Veteran adult film star Cherie DeVille has a confession to make: she’d never seen Boogie Nights, the jaw-dropping opus from Paul Thomas Anderson about the ’70s-era porn industry, and is enjoying the experience for the first time with CineBinge React hosts George He and Simon Swan on YouTube.

The trio screens scenes from the Mark Wahlberg film together and comments on the shocking contrast between the early days of the business and how the movers, shakers, and players offer a different experience for performers in 2023.

“It was very well done but not representative of the current industry in any way! Thank God!” DeVille laughs in response to the industry’s evolution over the past 50 years, though one particular practice still rings true in the Current Age vs. the Golden Age of adult filmmaking: “Banking discrimination is still a major problem for us… people don’t give us loans, a lot of pay for cash, even if we have the money, the credit score and all of that.”

Beyond that, DeVille explains that it’s a whole new world: “Testing went from 30 days to 14 days… now everyone does in-depth consent checklists, there’s talent liaisons on set… if someone looks strung out on drugs, on alcohol, you absolutely can’t film with them because there’s no way to consent… a lot of cultural changes and business changes as well.

“The only people who were really focused on the legalities were the companies because they were the ones that handled, held, and distributed the paperwork and dealt with all of that, but now most of the top performers are our own productions companies, so things are always evolving, always changing… even in my 12 years, my job has changed significantly from Year 1 to Year 12.”

Watch Boogie Nights with Cherie DeVille on the CineBinge React Podcast at YouTube.com/@CineBingeReact.

Cherie DeVille is one of the most accomplished and respected models, film stars and content creators in the adult film business, with more than 12 years and 1500+ sizzling onscreen credits for top studios such as Evil Angel, Girlfriends Films, Penthouse, Jules Jordan Video, MissaX, Mile High and Brazzers, where she is currently an exclusive contract star – to her name.

You can follow Cherie DeVille on Twitter (X) @cheriedeville.