Maitland Ward on Bursting the Barrier Between Porn and Hollywood
Back in 2019, before a deadly global pandemic upended our way of life, I had the pleasure of profiling Maitland Ward. The former Boy Meets World actress had just become the hottest new face in porn—at the age of 42, no less—having been named the face of Deeper, a high-end XXX brand, and earning a pair of AVN nominations for her turn in the three-hour-long erotic epic Drive. And she’d only been at it for a handful of months.
“I found out that I love sexual performance,” Ward tells me. “It’s like being in a dance, or an ice-skating pair. You’re doing this great artistic piece, and I just love it.”
Ward is now one of the biggest stars in the adult industry, winning five AVN awards (the Oscars of porn) along with six XBIZ Awards (the Golden Globes of porn), toplining high-budget adult features, and pulling in six figures a month via OnlyFans. If all that weren’t enough, she’s about to make history by crossing back into mainstream Hollywood, starring and co-producing The Big Time, a television sitcom centered on Ward’s adult film star and a geeky comic book writer teaming up on a porn superhero blockbuster.
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