Bella Thorne: Former Disney star wins Pornhub award for adult film Her and Him
Her porn movie's been described as a modernistic, sexually explicit Romeo and Juliet
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Your support makes all the difference.Former Disney star Bella Thorne has won a prestigious porn award for directing her first adult movie.
Thorne, 22, took home the Pornhub Vision Award at the website's second annual awards ceremony for Her & Him, which follows a couple's "out-of-control sexually charged encounter".
Pornhub vice president Corey Price described the film as a “modernistic, sexually explicit” Romeo and Juliet-inspired story of two lovers. It was commissioned as part of its Visionaries Director’s Series.
In a promotional behind-the-scenes video of the filmmaking process, Thorne said she originally wanted "to make a Christmas horror movie” but she instead made a “very beautiful, ethereal neon type of vision”.
She called the process an “interesting” experience, adding it was “quite a fun environment”.
Thorne previously revealed she shopped the film idea around a long time ago when things were “very different and people were kind of scared to make a movie like this one when it comes to dominance and submissive[ness] between a male and female and how this relationship can turn quite sour”.
She added: “I was just really lucky that Pornhub believed in my vision and was not scared to jump in it with me."
Pornhub's previous guest directors include rappers Brooke Candy and Young MA.
Speaking about the collaboration with Thorne, Price said: “Bella’s creativity and imagination [are] personified through the course of the film, as she takes viewers on a journey of passion and desire.”
The film stars adult entertainment actors Abella Danger and Small Hands. Her and Him is available to subscribers of Pornhub Premium.
Earlier this year, Thorne revealed in an interview with Good Morning America that she identifies as pansexual, after previously considering herself bisexual.
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