulesJordanVideo.com and AdultEmpire and will be released on DVD in mid-October.
She describes the project as a “once in a lifetime opportunity” that was all about being in the moment and trusting the process.
In particular, Clouds trusted the AVN Hall of Fame studio mogul Jordan to guide her through uncharted territory en route to a sexual awakening.
“During the filming of everything I was just kind of experiencing it,” Clouds says. “I was just living—and allowing Jules to do his thing knowing he would take my experience and make it beautiful.
“It’s hard to put into words how extremely happy I am with how everything turned out.”
Anna tells AVN that every scene in the two-hour, 48-minute epic was a collaboration from concept to completion.
“We had spoken about a showcase on and off since the beginning of the year and then halfway through the summer Jules reached out and said, ‘This is something I’d like to shoot with you,’” she explains.
“I just know the work Jules does is like having a timestamp in porn. It’s like putting myself in a little time capsule to show what porn was like in 2024— because that’s the quality of the production that Jules has.
“I’ve known since I started doing porn that I wanted to do a showcase for Jules Jordan. I have such a profound respect for the quality of content he creates and how he’s so not jaded. He has such an incredible eye for this.”
The seasoned shooter from Hershey, Pa., tells AVN once he saw how passionate Clouds was about the project that he knew what needed to be done.
“When I first went into pre-production myself and Anna discussed the concepts she wanted to do, and after discussing themes, etc., it was an easy decision that this would be part of the Dark Side franchise, something that I don't commit to very often,” says the veteran director/performer, whose most recent edition of Dark Side in 2019 starred Angela White.
“Anna and myself collaborated on this one more than I typically do with a model for a showcase. She was very involved with the inspiration and concepts involved. I was able to digest and visualize what had to be done. She treated this like the UFC main event and took on all opponents—no holds barred, literally.”
Jordan continues, “As far as effort and enthusiasm from a model, this is at the very top of all the showcases I've done. Anna really wanted to challenge herself for this one with her first DP, blowbang and gangbang. She went full force in.
“I honestly have to say that all the male talent for this project brought their A-game. This is one of the most solid group of guys I've had in a long time. They came hard and full of cum!”
For starters, Jordan called Manuel Ferrara, the six-time AVN Male Performer of the Year, to handle the anal scene with Clouds.
One of the first critically acclaimed scenes of Clouds’ career came with Ferrara, when she tangled with him in 2021 and received an AVN Awards nomination for their pairing in Jordan’s Hot as Fuck 3.
“That scene for me really just kind of framed the type of porn that I want to film,” Anna recalls. “The fans love seeing Manuel and I together, so I immediately decided one of the scenes would have to be with Manuel.”
The difference between her previous two sessions with Ferrara and this one was Clouds is doing anal now.
“This is the first time Manuel and I have ever done anal together and it was requested by him so many times. He would say to me, ‘Please let me know when I can fuck your ass.’”
She granted his wish—and they did it in a dungeon.
“We wanted it to be more of a play on submission and we did it in a real dominatrix’s dungeon,” Anna says. “Thank you so much to the individuals who allowed us to do that.
“This was the first scene in the movie and I wanted to have a clear juxtaposition with the level of control I had in this scene versus in the blowbang and the gangbang, because even though they’re multiple people in those, I was in control.
“For this scene I wanted to be a fully submissive fuck toy and just let Manuel do whatever he wanted and guide me in the way I know he can.”
Clouds stepped in with perennial deal closer Zac Wild and Jordan himself for her first DP—in a mood-lit garage decked out in vintage decor.
She describes her sultry look to start the scene as the “garage bunny” that transforms from “pretty little plaything” to someone who wants to get “completely used and wrecked.”
“What I remember from that scene is that Zac came in so excited to do this,” Anna says. “Zac always brings his A game, but when he realized what it was for, he said thank you for including him and he expressed his gratitude. Then he also just took it so seriously. He did everything single thing he needed to do and then some to insure we were getting every shot.
“We did wax play, we used an electrode stimulator and they tied me to a big X. We didn’t really even cut that much. They just let me have fun.”
Clouds says the scene was her first DP on or off camera.
“I couldn’t even get a toy in both before, to be honest,” she adds with a laugh. “It’s just not something I was able to do and I would’ve been nervous if it was anyone else for this. But since it was Jules and Zac I was purely excited to work with them knowing I am in such wonderful hands and that no matter what happened they would make everything look great.
“There was so much DP in that scene and that was exactly what I wanted it to be. I wanted to be DP’d as much as possible.”
