RIZZO (pointing, laughing) I love the mustache on the owl! That’s amazing!

(Everyone cracks up.)

Off-screen Nikki: That’s awesome! Glad you like it.

RIZZO: That’s the best.

Off-screen Nikki: Hipster owl is wise.

NIKKI: (sniffs) my nose is running ‘cuz I’m cold.

RIZZO: Oh no!

NIKKI: I’ll try not to snot on you.

RIZZO: It happens.

OS: OK, I’m focused and I’m good. Are you good?

OS2: Yeah. Can we do another walk-in?

OS: Sure.

OS2: OK.

OS: Alright so we’ll do one more walk-in.

RIZZO: Ok. Go in this way?

OS: Yeah, you’ll just pass my camera on this side.

RIZZO: Right. OK, cool.

NIKKI: So how did you enjoy the shoot today?

RIZZO: I had a lot of fun! It was nice, it was like… having sex with an actual partner, and not… usual porno sex.

NIKKI: Yeah. Since uh… since my lash–last Crash Pad suit–shoot! Geez, I can’t even talk! I’m like, (blah), I’m ready for a nap. Um. No, since my last shoot here I’ve done
so much, like, mainstream stuff and they tell you, like ,every move you have to make a lot of the time, and like, it’s not, fun, it’s not—

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: Like, I finish and then I don’t feel like I just had sex, I feel like I just touched someone a bunch how someone told me to.

RIZZO: Exactly. It was very… real.

NIKKI: Yeah.

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: Indeed.

RIZZO: It’s, it’s nice not having people shouting direction at you. (laughing)

NIKKI: Yeah. cutting… closeups… softcore and hardcore, come now.

RIZZO: Yeah exactly… It’s like, no, I don’t want to.

NIKKI: Right.

(Sex happens)

RIZZO: What did you find challenging about the shoot?

NIKKI: Um, I mean as far as like shooting here goes, like, nothing is challenging, it’s like super easy to shoot here. But on a personal level, like, it’s Halloween weekend
right now, so, I’m a little… partied out and exhausted, so…

RIZZO: (Laughs) for sure!

NIKKI: So on my own level, I was like, “I am outta shape right now” (both laugh), getting all winded and definitely, like, ready for a good sleep after this.

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: But… yeah, other than that…

RIZZO: Yeah. I feel like, because we know each other, and like, we have like that personal connection, it’s really hard to be kind of serious

NIKKI: Yeah.

RIZZO: You know, like?

NIKKI: I kinda just wanna like fuck around, and make it not—

RIZZO: Exactly… and giggle, and like, be silly.

NIKKI: Yeah.

RIZZO: So it’s like really hard to just kind of like turn that switch off.

NIKKI: It’s true. It’s hard to, like, find a balance of like real and nice but not just like goofing around.

RIZZO: Exactly. For sure.

NIKKI: Yeah. That’s a good point.

(Sex scene)

NIKKI: Can we cut for a second? Sorry, I need water, I can’t keep making sound…
(everyone cracks up)

???

NIKKI: ?? …spoon position, it’s like punching me, myself in the stomach (demonstrates).

RIZZO: Oh yeah.

NIKKI: So I get, like… ??

OS: I am rolling (??) I have your hands. Feel free to clap.

R(?): No, please don’t!

(Claps)

OS: It’s never not funny!

(Laughter. People on the set seem unconvinced.)

OS(?): ?? …. Just have them tested, they’re clean.

??: Enough laughing, more fucking!

OS: ??

RIZZO: You guys. Sex is really serious.

(General giggling.)

OS: Alllrightie. Okay, whenever you guys are ready.

RIZZO: Cool.

NIKKI: Uh, what are your safer sex practices? And why?

RIZZO: Um, I believe very firmly in getting tested on a regular basis, um, which I do, both me and my partner try to get tested on a regular basis, which is great, um, and
if we do either ever incorporate any outside people, making sure that those people are also tested frequently, or are um, using barriers such as condoms and gloves.

NIKKI: Cool.

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: Yeah. I’m, um, I mean, I’m in a long-term monogamous relationship too—

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: And she’s completely monogamous, and so am I, other than work, and obviously everybody’s tested for work…

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: But um… I just recently started performing a little bit with, like, cis men, and in that case, I only use condoms—

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: Because I just, I’m a worrier, and I would—

RIZZO: Makes sense

NIKKI: I’m not on birth control or anything, so like, I don’t wanna get pregnant, and it’s a little more high risk with… “the ween.” (laughing) So, I use condoms, for sure.

RIZZO: There you go.

NIKKI: Yeah.

(Sex scene… N & R collapse on each other)

NIKKI: I’m worn out.

Everyone off-screen: yaaay! (laughing) Everyone’s tired! Who-hoo!

NIKKI: I like haven’t slept in three, days, I’m like, (collapses).

RIZZO: DO I HAVE TO KEEP GOING?? I CAN’T TAKE ANY MORE ORGASM.

RIZZO: Yhy do you keep doing porn?

NIKKI: Um, I mean, I originally did porn mostly to do like queer porn for the message I was trying to convey, which was like, positive—sex positivity and consent and all kinds of stuff like that, and then I loved it so much that I was like, I wanna do this full-time, and now I do it because, I mean, it’s my job, but, it’s the only job I’ve ever had that I didn’t, like, hate. (chuckles) I love my job. I mean, it’s got its, its difficulties and its challenges of course… in mainstream porn there’s lots of BS to deal with, really—

RIZZO: Right.

NIKKI: But, like, it’s still the best job I’ve ever had.

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: What about you?

RIZZO: I, I mean, I started doing it because, I mean, I started off nude modeling, and I was just all like, well, I want to take it to the next level, and I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to keep doing it, and because I only do it when I feel like it, it’s great and it gives me a lot more freedom to choose who I want to work with, um, and when the… opportunity came up to work with crash pad I was just like yeah I’ll totally do it, I love queer porn, I love queers, I am queer, I totally want to be a part of this community.

NIKKI: Yeah.

RIZZO: And I just, I love it, I’ve met… awesome people through it (gestures to Nikki), um, and it’s, it’s fun.

NIKKI: Yeah.

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: Totally.

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: Um. Yeah, like, like you were just saying, like, I met you at Chicago Exotica—

RIZZO: Yep!

NIKKI: And I went to that because I really wanted to work with Burning Angel—

RIZZO: Yep!

NIKKI: And you, like, found me and you were like, “You’re cool” and I was like, “Well you’re cool” and so you kind of hooked me up with Burning Angel which has become like a big part of my life, and you wanted to do Crash Pad which I was kind of more in with—

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: So we like, traded off on industry sides.

RIZZO: Yeah.

NIKKI: Great success! (Fist pump)

RIZZO: Oh yeah! (laughing)

NIKKI: A good deal. And we’re friends.

RIZZO: Yay!

NIKKI: Yep. So. Good stuff.

RIZZO: And nothing’s better than getting to choose who you work with.

NIKKI: Totally. Yes. We’ve been trying to shoot a queer porn scene together for, like… two years now?

RIZZO: Yeah. Forever. (laughs)

(They high-five)

RIZZO: Huzzah, we did it! Yay!