September 29, 2021 |
Sky's the Limit: Vina Sky Takin' Care of Business On, Off the Set |
This is the cover story of the November issue of AVN magazine. Click here for the digital edition. LOS ANGELESâVina Sky goes into her sex scenes with one goal in mind. Dominate. âI love that I have a reputation that I didnât even realize I was building for myself,â Sky says. âIâm here to just kill it and do my job. âI love when I can go to the set and just kill the day.â Itâs why the Vietnamese performer has become one of the fastest rising stars in adult entertainment in the past three years. She may be slight in physical stature, but she delivers towering performances when the cameras roll. The 5-foot, 95-pound sexual athlete in October lined up opposite two of the top male performers in the worldâDredd and Manuel Ferraraâand gave as good as she got. âSheâs amazing,â says Ferrara, the French deal-closer who is the only six-time winner of the AVN Male Performer of the Year award. âSheâs like the full package. Sheâs what you look for in a performer. âSheâs beautiful and she loves sex. Itâs like the perfect girl in the industry.â Ferrara performed an anal scene with Vina under the direction of Jules Jordan. âIâm a big boy and I have a big dick and when you see such a small body like hers, I didnât know how good she was with anal,â Ferrara recalls. âBut it comes down to one thingâdo you enjoy anal and do you do it for the right reason? Obviously she does, and it shows. And that makes everything so simple. âGirls like Vina make things not a job for me. You forget about the camera and just have great sex.â Sky tells AVN that Ferrara did not realize their scene included butt sex when he arrived on the set. âAnd all he did was give me a fist bump,â Vina says. âI think people know that Iâm a strong performer because they donât really doubt like, âCan she do it? Can she take it?â âAfter the scene Manuel said âI canât believe Iâve never worked with you.â Obviously, heâs an amazing performer and when I met him it just validated all that.â When Sky collided with Dredd for their fan sites in early October, the result was the same. She handled the veteran studâs XXL package with ease. âShe was great,â Dredd tells AVN. âWe have two other things lined up and both of them are in early Decemberâone thing for Jules and then weâre gonna do something else. Thatâs how well things went. âI knew she was great, but I hadnât shot with her yet so I couldnât really vouch but she is a helluva performer. I gotta give her all the credit. She just really came and killed it that day. ⦠Sheâs all that.â The New York native Dredd, who has shot porn full time for about seven yearsâin two stintsâsays Vina made sure it was a no-doubter from beginning to end. âThere was no moment where it was like, âHold on, this may not work,ââ Dredd continues. âShe just really went in hard. Thatâs why I was so quick to say, âWe gotta run this back.ââ Stay tuned for the rematch. âA lot of my fans were dying to see this matchup with me and my size and her and her size and she couldnât have handled it any better,â Dredd adds. âWe made the most of it. But everybody knows Jules is gonna take it to another level.â The Hall of Fame shooter Jules Jordan has captured Sky in action no less than 10 times since 2019, featuring her in two volumes of Slut Puppies (13 & 15), Invasian 5 and in the 15th installment of his iconic series, Flesh Hunter, that was released earlier this year. In several of those scenes, Jordan personally did the honors with the Asian sensation, sometimes along with frequent tag-team partner Steve Holmes. âIn the past few years there has been a bit of a drought with Asian talent, but Vina has been a shining star in the industry,â Jordan tells AVN. âShe has a tiny but curvy body with great contours. She can switch between nasty and classy very easily⦠âItâs common for her to be on a Playboy set one day and an Evil Angel/Jules Jordan set the next⦠She loves what she does and it really shows. I try to shoot her as much as possible when she is available.â Heâs not alone. Any time Skyâs name appears on the call sheet everyone knows itâs going to be a good day. Just ask seasoned director/glamour photographer Holly Randall, who calls Sky âdefinitely one of my favorite girls to work with.â âNot only is she beautiful and an incredible mover (I donât have to give her much direction at all), sheâs a true chameleon who can embrace any role you give her,â Randall tells AVN. âSheâs also very professional and completely focused on whatever project sheâs working on. âIâve shot her in some pretty uncomfortable scenarios and she never complained once. Her devotion to her craft and her fun personality make her an absolute pleasure to shoot.â Dean Capture agrees. The popular erotic photographer remembers first working with Sky when he shot her February 2020 âCherry of the Monthâ feature content for CherryPimps. âShe was so beautiful and creative,â Capture tells AVN. âWe brainstormed about her shoot and since it would be showcased in February, she wanted to shoot a Valentineâs feature, which turned out beautifully. âSince then Iâve shot her numerous times for her fan site and for promotion of her signature Fleshlight. âVina is one of the hardest working performers that Iâve ever worked with. Sheâs constantly on the move creating beautiful scenes for either her fan site or for some of the biggest studios in the industry. I will forever jump at the chance to get her in front of my cameraâsheâs amazing.â Represented by East Coast Talent since the beginning of her career, the 22-year-old native of Houston has amassed almost 350 credits since 2018. âIt is a pleasure to represent Vina, she works hard and gives every scene her all,â says East Coast Talent owner John OâByrne. âI am very proud of her and stoked that others are seeing her commitment to the industry and her rabid fan base. I look forward to her continued success and helping her along the way.