LOS ANGELES—Marcello Bravo excelled as a mechanic, exotic dancer, acrobat and live-sex show performer, bringing passion to each pursuit before breaking into the porn business.
But he reveals his first love was soccer.
“I was always addicted to sport,” says Bravo, who played soccer for over 15 years and was close to signing a professional contract with iconic Austrian football club, SK Rapid Wien, before he switched his focus.
“I played for them two years but in that time it was always about who you know and ass-kissing style in the soccer industry and that’s why I stop my career.”
But even though it wasn’t on the pitch, Bravo seemed destined to reach for the stars doing something else.
Now over 15 years since making his porn debut, he has established himself as one of the top performer/directors in Europe, making the most of his physical gifts, natural talent and strong work ethic.
The co-owner of the boutique movie studio and website, LittleCaprice-Dreams.com, along with his wife, Little Caprice—the three-time AVN International Female Performer of the Year from Czech Republic—has dedicated most of his life to entertainment in some form.
In addition to his promising soccer career, he toured Europe as a stripper, aerialist and live-sex actor before he ever stepped onto an adult movie set.
Nowadays he performs in sex scenes, produces, directs, lights the set, creates marketing concepts, designs box covers, writes scripts and whatever else may be needed on any given day.
“I perform as much is possible, mostly just for LittleCaprice-Dreams.com because we have so much work,” Marcello says. “Sometimes I would love to shoot more for other productions from time to time as I did last year a lot for Dorcel for the big movies. But I have not so much time at the moment.”
A perennial contender for AVN International Male Performer of the Year and Best Directing Portfolio - International, Bravo estimates he performs in between 70 to 100 scenes a year.
Last year, Marcello and Caprice’s work received 13 nominations for the 2025 AVN Awards.
“We had a really good year in 2024, we shoot amazing scenes and we are super happy with all results we made,” Bravo says. “It’s still sometimes unbelievable what my wife and me produce as a small, low-budget company. Our cinematic look gets better and better and to get 13 nominations at the AVN, it’s just fantastic.”
Bravo and Caprice cast the top talent in Europe for their original series’ such as Buttmuse, Caprice Divas, NasstyX, PornLifestyle, POVDreams, StreetFuck, SuperPrivateX, WeCumToYou, Xpervo and VR Porn.
And not only do they continue to perform, they also manage all the pre- and post-production for their growing library of world-class content. The team behind LCD remains modest, but effective.
“We have one development guy, Jan, who keeps the website in shape and designs and creates new technical updates for members,” Bravo explains.
“And we have Caprice who does the tax stuff, model and location bookings, works as a female talent and prepares costumes for models. She’s also helping on location, selecting photosets and writing invoices and keeping a eye on our business bank account. And she does her OnlyFans as well.”
Marcello continues, “We have one girl, Fever, who helps us with the affiliate marketing, writes newsletters and does the voiceovers. And then me.”
Bravo tends to do the work of many by himself.
Little Caprice, who won the top international performing award in 2020, 2021 and 2023, tells AVN, “Actually, he is the biggest part of our production.”
“Because he has been always a workaholic and he's going for it every time since I know him,” Caprice says.
“When he did his pole dancing he had never been [doing that] and all the pole dancers were like ballet dancers before and then they started, but he never had this background and he just go for it and he was one of the best ones.
“And this is what I always like on him—when he wants something he go for it. It doesn't matter what is happening, so this is the same with our production. He never had a background with like being a camera guy, cutting the scenes, post-production, nothing. And he's always trying to be better and better. He sits for hours and work and work and this is amazing.”
Caprice continues, “So the creativity what he has inside his mind is crazy because sometimes he's waking up in the night and like, ‘Oh I have the idea for the next scene.’
“It's incredible what he's achieving without any background. He didn't learn photography, he didn't learn moviemaking, he didn't learn post-production. He's just making everything by himself. Not everybody can do that. This is something really special.”
Bravo has co-produced, directed and edited three AVN Best International Girl/Girl Sex Scenes for LittleCaprice-Dreams.com (2021-23) for starters; and he produced, directed and performed in the 2024 AVN Best International Group Sex Scene winner along with Caprice, Rika Fane and Stanley Johnson.
Born in the small town of Mödling, Austria, which is located about 9 miles south of the capital of Vienna, the 47-year-old star tells AVN he was never the type of guy who waited for opportunities to come to him.
