So Ladies, are you ready to enjoy a funny, sexy romantic comedy that makes some powerful statements about women in the workplace and the search for true love; and depending on which version you watch, you get to see really attractive people having hot, explicit sex all over the place? (Always a bonus, right?) Well shoot your shot!
The Feminist Sexpert thoroughly enjoyed her recent viewing of Shoot Your Shot; Team Skeet’s hot romance story brought to the screen by a talented, beautiful cast and crew; some of whom I just got to interview, and one of which just happens to be one of my biggest porn hunk crushes. (I know, right? High five, Ladies!)
Shoot Your Shot is the story of Nicky and Penelope (played by Nicky Rebel and Penelope Kay), a pair of attractive young professionals ‘shooting their shot’ at finding both a fulfilling love life and productive careers. As they navigate their way through a complicated singles scenes and even more complex workplace dynamics, they keep working their way to each other.
Shoot Your Shot is available in Safe for Work and Not Safe for Work versions; but of course, seeing that I’m an adult industry writer, porn is always ‘safe for work’. Go me! But in all versions of this particular film, ‘freeuse’ activity, in which people engage in impulsive but always consensual relations, anywhere and at anytime they please, is prevalent and presented throughout. Freeuse is difficult to describe, but, well, just picture walking into an office and seeing a bunch of inordinately hot people (also including Charley Hart, Willow Ryder, Alexander Vega and James Drake) having sex and doughnuts simultaneously. And really, what’s better than sex and doughnuts? And at the same time? The Feminist Sexpert likes this Freeuse business. 
The awesome heroine at the center of Shoot Your Shot is Penelope Kay, who balances gorgeous looks and an adorable baby doll voice with a strength and intellect that well befits her character.
“I loved being able to play a strong female character in a real feature film like Shoot Your Shot,” she said. “I got tears in my eyes that I would be playing a leading lady in a feature.”
Penelope enjoyed played a wide range of emotions for her role. In one scene, she rejects the advances of and tells off a sexist, egotistical co-worker (played to devilish perfection by Peter Green); the Feminist Sexpert is currently rehearsing the withering looks she gives him in the mirror, in the instance that I need them for future job situations. In the next she attends a party in hopes of seeing Nicky, only to see him exit a bedroom in the company of not one, not two, but three girls. Major ouch! I got teary eyed watching this scene, as I saw the raw emotion play out on Penelope’s face.
“It was such a powerful scene,” she said.
Penelope surprised me when she told me that she had no formal acting training, though she does have a penchant for photography and performing.
“I love my job, making movies and being adored by fans” she surmised. “I’ve always been a sexual person, and I love setting my own schedule.”
Penelope looks forward to participating in more productions like Shoot Your Shot, in which she was able to play a realistic woman.
“My character talks and acts like a real woman would,” she said. “Not a man’s fantasy of how she should.”
Aside from making more movies like this one, Penelope hopes also to be a voice for both female and male performers in the quest for equality and respect.
“I’ll never act in a production that I can’t support and get behind, and I’ll stand up for men and women in need of advocacy. That’s what true feminism is,” she said.
Nicky Rebel, the leading man of Shoot Your Shot, knows a little something about advocacy. Known as a premiere advocate for talent rights and safety, he is the co-owner of Aglaea Group; renowned for producing artistic, responsibly created content that’s also very hawt.
“The best I can do as an advocate is to maintain a set that is safe, happy and healthy for everyone,” he said. “I have to be the change.”
Rebel also distinguishes himself as a leading man, bringing his gorgeous looks, smooth speaking voice and considerable talent to his role as Nicky, a salesman and aspiring author.
“Any guy can relate to this role,” he said. “The guy just trying to get his dream girl, and fulfill his career dreams.”
Nicky says he actually prefers shooting adult projects that appeal to women and couples.
“It’s sexier, there’s more romance, the pacing is slower,” he said. “It’s hotter.”
Acting in a feature, says Nicky, presents a dual challenge in that one faces the pressure of delivering a good acting performance, along with performing sexually.
“It’s the constant balance of work mode and play mode,” he said.
Yet when working with the team at Shoot Your Shot, says Nicky, the challenge was most enjoyable.
“We all got along,” he said. “It’s such a fun time. And I loved having a female director, to see the story through her eyes and a female sensibility. We need more good porn for women, not just male fantasy fulfillment all the time.”
Finding his origins as a fitness model after a substantial weight loss, Nicky continues to accept a variety of modelling assignments, from mainstream to fetish, and to act in a myriad of adult productions, including additional Free Use movies for Team Skeet, a fetish he finds very hot. And this handsome, well-spoken thinking woman’s sex symbol has some advice for us ladies.
“Don’t ever let anyone tell you how to feel about your sexuality and what turns you on,” he said. “Shoot your shot and fly that freak flag high.”
Vincent Verga (EXCECUTIVE PRODUCER and Scriptwriter & Head of Content for TeamSkeet and MYLF) expresses pride and gratitude when told that Shoot Your Shot is an empowering, woman-friendly production.
“That’s exactly what I was aiming for,” he affirms. “There aren’t enough women’s movies in porn. And with a female director, Vicki Vortex, we achieved that goal.”
Verga credits his performers with each bringing something special to their role.
“Penelope gave it her all, Nicky was amazing, Charley Hart, who plays the office boss, was awesome. Each performer got a chance to shine.”
Verga feels that the female porn viewer can relate to Shoot Your Shot on a number of levels.
“Females can relate to Penelope speaking out and doing what she wants, and to the free use fantasy, safe, consensual sex wherever and whenever they want it.”
Yeppers. The Feminist Sexpert relates to both.
As Verga was raised around women, he finds it easier to write women’s roles. And he has a special message for female viewers of Shoot Your Shot.
“Let’s make the change, to make better porn for women and have a better view of women’s sexuality,” she said. “Let’s do this! Let’s Shoot the Shot!
The Feminist Sexpert gives Shoot Your Shot her highest rating, the coveted Squeal of Approval! Check it out here.
