from www.avn.com – In response to a request from AVN, Anabolic Video owner Christopher Alexander issued the following statement via email:
Anabolic Video Productions has always set the standard when it comes to doing big shoots in a big way!
On Friday evening, September 28, 2001—the night before USC lost to Stanford 21-16 in front of an audience of over 50,000 spectators, and two weeks after 9-11-2001, Anabolic shot adult actress Kimberly Franklin dressed as an Anabolic cheerleader (with 12 “football players” as her co-stars).
Suffice it to say that Kimberley does EVERYTHING that she can to get her team “up for the big game,” so she does an incendiary (or disgusting, depending on your point of view) scene on the 30-yard line of the LA Coliseum football field! It was an incredible scene, with incredible talent, in an incredible location!
We almost canceled the scene because of 9-11, out of respect for those who had lost their lives in the Twin Towers. However, after learning from the location manager that since he’d already paid for and booked that date, we had a choice of “use it or lose it,” we went forward with the production. The scene can be viewed at www.anabolic.com.
Like any shoot, there are always obstacles to overcome. I remember arriving at the location late in the afternoon only to find that the field had not yet been chalked as we had been told that it would be. So we started capturing some shots that we might use while a couple of Production Assistants ran off in search of chalk for us to mark off at least part of the field with.
As the night wore on, we noticed a couple of LAPD helicopters observing from above. We figured that with the heightened security at that time, they were probably wondering why the Coliseum lights were on well into the night until they saw that it was obviously a movie production with a huge jib and a pretty good-sized cast and crew. Of course, if they saw Kimberley in action, I’m sure that they were happy to be the guys with the birds-eye view that night.
In the 10+ years since that production, I still have some of the guys from that production come up to me and say, “Wow, I still can’t believe that we shot in the Coliseum.”
As far as I knew at the time, everything was 100% completely legit. Apparently, now it seems that the talent aren’t the only ones amazed that we shot at the Coliseum.