â *** Sky hustled at multiple part-time jobs before adult. She worked as a waitress at Sonic, held down drive-thru shifts at McDonaldâs and then got behind the desk as a receptionist at an engineering company. But the one job where she never found herself clock-watching was at Cindieâs, an adult retail chain in Houston. âI would work overtime there,â Vina says. âIt would be 6:40 and Iâd still be there doing something. That kind of triggered everything for me.â While she worked at Cindieâs, she also briefly dabbled with webcamming on Streamate and even gave some of her customers the link to check out her live streams when she wasnât at the store. âI didnât grow up like sticking toothbrushes in my pussy. I was never that kind of girl,â Sky continues. âI was mellow and shy, but somehow at the sex shop I just knew what everything was for. I knew exactly what everything was, what this toy was used for or what the reason was for this toy⦠âAnd I started realizing that for some reason I must be into this stuff. A lot of guys would come in and joke with me, âAre you in any of these DVDs?â And I would smile and laugh and it was flattering.â Three-and-a-half years later, Vina stars in more than 300 DVDs and has established herself as one of pornâs A-listers with a fanbase that includes 343,000-plus followers on Twitter alone and what would be about half a million on Instagram if she hadnât already been deleted eight times. âI almost feel in a sense this was meant for me,â says Sky, the first-generation Vietnamese American who already has her own Fleshlight. Unveiled this past June, the arrival of her signature toy marked a surreal moment for the performer who used to stock the shelves at Cindieâs with them. Sky received interest in molding her privates from another novelty company early in her career, but she opted to hold out. âI never was in contact in with Fleshlight, but I decided to wait and almost just manifested it. I just thought about it and the energy was there,â she says. âI didnât see why I didnât deserve to be a Fleshlight Girl and now I am oneâand I think aside from Asa Akira and Tera Patrick Iâm the only other Asian girl with one. â⦠Itâs an honor for me. Plus I was able to shoot for Playboy, which was always a goal of mine. The Playboy set is one of my favorite sets Iâve ever doneâHolly Randall shot that. ⦠So Iâm just checking off my bucket list for the industry.â Perhaps what makes Skyâs rapid rise even more impressive is the way she manages her earnings. For starters, she just bought her first house in L.A. âIt really does feel unreal,â Vina admits. âIâm always shooting consistently and saving my money. Iâm very much of a businesswoman at a very young age. âA lot of people that meet me are very shocked that Iâm this young and have my shit together. âHonestly, I love what I do and you have to treat it like a business if you want to do wellâI caught onto that really quick. Iâm very blessed. Iâm always very thankful for my opportunities.â *** Itâs safe to say Sky got the hang of things quick after beginning her career in July 2018 in Miami, where she made the rounds for a month-and-a-half before coming to L.A.âs Porn Valley. She was booked every day she wanted to be for months before Covid hit, leaving an impression on her colleagues everywhere she went. âAfter all my scenes the director would say, âYouâre amazingâ and all this stuff,â Vina says. âAnd I started realizing that this is coming really easy for me, Iâm getting a lot of work and Iâm saving all this money. Iâm young and Iâm good at what I do. âIâm so passionate about it. I really genuinely think I was given this opportunity for a reason. Itâs always going to be a big part of my life, whether itâs for the next 10 years or 15 years or a few more years.â When the pandemic took hold last year, Sky was grateful to be in a position to ease some of the burden it caused her family. âThere were some financial aspects that were hard for them and I had to step in,â says Sky, who was able to put her older sister through nursing school and help her parents. âThatâs one of the things I was able to do through this industry.â Indeed, Sky enjoys nothing more than âtaking care of businessâ on and off the set. âThatâs what I love doing,â she continues. âI thrive off the fact that I have this opportunity and I never want to fuck it up. I also want to prove people wrong. There is this mentality that young porn girls donât have their stuff together or are lost in the world or not businesslike. âI donât want that reputation. Iâm not saying you canât have fun, but you need to balance it.â *** An honor student in high school who excelled in AP college-level classes before graduation, Sky was âalmost like an overachiever.â âI was always pretty good in school,â Vina says. âMy whole life I thought I was going to be a doctor or lawyer.â She didnât play sports or do any extra-curricular activities outside of joining the âSideline Sweethearts Club,â where she baked cupcakes and cake pops for the football, basketball and baseball teams on game days. âThe guys loved it,â Vina recalls. âThatâs what got me into baking a lot.â Now when Vina isnât making content, she unwinds with baking, cooking, reading, working out and art directing her own sets at home. âI love being creative and building sets,â Sky says. âI have a pretty big houseâVinaâs Villaâso thatâs giving me a chance to be creative and decorate with certain backdrops.â Sky loves Italian food and has âa huge sweet tooth.â âWhen in doubt you can never go wrong with pasta,â Vina says with a laugh. âI would like to make my own red sauce one timeâthatâs a goal.â The distinctive tattoo on her left shoulder blade is a Japanese cherry blossom. âIâve been recognized in person for it and I think a lot of my fans know itâs my signature piece,â Vina reveals. âI always look over my left shoulder to open it up for the camera! âIt doesnât really have any special specific meaning aside from just loving flowers and Japanese art. I hope to go to Japan one day where I can actually see the Japanese cherry blossoms bloom once a year!â Photography by @evan.richardson.photography (photos 1-6 & cover) and @julesjordanx (7-10)
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