LOS ANGELES—Tall, tanned, toned, and dressed in head-to-toe black, Richard Glaze has the cool, confident air of a mid-level corporate executive with his eye on the CEO's corner office. His first pro scene leaned into that persona, having him play a Superman-like character in an all-day marathon shoot. "It was five scenes, fake pops except for the last one. I was moving the lights around. There was no PA, I was moving everything. I was happy to help, happy to be there. It was a 12-hour set, and I was like, 'Damn! This porn star stuff is a lot of work.'
"The next one I went to, I was, like, 'What the hell? This is easy. One pop, one scene, and then I go home?' Three hours, most of it was just sitting around waiting for them to move the lights. They had a PA and everything."
Unsurprisingly, Glaze came to adult from the corporate world. "I was an automation engineer and data analyst. I did corporate for 12 years," he says. "But I've always wanted to do this job. It's been a dream since I was a kid. I was an athlete, high testosterone, very performative as far as fitness goes. That was my first choice. But the older kids were, like, 'You gotta do three years of gay porn first' and I was, like, damn it. That put me off.
"I decided to get a regular job, make good money, do all the things I want to do, and I'll be attractive enough so girls can let me do that anyway."
When COVID hit, "I had the luxury of working from home, and I got really spoiled. When they wanted me to go back in the office, I was hesitant to go back. It was a convenience thing. My wife—Danielle Renae, she's a performer, too—was a cam model at the time," Glaze continues.
"When we met, she was a stripper at my buddy's bachelor party, I was doing corporate, I was really enamored with her—she's wild, crazy, fun— we get together, we get married, and she's still doing her cam model stuff online, while I'm working at home. We both get spoiled, she tells me, 'I don’t want you to go back to the office, either. Why don't you help me, we'll expand the business.' She only did solo and girl/girl before. She suggested we perform together, and I had some side income so I could take some time and explore this, and we did. And it went way better than we thought it would go."
Their social-media promotion got the attention of Keiran Lee, who offered to shoot Renae. "We talked about it. We'd been in The Lifestyle, and we thought that would be great. I drove her to Keiran's house, we got ready to shoot and he asked me to shoot with my cell phone through the door as if I'm catching her."
In mid-scene, Renae told Glaze, "Come in here, get your pants off." Lee had suggested it to her before the scene started. "I had talked it up, saying 'If you need an extra guy...' He's probably heard it a thousand times, but for some reason he decided to test me. We did the whole thing: DVP, spit-roasting—she wasn't prepped for anal—and when it came time to pop, I was, like, I've seen this before, we're supposed to do it at the same time.
"I timed it perfectly with him, and he was, like, 'What the hell? You can perform. Get an agent. You can do this.' I was, like, really?"
Since then, Glaze has done "at least 50, up to 100" pro scenes. "I keep my calendar full, and if I'm not booked for pro, I'm booking girls for collabs. I'm doing content all the time. All together, more than 200 scenes."
His calling-card commercial scene is a three-way for Nubiles with 2025 Best New Starlet Gal Ritchie and 2026 Best New Starlet Cheerleader Kait. "The chemistry was so strong between us, Kait was fangirling on Gal so she was super-enthusiastic to be there," Glaze says. "They were happy for me to be there because I was a familiar face to Gal, I had worked with her before. The chemistry was great. It’s hard enough for two people to get really good chemistry, but all three of us together...
"The director was so happy with the scene he said he was going to take the edit on it himself."
He's still surprised when people recognize him: "It was kind of a shock, because I've never been That Guy. I was a corporate dork for so long. Pull out a Rubik's Cube, I'll solve that thing in under a minute. I was a nerd. I was a programmer.
"I love what I do. I've been doing this for three years, and I haven’t had a bad day yet."
Richard can be booked through OC Modeling.
Photography by @kogafoto
