Vivid girls are good sports; they don’t actually answer their phones while working – where would they keep them?
Here Monique Alexander poses with James Deen on the set of her Tease Me.
Samantha Ryan was also in the movie, which called for nudity.
Read more after the gap. See a gallery here.
The director B. Skow and Vivid producer Shailar were on hand in the hills above Studio City. I have been to two of their shoots before; each time I spend much of the day laughing.
Porn shoots should be like this all the time. Everything got done, there were no hysterics, no one was late, no one wandered off and had to be called back when shooting resumed because there’d been too much of a break. My rigid sense of order was maintained.
The last time I saw Monique Alexander in person, she was blowing Derrick Pierce in a coffin.
“The last time I saw you,” I said, “you were blowing Derrick Pierce in a coffin.”
“That hurt my back,” she said, “but the job got done.” She is a professional.
There were about ten cast and crew assembled in a music producer’s house across the Valley from the Hollywood sign. I wanted to get a picture of Ryan and Alexander standing with the Hollywood sign on one side and Porn Valley on the other. It could be the cover of a Chamber of Commerce brochure.
I wasn’t able to get exactly the shot I wanted, such is my commitment to professionalism. Alexander and Ryan were very accommodating, though.
Instead, I got this picture. It is so geometrically perfect it’s like the photo was taken by ancient astronauts.
Together, Shailar and Skow have worked at Vivid for about a decade more than Monique Alexander has been alive. (I will send a porn movie to the first person who can notate that algebraically.) I find stories of long-term employment in any entertainment industry comforting; it also helps the mood of a set when you’re with people who seem secure in their jobs.
Skow is my elder. He told me about the practice of upper-decking. I imagined planning whole vacations around this practice, like others do with golf.
After I arrived, the day went like this:
1. Alexander’s scene with Deen
2. Lunch
3. Still pictures with Ryan
4. Alexander’s scene with Ryan
After what I thought was 45 miutes, I looked at my watch and realized I’d been there for five hours, watching Monique Alexander have sex, eating, and talking about alternative defecation methods. As I drove down the hill I thought that just one of those things would have made a perfect day on its own.
(Then I wondered what I was doing with my life, but that was more about continuing to give Whole Foods my money than visiting porn sets.)
See a gallery here.
Previously: Fiat Lux Kassidy; Hirsch’s Heavies heave haunches heavenward;
See also: Vivid
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