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Leana Lovings: 2022 Adult Empire Pornstar of the Year

Smartphones changed the world by giving people easy access to pornography on a fully private device. Gone was the era of the porn cinema, the adult DVD store, and the smutty magazine. Suddenly, anyone with a phone had the ability to access adult materials with a few taps of a button. Did we mention that 97% of Americans now own a smartphone? At this point, an entire generation has grown up with ready access to porn and a knowledge of its cinematic grammar.

When people of that very same generation joined the adult industry, it had an inevitable impact on performance style. Leana Lovings, born in the late 1990s, embodies this evolution better than anyone. Watch her in action and you’ll see someone who draws on the porn she has seen. She displays knowing nods to notable porn genres such as hentai while simultaneously projecting sincerity, warmth, and humanity.

By her own admission, she blossomed sexually only after beginning her camming and porn career. She demonstrates a clear affection for the flavors of the past, but she is still very much a pornstar quintessentially of the present. That’s why we’re proud to name her the 2022 Adult Empire Pornstar of the Year! (This prize is given out each December to the star who is thought to be most representative of the year in porn. Prior winners include Angela White, Emily Willis, and Cherie DeVille.)

After cutting her teeth as a cam star, she joined the industry late last year. Her intelligence and kindness made an immediate impression, both in the scenes she shot and the interviews she granted. (Adult Empire was fortunate enough to have Lovings as a guest on the AE Podcast earlier this year. Listen here!) Her first studio shoot was But I Have A Girlfriend Now from My Pervy Family, and more recently she has appeared in Elegant Angel‘s Nerdy Girls 3. Empire Pornstar of the Year may be one of the very first awards Lovings has snared, but it will undoubtedly not be the last.

To mark the occasion, we sat down with Lovings for a new in-depth interview about her big year in porn. Check out highlights below. Listen to the full interview to hear Lovings delve into many other topics, including the best advice she’s received, her quirky passion for Polaroids, her embarrassing CVS experience, video game memories, retro trends, the fantasy scene she’d like to shoot in a vintage Blockbuster, the intimacy of holding hands, surprising fetishes, ASMR, performers she’d be starstruck by, her Blacked shoot, holidays, the ins and outs of pornstar interviews, and more.

Leana Lovings Interview

What’s your reaction to being named Adult Empire Pornstar of the Year?

Oh, it is extremely exciting news. I just want to say thank you so much. This was an honor that I was absolutely not expecting. But I am so extremely grateful to have been given it. When I wake up, and I see this trophy in my bedroom on the shelf, I just I feel so humbled, so extremely humbled and so grateful. Thank you so much. I’m very glad that all of my work paid off as well. It was a lot of scenes getting to this point. It’s my first year in porn. I never thought that I would to win anything on my first year. But it’s absolutely amazing. It feels extremely surreal. So thank you!

Who would you thank if you were giving an acceptance speech?

Absolutely, number one, I would love to thank my fans for always being there with me and for supporting me on my entire journey because I could not have done any of this without their support. And I’d like to thank my agency, my agents that were there to organize and schedule everything, because it was a very sharp learning curve getting used to the industry, and they gave me indispensable advice. And I would love to thank my friends who’ve been my support group this entire time every time I come home.

Has 2022 surprised you?

Absolutely, I can say that quite confidently. January 1, and February, I was moving into a new apartment. I was starting fresh, I’d taken a small break from shoots in order to have everything organized and things had been a little bit slow. In the beginning, there was just this low that everyone gets in the beginning of the year. The industry is kind of starting fresh again. And when I was at that point, I thought, “Gee, I wonder what’s going to happen by the end of the year. I wonder what projects I’m going to work on and what experiences I’ll make.”

I remember my New Year’s resolution, and it was that I was going to continue to make memories with everyone that I’ve met in the industry. And now that I’m here, I realized that everything had exploded. I mean, there are so many releases this month [November] alone. And in my body of work, it’s just I had not expected that things would ramp up so quickly and I’m very glad for that. The quality of the projects that I’m involved in, the charming people that I’ve met along the way, my fellow actors, it’s been absolutely wonderful. And none of it was ever expected.

What would viewers learn if they watched your entire body of work?