Anna tells AVN that her eight-man blowbang was about embracing her “gooner” side as she films herself with a camera connected to a vintage TV. When she starts working the room full of guys, Jordan projects her actual DP scene on the wall behind her. The lucky studs who got the call included Milan Ponjevic, Donny Sins, Clarke Kent, Ken Feels, Nick Strokes, Johnny Goodluck, Will Pounder and Eddie Jaye.
“I had just done a successful a DP not long ago, so that was first time ever seeing it during my blowbang,” Anna says.
All the guys who had been booked for Clouds’ blowbang and gangbang showed up—which is no small feat.
“I cannot tell you how grateful I am for that,” she says. “I couldn’t have picked a better group. They were absolutely killing it.
“It was such real raw intensity, even if their dick wasn’t in my mouth they were still talking to me or holding my hair or doing something. They all stayed involved. Not a single person wanted to walk away and grab some water.”
The nine-man gangbang finale—in which Clouds is seen emerging from a cage to take on all comers—represented the climax of the star’s progression to the Dark Side.
This time it was John Strong, Damon Dice, Nade Nasty, Will Pounder, Hollywood Cash, Slim Poke, Milan Ponjevic, Chocolate God, Jax Slayher and Vince Karter who did the honors.
“When I walked in that day, I knew all these guys were gonna show up,” Clouds says. “I know these guys and they do what they say they’re gonna do. I was really lucky for the group that we put together.”
“I went from submission, to a new experience [in the DP] and then into my own perversion [in the blowbang] and then I kind of fall into the darkness and the last scene is me being the uncaged, feral animal that I am,” she continues. “That’s how we landed on the cage.”
Clouds says that she and Jordan weren’t sure if they’d be able to find a human-sized cage—it was one of the main elements on her storyboard.
But when they were reviewing the still photos from her anal scene with Manuel, they noticed there was a cage in the dungeon, too.
One of the biggest moments of the gangbang occurred before the action got underway, according to Clouds.
“We all kind of warmed each other up a little bit and then right before the scene Jules gave me a moment where I spoke to all the men,” Anna says.
She told them it was her first time being gangbanged and that she wanted to be DP’d as much as possible.
“And the only thing I ask is you hold my chest up so I can have a cock in both hands and one in my pussy and one in my ass,” Clouds says. “I told them to hold me up, so that I can really, really enjoy myself and I said, ‘Let’s all just have fun and Jules will figure it out.’ And he did and he guided those men so effortlessly.
“These guys barely needed any guidance… It was like we’re fucking, I’m not putting on a show, I’m not performing. I’m am 100% having my first gangbang and that’s it, there’s no other way to put it.”
Clouds admits that she got so lost in the moment that she didn’t realize there were nine guys in her gangbang until a couple days later when she was back on set to shoot the confessional-style interviews that were interspersed with the scenes.
“I did know there were nine guys who were invited but I didn’t count the guys that day,” she says, laughing. “I was so cock blind, I was literally that horny and cum drunk that I had no fucking idea. I was just looking at all the meat available for me.”
Clouds tells AVN one of the biggest moments of her career came in late February when she signed with Spiegler Girls.
“I think I have always really enjoyed doing what I do, but when I signed with Spiegler—Mark [Spiegler] and George [Jiries]—I didn’t realize how important it was to have not just people on your team, but people on your team that are really big fans of your work. And Mark and George are my No. 1 supporters when it comes to my work,” Anna says.
“That was when I was able to stop thinking about if I’m going to get an opportunity and just start performing the way I know how.”
The 2022 AVN Awards Trophy Girl, a self-described “eclectic soul,” says she always wanted to do porn but she waited until she knew it could become a career.
She says that everything she’s done so far has led her to this milestone—a showcase that became everything she hoped it would be and more.
“I just want to take a moment to say how incredible Jules and his team are. Jules and [his videographer] Elliot [Clixx] and his makeup artists Rosalinda and Azzie—they all just went above and beyond. It’s hard for me to really put into words how appreciative I am of them just working so hard to create something that is going to be a memory for the rest of my life,” Anna says.
“They truly put everything into it to make sure it was done exactly how I wanted and then they made me look incredible. So I want to express my gratitude toward Jules and his entire team. Because I could not have done it without any of them.”
Clouds also extended a special thanks to her fans for believing in her.
“It’s so important,” she says. “The fans that have been following my little secret clues and my Easter eggs and have been guessing things. Having to keep this a secret was so incredibly hard. But they were able to guess things from my very obscure little clues I was dropping online. And it drove me in the right direction and just kept me going and kept my excited.
“It kept me so excited for showing off what I was doing. So thank you to all my fans because this is an experience I’m definitely never going to forget... I feel very seen and very loved.”
To download the Dark Side scenes in 4K, visit julesjordan.com.
