follows 20-year-old Bella Cherry, an inexperienced but determined aspiring porn actor, who has traveled all the way from small-town Sweden to try her luck at making it big in Hollywood. Theis expectedly graphic, marking Bella’s ascent through a number of different porn shoots. One of the earliest finds the film in its sweetest spot , tracking Bella as she films an erotically empowering woman-directed BDSM scene with an attentive partner who continuously responds to her needs.
Despite having no prior interest in acting , Kappel was drawn to the project as both an opportunity to do something outside of her comfort zone and as a way to provide “sexual education” to people whose own might be inadequate. “In Sweden, which is a very progressive country, we have sexual education, but it’s very thin. So for a lot of young people, their sexual education is porn. But when people consume porn, they tend to replicate those images, and I think that’s harmful,” she explains.
“To me, what was important wasn’t only to understand how the industry works, because Bella doesn’t really know how the industry works,” Kappel continues, detailing how she attended porn industry events and parties, in character as Bella Cherry, to help prepare for the role. “I just wanted to get in the right headspace and have a genuine understanding and appreciation of the people in the industry because I wanted to portray Bella as authentically as I could.