Porn Valley Dispatch: David Aaron Clark’s Process

When casting "Asian Prostitute #2", as director David Aaron Clark did this week for his upcoming film "Doll Parts", having Gary Glitter's "Do You Wanna Touch?" playing during the photo session was spot-on and unfortunate at the same time. In a playlist full of glam and Johnny Cash, the song was quickly lost, and it never registered with the delightful Ruby Luxe, whose only crime is that she's 24.

Read more about Clark and Luxe after the gap. - GP

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Not every AVN award means nothing. Clark has won several, including Best Screenplay for 2000's "Euphoria". But Clark is best known in the porn realm (it was declared a realm by the U.N. in 2003) for his work pairing Asian performers with the likes of DAC-movie standbys like Sledge Hammer, Brian Surewood, and Clark himself.

I knew I had seen this library before.

"Doll Parts" will be Clark's highest-budget feature, produced by the same company that cleaned up at AVN with last year's "Corruption". Sasha Grey plays the lead, and relative newcomer Luxe (she has performed in six movies, which in porn terms is like the career of Terrence Malick) was an inspired find.

"I stalked her on MySpace," Clark said.

Luxe is going to school in San Diego and turns 25 soon after graduation. I asked the first-generation American daughter of a Chinese/Vietnamese family if other directors in her experience had prepared her by lending her Wong Kar Wai's "2046".

"No," she said. "But this will be my first big movie. When I did the foot fetish movie, I just had to show up."

· DAC (davidaaronclark.com)
· Ruby Luxe (myspace.com)

Previously: DVD Review: "Dreaming of Snow", Porn Valley Dispatch Archive