Bella Thorne Is a Director Now, If Porn Counts as Directing

Usually when actors want to move into directing, they’ll do it by directing an episode of the show they’re on. It makes sense because they know they cast and crew and feel comfortable on the set.

Bella Thorne decided to go another way with it, making her directorial debut on Pornhub with the pornographic film Her & Him.

I’m more of a fan of porn movies with titles of the More Dirty Asian Debutantes or Lesbian Nymphomaniac Sorority Sleepover variety. I feel like making artsy porno movies with intricate plots just gets in the way of the reason people are watching. It feels pretty retro, like 70s porno except with no pubic hair or weird-shaped boobs.

EW reported that’s part of a new initiative for the site.

The film, titled Her & Him, is part of Pornhub’s Visionaries Director’s Series, which features debut films by unexpected directors in order to diversify porn production. Previous entries in the series were directed by rapper Young M.A. and singer-rapper Brooke Candy.

I mean, it is in line with her whole thing. Hey, I need to tell William we’ve found something Bella will probably succeed at.

“What inspired me to do this movie was thinking about this relationship between a male and a female and this fight over dominance and how much that relates to us in our general world, besides just a sexual scenario,” Thorne said in a behind-the-scenes video. “My vision behind the story was basically creating these two dynamic characters that could switch off between dominant and submissive.”

I think people just want to see them f**k, Bella. Don’t turn something beautiful like pornography into something cheap and tawdry like a Hollywood film.