
Because of just how hard it is to watch the non-male gaze, for once.” I think women will really understand this film, better than guys will. “There were a couple of women, and they liked it. “At the screening there weren’t that many women or civilians,” Claire explained. They don’t ask us who we want to shoot with, most of these companies just book us with this random fucking male talent that supposedly are ‘good at keeping their dicks up.’ That’s the only requirement.”Ĭlaire thinks that people on Twitter who have not seen the film will unfairly pre-judge “Pleasure” based on the initial reactions from men at the screening, including Lance Hart and Braun. “How many times have I shot with somebody I don’t fucking like, and I don’t like their dick, but I gotta pretend I do?” she asked. I think it’s hard for them to see themselves. Through Bella’s perspective, Claire added, “you see how unsexy is, and then you see how it looks on the camera, and it’s sexy. “I think men are going to have a hard time watching a female-gaze film, period.” “I think it’s gonna be difficult for male viewers to watch this film,” Claire told XBIZ.
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The entire movie is shot from Bella’s perspective and her emotional struggle finding her voice and what her boundaries are.” So I think to discredit that this shit has happened is insulting to us talent that have gone through shit, been lied to, been told to act like everything is great for the sake of preserving this industry, when there is so much room for improvement.”Ĭlaire also urged people “to watch this movie to see that female perspective. "It’s important to remember that when Ninja was doing her research on the industry, as she interviewed everybody, she got some real, real stories from people," Claire said. Even Axel Braun said at the screening that, ‘It was too honest’ and that he felt that people would see this and hate our industry.” “It’s the rawest, but also the most honest. “The film is extremely hard to watch, I will admit,” Claire told XBIZ. She also repeatedly stressed that most of the “bad” things portrayed in the film about the industry are “things that happened” and that Thyberg shined a much-needed light on “many things about the industry that must change.” Ultimately, as she emphasized throughout the interview, Claire believes that initial reactions by older, male industry figures who after the screening declared themselves to have been “duped” by Thyberg into collaborating with an “anti-industry” project were due to a lack of understanding based on gender and generational issues.

In the course of an hour-long interview, Claire offered a staunch defense of Swedish director Thyberg’s intentions, aesthetics and creative approach, and of the potential for "Pleasure" to effect positive change in problematic aspects of the industry as experienced by talent.


LOS ANGELES - After the initial public reaction by some industry figures to an advance screening of “Pleasure,” Ninja Thyberg’s mainstream indie movie set in the porn world, co-star Evelyn Claire, who also attended the Hollywood screening, spoke to XBIZ to explain why she believes this is “an important film” that could prove “good for the adult industry.”
