Iin January 2020, HBO’s hit series Happiness held an open casting call for a new trio of Season 2 characters. One of them was Ami, who was thus described: “Drug addict. Stripper. Hate her boyfriend. Talk nonsense. Can not read a room. Can make a bad situation worse”. Some people, including rapper Azealia Banks, submitted during the recorded auditions for this part. Little did they know that the show’s creator, Sam Levinson, had someone in mind.
Adult actress Chloe Cherry was returning home to Pennsylvania to visit her family when she received a surprise email asking her to audition. Happiness. She was confused, but curious. With no one around to help her read the faces, she FaceTim asked a friend in LA to help her with her tape. After two virtual attempts, Levinson asked her to fly to LA to try in person.
Cherry recalls: “He was so excited to be working with me and I was shocked. “The casting agency said, ‘The creator really wants to audition you.’ So I walked in and he said, ‘I think you’re really funny on Instagram and hope you’re good.’ I always thought I was funny but I didn’t know anyone was watching that level.” Cherry reads a scene about a prostitute dealing with her pimp.In preparation for the audition, she studied the talk of heroin users to exaggerate her speech. , but Levinson doesn’t want that friend will say it,” he urged. She heeded his advice and landed the coveted role – now named Faye.
As Faye, a plump-lips prostitute who isn’t roommates with Fezco (Angus Cloud) and Ashtray (Javon Walton), Cherry presents a gift of delivering hilarious one-stoppers. , separate. A recent episode saw her turn to Cal, the show’s resident serial rapistand mumbled, “Do you and your son like… fuck with people?”
The 24-year-old credits her comedic length in the hundreds of adult films she has starred in, many of which have a humorous twist.
“I always have a good time [in adult],” she said. “Many of my jobs are fun, and I have a lot of acting experience. You can imagine waking up in the morning, going to work and afterward What are your characters and lines? Or find out the day before? They’ll say, ‘This is your stepbrother and you’ve been mad at him forever. OK, action. ‘”
She stopped. “I also played a lot of different characters.”
One line Cherry is especially proud of occurs during the season premiere, when Faye and her boyfriend Custer (Tyler Chase) find themselves in a car on their way to a drug deal with Fezco, Ashtray , and Rue, played by Zendaya.
“Listen, I know what kind of person you are,” Faye, who was surprised to learn it was New Year’s Eve, told Rue. “You’re a damn bitch, and you’re probably fucking eating that ginger ass to make love to cows or whatever you’re into.” (Cherry improvised “maybe fuck that ginger ass to fuck the cows”.)
When filming on HappinessThe second season began in March 2020, Cherry underwent a test in the fire. The first scene they filmed was the scene in Episode 2, where, after apparently killing someone (pimp?), a bloody Faye is frantically stuffed into the air vent by Custer when the police arrive.
“We just met and said, ‘Hey, how are you?’ and then shot that scene,” Cherry recalled of her on-screen boyfriend. “Perhaps it would be more comfortable if we had a little more time to get to know each other. Sam wanted to do a full nudity with me and Tyler said, ‘That’s great number of, so they decided not to do so. But I was covered in fake blood and just felt so good on set. ”
Just when it seemed Cherry got her dream role, while filming Happiness has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Part of me was like, ‘I don’t even know if this is going to happen,'” she said. “I was ready to give my all and then get beaten up again. I also think that with the change of the political environment, they might change the scenario or something.”
With the pause in porn filming, Cherry — like many prostitutes —based on OnlyFans during the beginning of the pandemic.
“When the pandemic broke out and everything was over, I was glad I was a solid adult star,” she said. “I was able to have an instant platform on OnlyFans and not have to build it, so I was able to do that easily. I did Street more money on OnlyFans than I made in the porn industry. ”
And she’s confused why people are surprised that a porn star can get a role on a big show like Happiness.
“We’re in 2022 and after a pandemic, is that really what we’re going to put our energy into? This person is in porn so they can’t do this and that? ‘ she said. pornography. Porn is an art form in this world that everyone should respect.”
In 2015, 18-year-old Cherry decided to enter the adult industry. She moved from Pennsylvania to Miami because she noticed that popular “amateur” porn sites like Reality Kings and TeamSkeet were filming there and felt she would test the waters like an amateur in case she decided it’s not for me.
“I have always been comfortable in my sexuality, enjoy feeling my sexual power, and enjoy stimulating people. I am very comfortable in my body and proud of my body. I just know what the hell I am. And I love doing things that make people nervous.”
She explains: “I have always been comfortable in my sexuality, enjoy feeling my sexual power and love to excite people. “I am very comfortable in my body and proud of my body. I just know what the hell I am. And I love doing bad things that make people nervous.”
Cherry is finally represented by Riley Reynolds and his Model Hussie — recently the subject of a Netflix documentary Hot Girls Wanted. After a stint in Miami, she decided to move to LA to start filming larger productions but Reynolds, who history of alleged exploitation of amateur porn starstried to make things difficult for her.
“I kept asking him, ‘What do I owe you?’ ‘What do I owe you?’ and he won’t answer. And then he waited until I signed another agent in LA and said I owed him all this money,” she recalls. “What are you, a twelve year old child? It was Actually odd.”
Angus Cloud and Chloe Cherry in Happiness
HBO
Thankfully, the matter was resolved and Cherry quickly became an in-demand adult actress in Los Angeles with a dedicated 500K+ Instagram following—HappinessTheir Sam Levinson among them. And, after a year’s hiatus, filming on Happiness Season 2 continues with Cherry returning to the set as the inimitable Faye.
I was sitting across from Cherry at a popular coffee shop in West Hollywood. At the end of our interview, a pair of girls – less than 20 years old – interrupted our conversation to nervously ask her for a photo. They are huge Happiness fans, they said.
When she returned from the photo shoot, she beamed.
“That never happened!” she speaks. “It’s fun.”
As for whether she will continue to foray into the adult world and Hollywood, Cherry isn’t so sure. Her next step will be to find an acting agent and book more roles.
“I want to do any and all roles. It’s not an easy role, so I hope that whenever there’s a weird, blonde person, people will try to hire me,” she suggested. “Strange. Something has popped up in my life and now I’ll follow it anywhere. I will always love the adult industry, but it won’t be my focus for a while. My main focus is definitely acting.”
A few days after our interview, a “celebrity saw” of “Happiness star Chloe Cherry posed for a photo with a few fans” at the cafe found on Instagram Story of Deuxmoi.
