Maitland Ward Speaks to Daily Beast About Adult, Mainstream Careers

Maitland Ward Speaks to Daily Beast About Adult, Mainstream Careers

LOS ANGELES — The Daily Beast published today an interview with multi XBIZ Award-winning performer Maitland Ward where she expounds on her plans to simultaneously perform in adult and mainstream.

The Deeper contract performer spoke with Daily Beast’s Senior Entertainment Editor Marlow Stern, who wrote about Ward’s accomplishments, including “six XBIZ Awards, toplining high-budget adult features and pulling in six figures a month via OnlyFans.”

“If all that weren’t enough,” Stern added, “she’s about to make history by crossing back into mainstream Hollywood, starring in 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.”

A Comedy Like 'GLOW'

“It’s unfortunate that there have been all these barriers over the years,” Ward explained about the difficulty of performers landing non-adult roles. “What I thought was really cool about doing this pilot is when the writers came to me with this idea — a show about the porn industry in a sitcom form — I thought, ‘Oh god, will this be really disparaging to porn?’ But when I read it, I was so blown away how it has such a fun, sex-positive vibe to it. It shows porn in a more fun light where we’re like this family—  kind of like ‘GLOW’ in a way.”

“I always say, ‘I’m an actress in both — in mainstream and in porn, and I’m not separating things’,” Ward added. “When I talk to people in the mainstream, I feel like the taboos are starting to shift, and I feel like I can cross back and forth, and people won’t just pigeonhole me as one or the other.”

To read “Maitland Ward: Making History Straddling Porn and Hollywood,” visit TheDailyBeast.com.

For more from Maitland Ward, follow her on Twitter.

Main Image: Maitland Ward (Photo: Gustavo Turner)



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