There is no doubt, the major requirement of a girl to enter the industry is natural
BEAUTY. Because she doesn't actually need anything more to expose in order to get money for (she can become a webcam girl, a magazine girl or simply a stripper). And Lana Rhoades was blessed. She had plenty of it. Lana established her "image", after her second appearance in FTV and objectively she was one of the most charismatic models I have seen the last years in general showbiz, not only in adult industry. She was an EXTREMELY beautiful girl, with big hypnotizing light blue eyes, I dunno and I don't care if her lips were real or not but at that time they fit perfectly with the form of her face, large all natural perfectly shaped tits, tight buttocks, well-built amps, soft flawless ink free skin, sleek legs, delicate fingers, delicious pussy, long silky straight hair. Even that heart shaped tattoo on her right buttock added an artistic finishing touch, like a trade mark.
As far as competition is concerned this was her main comparative ADVANTAGE. Because it is possible for her to adopt another starlet elements of performance but it's utterly impossible for another girl to replicate her distinctive beauty. Even attempting to do so, could be proved catastrophic, especially by surgery. So, the first thing you expect from a girl that pretty to do in showbiz, is to accept her appearance and PRESERVE it. Easy? Nope. Because Lana had introduced
ABSOLUTE PERFECTION and every slightest change in her outlook it could be quite notable by the public. So she had to work every day to keep her flawless image intact and be very cautious with changes.
And thankfully Lana didn't lack working spirit, will or aesthetics. Meaning she seemed to understand what fits her and what makes her beautiful. She didn't just follow the trend because someone else did it. Apart from that, she knew how to stand and pose in front of the lens and how to expose her sensuality. Although she was still a teen, she could get easily transformed into a fiery femme fatale, a "Pretty Woman" or a fashion guru working for an ..evil boss "Who Wore Prada". But Lana was not just beautiful, she was also
CLASSY. She didn't look snob or superficial. On the contrary, she looked simple and reserved. Yet, her moves were gentle, her manners polite, her outfit elegant, her voice soft. There was some air in her appearance which very few starlets exhale in that age and defined the visual perspective through which many viewers and directors saw her.
If natural beauty is the key for a starlet to open the door of adult entertainment,
SENSUALITY is the element that defines in many ways her career. As far as adult models, I could better describe it as the ART of locking the spectator's attention and make him
FANTASIZE about her. The art of convincing him that what she is feeling is genuine and wonderful. It is what makes you think "I need a woman like her" and what inspires you to seek your own personal Lana. This is what distinguishes the real talent from the rest. Is not her anal skills or how "dirty" or extreme she can be. (In fact, extremity can mislead and isolate a girl from her real sexual identity). Yet, it takes many years of practice for an actress to develop and improve her sensuality and in my opinion in order to claim yourself an adult actress got to have it inside you, got to love what you do and therefore got to do things which draw pleasure from.
It was quite obvious from her early photoshoots that Lana had it. She was flirting with the camera and with any viewer who lied behind. Usually a girl with her age and experience in the biz stands passive and just accepts what her partner is doing. But Lana didn't act like that. She tried to communicate with her partner in many ways, participating actively in the sexual game. She was giving control but she was also taking it back, making the mating more interesting and stepping away from this monotonous submissive procedure that most starlets seemed to adopt. She wanted to please her partner and encouraged him/her to please her in turn, responding expressively to his/her treatments. She wasn't always successful trying to bring chemistry (was not always her blame) but she had the seeds, the proper
MENTALITY to do it. So it was just a matter of time to raise the possibilities and reach perfection.
And the more I read about her the more I realized that Lana was definitely
NOT the type of the girl who would bring down her natural defenses so effortlessly or accept everything for a certain price. Mind that before she joined porn she had slept with only one person. She abstained from addictive substances and she lived a healthy vegetarian life. She was a bright student and a cheerleader. She grew up in a farm by a religious mother who transmitted her principles and morality. She was a humanitarian, she loved animals and she wouldn't hesitate to publicly protest against cruelty. She mentioned many times in her interviews that her dream was to meet a decent person, create a family and live a normal quiet life.
Despite the fact that certain forces in the adult industry, using every mean you can think of, intentionally or unintentionally, directly or indirectly were pushing every girl towards
SLUTIFICATION, Lana seemed to withhold and
RESIST. She wouldn't give her holes so easily, at least not without setting her own terms. In fact, there was an old radio podcast to prove that. She, Stella Cox and their common at that time agent visited a radio studio. The presenter, an acclaimed "Analist" said something like "Do you want me to fuck your ass?" and Lana gave an immediate, witty and disarming response. "Do you want me to fuck yours?" I dunno if she would ever become the spirit of the party (she claimed that she was introvert and conservative) but I strongly believe that she is a girl that you would definitely like to take her out and introduce her to everyone you know, even to your... parents.