As most of you read yesterday, Serenity officially announced her retirement from adult videos yesterday. She has been mostly absent from the video world since leaving Wicked Pictures a few years ago but has been very active with her toy company, Las Vegas Novelties (www.lvni.com) and her web site www.serenity.net. She was kind enough to take a few moments out of her very busy day to talk with me about the retirement and a few things on her plate. I’d like to take a few minutes to share some of that with you and talk a bit about this very special performer.
I am sure most of you have also read that Serenity is pregnant. That much is true my friends. I congratulation both Serenity and her husband Steve on this wonderful blessing.
During her decade or so in adult films, Serenity accomplished a number of things. She is the only woman to ever win back-to-back “Best Actress” awards from AVN and starred in the then record-breaking movie “Double Feature.” (I believe Fashionistas beat DF by one award.) She also remains the only female performer in the six-year history of the Rog Reviews Fan Faves to win the award twice. Despite being a big contract star, a fan favorite and a decorated actress, the Performer of the Year award from both AVN and XRCO somehow managed to elude the beautiful blonde with the fantastic butt. I asked her if there were any regrets about these awards snubs, but Serenity focused mostly on the positive. When I reminded her about her status as the sole RRFF winner she said “Really? I’m flattered by that and honored.” When I pressed her a bit she did come up with one award she might have enjoyed winning. “I think I should have won a best anal award along the way.” (In case anyone doesn’t get the joke, Serenity had perhaps the finest untouched ass in all of porn.) I suggested to her that perhaps AVN needs to come up with an award for Best Non-Anal Ass.
When asked what she was most proud of, Serenity had lots of good things to say. “It would be hard to pick on thing, but I am quite proud of the work I have done with PETA. I am also very happy with the work I did with the C-Channel. The awards have been nice and I loved getting to travel the world and meet people from around the globe.”
Everyone knows that Serenity teamed with director Jonathan Morgan and script-writer Martin Brimmer for classics like “Double Feature”, but there was another movie she did for Wicked that was directed by Michael Zen and penned by yours truly. “Guilty Pleasures” is one of about fifteen scripts I’ve written and is easily the best finished product of the bunch. I am quite proud of that movie and have Serenity to thank for it. She went to bat for the script and finally got it approved. “That was a lot of fun to do.” She said. “I still hear from people who loved that movie.” Personally I loved being on set that day to watch how Zen was able to turn my words into something on film. (Getting to watch Serenity masturbate was just perk.) Serenity’s retirement from videos means that the sequel to “Guilty Pleasures” will not be done. I’m sure the world will get over that part though.
I noticed in the press release that the wording was rather careful. It said that she was retiring from “professional adult video.” When asked about that Serenity assured me that her decision does not rule out any mainstream work or the possibility of some more adult modeling or even more. “If I do any nude modeling or video work it will be for my web site” she said. With great hope I asked if that meant we could possibly still do a scene together, she laughed politely and added “sure, you never know.”
As Serenity closes this chapter on her life and begins a number of new ones I wish her the best of luck. In my ten years in this business, few performers have been so kind and open to me. She is a beautiful woman, a great performer and I am proud to consider her a friend. Her on screen performances will be missed, but we can all be thankful that she’s still around to bring her positive energy to everything she does. Now we can just count the days until she enters the AVN and XRCO hall of fame.