January 21, 2021 |
Mia Malkova on Blackberry Castle, Muse & Content Creation |
LOS ANGELESâMia Malkova wants her new castle to become a haven for adult content production, a place where her fellow performers can be creative and thrive. âWe hope to invite a lot of girls to the castle and fly them out and shoot them here,â Malkova tells AVN. âWe want everything to be done right. âWe want the girls to feel very comfortable and we want to shoot very high-quality gonzo scenes is what weâre thinking.â The superstar performer, who won the 2014 AVN Award for Best New Starlet, realized a dream with her recent purchase of Blackberry Castle, a 13,000 square foot, 6.5 acre luxury estate in Portland, Oregon. She and her boyfriendâadult producer/director Eli Tuckerâand a silent partner acquired the stunning property for $3.9 million in December and intend to turn it into a âDisneylandâ for adult content shoots. Malkova and Tucker already have begun renovating the castleâs many rooms as they prepare to ramp up production for their new label, Muse, in the coming weeks. The content for Muse will be available on the studioâs OnlyFans page. They already have installed hardwood floors and now have turned their attention to interior decorating. âThe castle feels like itâs not finished,â Malkova explains. âThere is so much that needs to be done and the place is huge. We want every room to be some sort of theme and weâre going to start with the master bedroom. We like the idea of sort of a Disneyland-type of houseâmagical and immersive." Tucker tells AVN the property cost the original owners $7.2 million to build four years ago. âWeâre really stoked on it,â Tucker says. âWe have the blueprints and receipts for everything. They went all out on the architecture. They had a muralist hand-paint the ceilings. There is reclaimed wood in the library, river rock from Bend, Oregon, a three-story fireplace, an underground wine cellar built into the side of this mountain and the largest ceiling clock in the Pacific Northwest.â Malkova, a native of Southern California who debuted in adult in 2012, says walking around her new second home is nothing short of âsurreal.â âHonestly, I really like fantasy. I like all the geeky things,â Malkova jokes. âI saw this property about a year ago on Zillow, when we were looking for property in Oregon. It has its own theater and a Roman bath... Itâs just beautiful. âI saved it and just said this is my dream home, maybe someday. But I had no intention of ever getting it.â Malkova last year did buy her first home, which she describes as âa little log cabinâ near Oregon's Mt. Hood National Forest âthatâs been amazing to live in.â But then when the castle came back on the market recently, Malkova and Tucker got serious about it. âOur cabin doesnât have great internet and I like streaming on Twitch, so I was looking for another spot and the Castle was available again. We did the numbers and we said, âWe could get this...â And we went for it,â Malkova adds. Malkova and Tucker intend to keep their cabin, which will be their main residence, while they use Blackberry Castle as their work space. She says itâs been more than two years since she last shot a scene for someone other than for her own platform. âIâm happy doing what Iâm doing. I like making my own schedule and choosing my own wardrobe, hiring my own makeup artist. I'm really enjoying building my own brand and shooting the content that I love,â says Malkova, who has flourished on OnlyFans. âI like to focus a lot of my content around cosplay and nature. Those are two things Iâm trying to put more effort into. I find it a lot more more rewarding working for myself and getting residuals instead of a daily check, and doing things how I want to do them in the comfort of my own home.â Malkova says she is thankful to have reached this point in her career. âI feel blessed,â she continues, adding that she does not consider herself âretiredâ from performing for other studios. But it would have to be a particular project. âIf there is something that piques my interest, Iâll do it,â she says. Malkovaâs enormous social media following includes more than 7.4 million on Instagram and another 1.2 million on Twitter, making her one of the most followed adult performers in the world. âMy Instagram is doing very well,â she says. âI would say I became very passionate about the photos I was taking and I became very consistent.â Malkova recalls how she used to not be the biggest fan of social media a few years ago because she likes being a private person. âBut I really fell in love with it when I started dating my current boyfriend who is a photographer,â she says. âNow itâs fun, and I think me becoming passionate about it was what helped it grow so fast. Iâm struggling with Instagram right now because there is this war on sex workers going on. Thereâs a huge purge going on and Iâve noticed a lot of sex workersâ accounts are dropping.â She says her Instagram has been shadow-banned since Instagramâs latest update on Dec. 20. âThatâs unfortunate and thatâs something Iâm trying to work on, but I still think itâs worth putting effort into it.â Malkova started her Twitch channel two years ago and has fallen in love with the community. âIâve had a lot of success. Itâs something Iâm passionate about. I love gaming and I love the community. I love that I can do it from home,â she says. âThere is massive potential for it to be lucrative but I donât really care about that. Itâs more of a passion project. I havenât been on Twitch for five or six months because our cabin didnât have great internet, so Iâm excited to have internet at the castle." The performer says she likes to save most of her game-time for live streams. She has clocked more than 400 hours playing The Witcher, completing every Side Quest in the process. Sometimes she plays Among Us on her phone, but has yet to play on Twitch. âI like fantasy role-playing games,â she says. âI hope to get back into World of Warcraft, Tomb Raider, Assassinâs Creed, the new Harry Potter game. Malkova worked at two jobs before adult. She was a cashier at McDonaldâs at 16 and two years later she worked as a hostess at Sizzler. âI actually loved both of them,â she says. âThe McDonalds one I would have fun at but it was so close to the high school and sometimes I would see my friends come in and I was a little embarrassed about it. â⦠I loved my job there at Sizzler. It was just fun, I liked the people I worked with. It was easy to talk to the customers. I was never bored. ⦠I did have sex with one of my managers at Sizzler. I hit on him while we were at work and we went out afterwards.â The Arizona native Tucker, meanwhile, broke into adult in 2015 after years working as a line cook in Portland and then Alaska, where he also was a sous chef at Mt. McKinley Wilderness Lodge for Princess Cruises. A year before he began shooting porn, he was photographing weddings. But it was while he was an apprentice videographer and photographer at Vixen Media Group that he learned from one of the bestâthe now-retired three-time AVN Director of the Year Greg Lansky, who co-founded the company. âI worked hand in hand with Greg Lansky and he fast-tracked me,â Tucker says. âWe started Blacked Raw together [in fall of 2017]. I was the sole director of that brand for the first year-and-a-half or so. I was working with him closely.â Now independent and the co-owner of Muse, Tucker has been shooting Malkovaâs content for the past two years and is ready to take his productions to the next level this year. âI want to shoot my first professional scene here at the Castle for Muse on Valentineâs Day,â Tucker says. âWeâve spent a significant amount of money on renovations and furnishing the home. Weâre waiting for a lot stuff. The previous owners were married for a while and this was kind of their dream home they were building. Iâd say they got three quarters of the way through the build. âBut they didnât get to finish all the plans they had.â Malkova says Blackberry Castle has become well known in Portland. Their acquisition already has made national news as The Oregonian and the New York Post are among the mainstream news outlets that have documented the purchase. âEverybody knows about Blackberry Castle, but nobody has really known what it looks like inside,â Malkova says. âThatâs something we have to do, especially after the renovations, is shoot a lot of content tailored to this.â âItâs still surreal," she adds. "⦠Iâm not used to it.â Photography by Eli Tucker
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