Bud Lee’s new feature Chill, released by Sin City Ultra yesterday, is loosely based on the mainstream baby boomer classic The Big Chill.
The story revolves around Dee, who portrays a character whose husband recently died, and her collegiate friends, who have come for his funeral. Dee rekindles an old romance with Holly Hollywood that results in a girl/girl scene that impressed Lee, who is normally averse to girl/girl scenes.
“We shot two cameras on it and never cut our cameras, we just let them go,” Lee said. “It’s one of the most interesting girl/girl scenes I’ve shot in a long time. They just kinda went after each other. It had a lot of actual passion built into it.”
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| Boxcover for Chill, released yesterday by Sin City Ultra |
Lee was also impressed with Christie Lee, who had never worked for him before. Christie, no relation to Bud, was in a three-way scene with Scott Styles and Dee. “She did a really interesting job. She just kept saying over and over again to Dee, ‘My god, you’re so beautiful. I’m so lucky.’ She was so locked in to Dee it made it easy for Scott to work through them,” he said.
Christie Lee was still raving about Dee weeks after the scene was shot. “Dee’s got the best pussy,” she told AVN.com after explaining that she wasn’t actually supposed to work with Dee that day, but Dee asked to work with her. “I was like, hell yeah!” she said.
Bud Lee was also impressed with Styles’ work in that scene. “I think he’s come into his own since he and Kim Chambers have gone their separate ways. I think he’s found a new freedom in his sexuality that has allowed him to break into another level.”
Yet all of Lee’s compliments weren’t for sexual performances. The director praised Barrett Blade for his acting ability, comparing him to multiple AVN Award winner Randy Spears, considered by many to be the best actor in adult. “I know it seems weird to talk about things like that when we are talking about sex movies, but we’re also talking about a marketplace that this was designed for – the cable market, and that means the couples market.”
Lee specifically points to Erotic Media, a European cable company with stringent requirements for the titles that they show, as the reason why storylines and therefore acting, are still essential elements in adult.
“Erotic Media has set a pretty high bar for acceptance of movies in the sense that all characters having sex have to have a history together,” Lee explains. “It’s not like you can meet a girl in a bar and take her home and bang her. You have to become trickier building in a back-story and relationships so that people are not just indiscriminately having sex, which is funny because we make porn movies last time I checked.”
It isn’t actually Erotic Media, but German law that requires relationships for two characters to have hardcore sex on cable, a restriction that Lee finds chafing as he feels it limits his creativity.
“We serve sex up on a silver platter, everybody know that guy gets girl, girl gets girl, guy gets girl/girl, whatever,” Lee said. “The sex scenes are fairly formulated and pretty much a recipe but at the same time it’s nice to throw the audience a little curve ball, and give them a little tension, mystery and excitement and that’s hard to do when you have these rules and regulations to follow.
“Still, every once in a while, it all comes together anyway. This is one of those times.”
Mandy Bright, Brittney Noel, T.J. Cox, and Trevor Zen fill out the rest of the cast of Chill.
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