In brief: On Holly Randall Unfiltered (Sept. 20), Blake Blossom talked about growing up in a strict LDS community, telling her mom on a treadmill, picking her name, character acting, her point-and-click game and a comic on Kickstarter.
Contains adult themes: the embedded podcast video discusses adult-industry work.
Blake Blossom tells strangers she’s a magician. In a 70-minute sit-down she explained the real job, and why she plans her career like a campaign.
The performer was Holly Randall’s guest on “Blake Blossom on Her Mormon Upbringing, Her Award Winning Acting Skills, and Life Beyond the Camera” (Holly Randall Unfiltered, Sept. 20).
Shorts to the knees
She said she grew up in “a very strong LDS community.” There were no tank tops or bikinis, and shorts went “down to our knees” (17:15). “The big thing was abstinence. You know, you wait until you get married and but you need to go on your mission first.”
She started “the day after my 20th birthday,” she said, when a friend in LA told her to open an OnlyFans. Her first $1,000 created a logistics problem: getting it into her bank account meant telling her mom. She did it on the treadmills at the gym:
Okay, mommy, don’t be crazy. Uh yeah, if I uh like sold bikini pics online and made money, what do you think?
Trophies and alliteration
Friends told her about AVN and XBIZ, and her competitive streak kicked in: “What do you mean I can win awards? Well, I’m pretty competitive.” She went “immediately into like planning mode.” The surname came from Riverdale’s Cheryl Blossom. Blake was the first B name she found, and she liked Blake Lively and Gossip Girl. Her advice to newcomers: “you have to do the alliteration.”
On set she likes playing against type: “I like being crazy characters, psychotic, mentally disturbed.” A favorite role was an FBI agent for Digital Playground, which came with a 1965 Mustang “with no power of steering cuz I was like, why do people drive like this?” She also mentioned a Best Boy/Girl award she won with Jack Slayer for a Jules Jordan scene.
Games, comics, and a road trip from a horror movie
Her side projects are a point-and-click mystery game with an illustrator friend, where players solve “the legendary fall stones” across 10 levels. It is on Steam, with her voicing herself. There is also a comic on Kickstarter: “it’s going to be called Blake to the Future. Shout out Marty McFly.” Her pitch to other performers was to not let the job “ruin your dreams of having a pajama company, of having a soap company.”
She also told a scary story about running low on gas at night on the road to Vegas with “10 miles left in my tank,” strangers appearing out of the dark, and a kind police officer who brought her water. Her takeaway: “This is going in a movie.”
Wikipedia confirms she began in the adult industry in 2020 and has won multiple industry awards. The episode description, written by the show, matches her account of a strict Mormon community and the game and comic projects. Her family details and the roadside story are her own account. She also warned that “there are a lot of fake accounts out there” and asked fans to search “Blake Blossom official” before sending anyone money.
So: a magician by cover story, an FBI agent by trade, a video game protagonist and soon a time traveler. Her mom took the treadmill news better than most of us take a hill setting.