LOS ANGELES—The three-time AVN Male Performer of the Year, Mick Blue, landed a role in the new mainstream film, Dutch III: International Gangster, which premiered Thursday on BET Plus.
A member of the Screen Actors Guild and also a Brazzers contract star, the AVN Hall of Fame performer from Graz, Austria, joined the cast and crew Wednesday evening at a private screening for close friends and associates at Landmark Theatre in Westwood, Calif.
Produced by Manny Halley’s Imani Media Group—which is also well established in the music industry—the movie is the third in the Dutch trilogy that is based on a series of prison books authored by Teri Woods. Salvatore Sclafani directed the movie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Halley.
The film’s synopsis reads: “After faking his death and laying low in Italy, Dutch pulls his old crew back together for one last job—steal back a priceless diamond from a mob boss, settle old scores, and make it out clean before the feds or his enemies catch up.”
Blue plays a well-dressed boat security guy for the Italian mobster Ciccio Mancuso (Giuseppe Russo), who has betrayed his boss and is in possession of the stolen diamond. Mick’s character is watching the dock outside a boat party when he engages in a serious conversation with a guy representing the group that wants to steal the diamond back.
“It’s not a huge role but I’m a principal actor in it,” Blue, who in 2024 began a recurring role on ABC's iconic daytime drama, General Hospital, tells AVN.
“It’s another baby step in the right direction. We shot that movie last year in March in Marina Del Rey. It was a great experience.”
Lance Gross, a seasoned actor known for House of Payne, Sleepy Hollow and MacGyver, stars in Dutch III as the title character; the movie co-stars Rocsi Diaz, Jeremy Meeks (the viral "hot felon"), Natasha Marc and Markice Moore.
Blue, who lauded the “family-style” vibe of the private screening, says the producer Halley is inspired to create movies that bring the narratives of select prison books to life.
“It’s kind of like it’s a movement, where he and his team are very focused on it,” Blue says. “He takes those kinds of subjects and puts them on the big screen as a statement—and also to kind of enlighten people and bring them together. It makes me even more honored to be part of that project.”
Mick continues, “What was also really nice is that to the people who created this movie, it doesn’t matter how big your role in the movie was, if you were a cast member, you were basically treated equally. I never met Manny before but when I went to premiere they knew exactly who I was. Even people who work for the company were like, ‘Hey Mick, go over here.’”
The 25-year adult movie veteran even joined his fellow cast members on stage after the screening.
“Sometimes you go to a movie premiere and only the five lead actors are on stage to talk about the experience, but with this movie it didn’t matter. Every cast member was welcome on stage and they put the mic in your hand and you give your few cents to the discussion,” Blue adds. “I’ve experienced some different mainstream sets in the past three years and it’s not always like that.”
Blue, who last year also appeared in Netflix’s hit series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, portraying a L.A. County Jail inmate, says the Dutch III part “means the world” to him as he builds his mainstream acting resumé.
“Because it’s such a hard industry to step foot in and especially coming from adult and also using the same name in mainstream as I do in the adult industry,” Mick says. “So it’s kind of nice to see small little steps. Who knows, maybe in the future one thing can lead to another.”
Mick notes that he got the Dutch booking “fair and square”—he didn’t know anyone involved in the production, but he auditioned for the part in October 2023.
“Then I never heard anything back and then out of nowhere, in January [2024] they contacted me directly on my IMDb pro account and at first I thought it was a fake,” Blue admits. “So I was a little hesitant and thought probably nothing is going to come out of it. But then they started sending more and more details and a work contract and I said I guess it looks legit. And then at that point I involved my agent just to make sure it really was legit and it was in the end.”
He continues, “But it’s like one of those examples again—even with General Hospital—and now with Dutch III, they booked me because of my acting and because of what I bring to the table as an actor and not the other way around of who I know, or who owes me a favor. And in the end that just makes it sweeter. It’s like something that was achieved with hard work.”
Meanwhile, Blue says he will have a packed schedule in September as he will race at the NASA Championships, one of the marquee events of the National Auto Sport Association, Sept. 4-7 at Ozarks International Raceway in Gravois Mills, Missouri.
Mick will be piloting his Bad Dragon BMW in the Spec E46 class for the weekend; he already has clinched the Southern California Championship this season for Spec E46 with 11 wins and four second-place finishes.
“So we’ll see… Hopefully it goes as well as the regional league and I can come home with a few podiums,” Blue tells AVN.
Later that month, Blue will travel to Berlin to co-host the 2025 Venus Awards on Sept. 25 with Gabi Gold.
“That will be another new experience that I’m looking forward to,” Blue says.
