Maitland has been in the industry for almost a year now and she has taken the industry by storm! She is a gorgeous redhead with a great body. One of the highlights for me at the most recent AVN was meeting Maitland in the flesh! Coming from the mainstream world, one would expect a standoffish person but Maitland is so sweet and a down-to-earth person. I first talked to Maitland last year and we got caught up during the quarantine!
Captain Jack: When I first talked to you, you had just started your porn career. It must have been nerve wracking at first. Are you more comfortable having sex on-camera now?
Maitland Ward: You know what’s funny is that I was never super nervous to do it on camera, which is kind of surprising. I had done my own content for about 18 months prior to that. So I had been doing it on-camera for the public so it wasn’t like I was just out-of -the-gates doing it on-camera; it was just in a professional setting. Definitely, I’m much more comfortable on the sets and with all the material and everything. It’s going to be coming up on a year, the first anniversary of when my first Blacked scene came out. It’s been a real whirlwind of a year! And I had a great time! It’s funny, I was actually thinking about that. People asked me if I was nervous just starting out and it wasn’t even the first time I had sex on film. It’s like I get into this zone and it takes me over and I didn’t expect that. I expected myself to be more nervous than I actually was when I experienced it.
CJ: One of the things I love about it is you started in mainstream and moved into adult and now the adult world is becoming more mainstream.
Maitland: That’s what I love. And if I have any part of making it more acceptable to mainstream, I will have done more than my job. That means so much to me and something that I’m passionate about. I do think that porn is going to merge with mainstream and there will be crossovers in the future. I think the younger people have grown up with porn on the internet so it’s not such a taboo thing as opposed to someone in their 50s who are more likely to be more judgmental, especially women. But these 20-year old girls say, ‘Wow, that’s so cool!’ and are much more receptive to it and I think that’s where the world is going. And I’m very excited about that.
