This features appears in the February issue of AVN magazine.
LOS ANGELES—Briana Moon always had a love for the movies. By the time she graduated college she was ready to embark on an acting career. But having seen firsthand the challenges actors face in her native Russia, she found herself reassessing her career choices and soon found herself on a porn set in Mexico ready to take on two guys at once.
“I found an advertisement online to shoot porn in Mexico and I was learning Spanish, and I wanted to practice Spanish with someone,” she said. “So I felt, okay, I can travel to Mexico, shoot porn, make money and learn Spanish. It’s perfect.”
Although Moon knew nothing about how porn is made, or how much performers got paid, the comely blonde arrived on set for the Legal Porno shoot she agreed to do a double penetration.
“I didn’t know what a DP was, I knew anal, because I did anal in my personal life," she said. "But it was like, they said ‘okay we’ll do this and this’ and I was having fun, but I never had dick in my pussy and another in my ass, but I learned very fast.”
During the same trip, she shot her second scene—a double anal, before heading home and getting her porn career in high gear in Europe. Moon would go on to shoot for Private, Digital Sin, MetArt, Fitness Rooms and others before meeting veteran stud and AVN Hall of Fame member Marco Banderas in Prague, Czech Republic in 2016.
The two quickly hit it off and by the end of the year they were married as they also joined forces in several shoots in Europe.
Despite being 19 while Banderas was 49, Moon and her new husband were inseparable and helped support one another at each other’s shoots.
“I was young and I just started in the industry and he already had a good career here in L.A.” she recalled. “So when I met him, I was very impressed with his attitude and he was very charismatic and I wanted to be like him.”
Briana soon threw herself into the industry by tapping her creative side by showing her enthusiasm and ability to connect with her partners with ease. Having learned English while in school, she was able to understand European directors and performers while also practicing her English as she and her husband traveled back and forth between their homebase in Spain and the rest of Europe.
But as her career flourished, she and Banderas began growing apart.
Today, the buxom blonde is enjoying single life while continuing her porn career after having divorced last year. With a home in Spain and investment properties in Europe and Asia, Moon sees herself as more of an entrepreneur than an adult star.
“Sometimes I like spending money on something I really like or makes me happy, but I don’t buy something expensive just to look cool or if I like a good car, I have a normal car in Spain. I could buy a more expensive car, but why? I don’t need this. I don’t need to prove anything to anybody.”
As for the lessons she’s learned from her time in the industry, Moon was clear about the benefits of positivity on set. “I don’t judge anyone. I always try to understand everybody. It doesn’t matter your situation right now because things change very fast,” she said. “So I always like to see the real person besides the actor or whatever because you can have money right now or be very successful, but what if you don’t have it tomorrow? Then what? You stay positive.”
Photography by @kogafoto