“I’m a man who say straight out what I want and don’t and I would never do something what I don’t like to get successful or reach a goal,” Bravo says. “Sometimes it is good to have this attitude and sometimes not, but that’s who I am.”
He says that after his decision to walk away from soccer, his father told him that he needed to learn a new trade.
“There was a mechanic and electric company close to our apartment and I went there to ask if they need some apprentices and they agreed,” Bravo recalls. “Then for four years I study and got my diploma.”
But even though Marcello proved to be good with his hands, that wasn’t what sent him on the path to porn stardom—it was stripping.
“With 25 years I start my striptease career to make some extra money and I saw very fast this business works very well and I can get creative with my shows and combine with sport I love,” Marcello continues. “In a short time I was one of the best striptease dancers in Europe with special show acts, stories and costumes.”
Bravo even attended circus school, learning how to “pimp up” his shows with aerial acrobatics such as flips, handstands, fire play and juggling, doing spectacular strip shows where he often executed stunts going 10 meters in the air. He also built up his first erotic entertainment agency in the process.
“And of course I start to edit my own shows and after a while for other artists,” Bravo says. “Even for bigger shows I create show music with effects, do choreography for dancers and acrobatics—that was the start of my editing career.”
The first time he came in contact with adult talent was when he received his first bookings to do strip shows at erotic festivals in the EU.
“There was always porn stars as the main act and many striptease dancers and of course also a lot of girls,” Bravo says. “As a male stripper nympho who loves sex, it was like heaven.
“Sometimes I had sex five times a day at the expos because there was so many girls and me as a stripper, let’s say I was the rooster in the basket and I take all I get.”
It all started to make sense for Bravo, who admits that he realized his package was bigger than many others when he was a teenager, “and when I start to masturbate I never get enough.”
“So after my first cumshot I keep going on until I came 2-3-4 times in a row without a break. Now I know where that comes from, that special gift I have to keep going after a cumshot.”
But it was during one of his expo shows that everything changed.
“One day the owner of a big erotica expo asked me if I want do some live sex shows on stage because he saw that I fuck multiple girls a day backstage—from porn stars to visitors to show colleagues. And I agreed and say, why not sex for money? Love it.”
Performing live sex shows worked from the start for Bravo—he traveled all around Europe to do them, sometimes in front of 5000 people in countries like The Netherlands or at private parties, like at a nightclub in Jamaica.
“Then one day I got an offer to shoot a porn movie for a German production,” Bravo says. “It was around 2008, but the quality of the production in Germany was horrible. It was not high-end style so I decided to stay with my shows and live-sex acts.”
In 2012, Marcello met a fast-rising star named Little Caprice at the Venus Berlin Show in Germany.
“We changed phone numbers there and date after the expo, we was from the beginning on the same wave, became a couple and moved together and all was perfect until today after 13 years,” Marcello says. “I think around 2013 we got the offer from the biggest production in the world at that time, X-Art. Our contract was around five years. When the contract was finished we decided to build up our own production, Little Caprice Dreams.”
Bravo tells AVN he takes pride in every award and nomination that has come for Little Caprice Dreams, but that “honestly, the most proud one I would say was not my nomination or winning, it was the Female Performer of the Year for my wife three times because she deserved it 100%.”
“She is 15 years in business and a real legend,” he adds. “Before she had always bad people around her and that’s why her success with awards comes when we became a couple and that makes me proud!
“And about myself, it makes me proud when I get multiple nominations in different categories—as a director and actor—because not many talents in the world exist who can be a director, actor, editor and creator and that’s makes me proud.”
Bravo wants to build on LCD’s momentum this year. They already have rolled out their first feature, WeCumtoYou: Love & Lust, which has been released in three episodes on the website and will be coming soon on DVD through Pulse Distribution. The movie advances one of their most popular continuing series with a narrative arc that stars Marcello, Caprice, 2025 International Female Performer of the Year Eve Sweet and Matthew Meier.
As Bravo looks toward the future, his ambition is unwavering.
“We want to stay healthy and happy and hope the world gets a bit more normal and all the wars around us will stop,” he says. “I want to produce my first big movie. And one day I want to become the Male Performer of the Year and Director of the Year.
“Of course in my case it will be very difficult because I shoot just for Little Caprice Dreams. We are a low-budget company and we know how it is, but everything is possible and I will never give up.”