I think that they would learn that sex is fluid. And as strange as that sounds, sexuality in itself is something that you have to discover with time. I came into porn August, September of last year, and I only had two sexual experiences under my belt. I had only had sex twice before I came in. And my very first scene was with Isiah Maxwell. And it was a very intense and amazing experience. But it’s something that if you look at that very first scene, and you look now, at my debut for Elegant Angel, you can see a very clear difference. One of those things that I absolutely enjoy, in terms of comparison, is my level of participation. And my very first scene, you can tell that I’m absolutely enjoying it. I’m so caught up, my facial expressions are ones of bewilderment, and I’m just so overwhelmed by everything. But Isiah is moving me around. Because I’m not sure where to put my body. And at Elegant Angel, I’m far more confident in positioning myself, I’m engaged far more, because I’ve learned from the history of my sexual experiences, how to interact with someone else’s body. And I think that that is something that people would recognize. They would recognize my period of growth and learning when it comes to interaction.

Talk working with Elegant Angel this year.

I was absolutely astounded by the crew that I was working with. They had everything prepared so well in advance. And when I arrived on set, they gave me the script that I had been reading through already. And I felt like I was prepared to give my best performance. And I remember that I was so nervous that I had memorized every word line for line throughout all of the patients. I remember as we started filming, they were like, “Wow, you really remembered everything, didn’t you?” And it’s absolutely true. One of my scenes it was with Ramon Nomar. And I just remember how courteous he was in the process of our filming. I’m never going to forget my Elegant Angel debut.

Talk about an interesting fetish or theme you delved into recently.

I was just doing a quick stream and I was bouncing on a balloon and people were finding it extremely sexual. They thought that the way that the balloon was just sort of squishing under my body gently as they asked me to kind of hump the balloon — it was something that they genuinely really wanted to see. It was so unusual for me. And yet I very much enjoyed being able to grant that experience to them.

Have you met or worked with any of the previous Pornstar of the Year winners, such as Angela White?

Angela White, goodness, I believe that I may have seen her at the XRCO Awards in 2022. I was a trophy girl at that time, handing other people their trophies as they won awards. And I think that’s the most amount of interaction that I would have had. It’s so amazing being able to have the honor to just be so close to stars that have had so much experience. I’m not I’m not surprised at all that and I’m glad that Angela White has received so many honors.

Can pornography be art?

I absolutely think that pornography can be art and I absolutely see it that way. I see every piece that I’ve made as an expression of my artistic desire. I am an artist. In my free time I actually have a 20, 25 inch drawing tablets sitting beside me right now. You can’t see it, but it’s bigger than I am. And it’s something that I draw with on a daily basis. I make digital art. And when I don’t have time to express what’s in my mind, I feel like almost what takes greater value to me is what I can express with my body. Every year, every emotion, every word that I share, I feel like I’m putting all of myself into it. And I hope that everyone sees it as art because of that, because of all the love that I put into it.

The way that I see it, people say that art is supposed to make you feel something. And if arousal is what porn makes you feel, then it is still invoking something inside of you. And that is the core of what art needs to be. It’s all about expression and emotion and perception. You know, some people are amazed or surprised or freaked out by something that they might see in a video. And so porn evokes extremely strong opinions that affect us to this day. I think that because of that, it’s a perfect example of art and it should continue to be seen that way.

Do you hope to be an ambassador for porn?

I wholeheartedly want to represent porn. As a girl, and as a woman that is exploring her sexuality, I hope that I can be a symbol of inspiration for other girls, other women who are interested in joining the industry, I want to be able to show them that there is a healthy way to approaching the industry, and that there is a way to engage in it. Where it’s not the stereotypical perspective of people outside of the industry saying “Oh, porn is shameful. You’ll feel bad about it.” It’s something that you should feel proud of. And I want to be there as an ambassador for porn and represent that.

What’s next for Leana Lovings?

Well, I think I should say that I don’t want to reveal too much. I have a lot of very special things that are coming out, but I actually can’t talk about them. I wish that I could. But I can say that everyone should really look forward to December. And that is as much as I’m going to say on that. But I have a lot, a lot, a lot of scenes I’m continually filming and I really hope that everybody enjoys it because it is extremely special to me.

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