In 2009, a born-and-raised 24-year-old Angelena named Victoria was working at a branch of the Washington Mutual bank when a particularly chatty customer with industry ties suggested she should go into porn.
After some understandable trepidation, she told herself “Why not?” then shortened Victoria to Vicki and took the name of the bank as her surname.
“Fortunately Washington Mutual had just been acquired by Chase,” she tells XBIZ 14 years later, over delicious Texas-style tacos at a hip Highland Park joint. “Vicki Mutual would not have been a great porn name.”
Yes, over a decade later — she starts counting her time in porn officially from 2010, when she signed with an agency and started performing regularly — Vicki Chase is still here, still strong and promoting a brand new high-profile showcase: “Vicki Chase Ninfómana,” released by Evil Angel this week and directed by her longtime friend and associate Jonni Darkko.
“Ninfómana” is the second Darkko-helmed showcase for Chase, re-upping her relevance almost a decade after 2014’s career-defining “V for Vicki.”
“Jonni and I had a good relationship long before I chose him for ‘V of Vicki,’” Chase explains. “I did quite a bit of work for him from 2011 to 2014, so many POV, BJs, so many multiples… he really knows how to like bring out the sexual deviant out of me!”
At this point, Chase has literally done it all, as the almost 700 titles on her IAFD page attest, and with/for everyone. But Darkko’s signature gonzo style still has a special place in her heart.
“I just love Jonni’s style,” she confides. “He’s like, ‘Let’s start you out glamorous, beautiful. I love his style of shooting, where it’s like a photo shoot and I get to feel like glamorous supermodel — and then, before you know, you go totally crazy, you become a sexual beast. You’re there to. Do. It.”
Darkko, Chase adds, “is like the cheerleader. He tells you, ‘Nasty! The nastier the better! You’re like really nasty! Aaaghhhhh!” Right? I love it. Him and I have always had a really really good relationship as far as like creating some pretty epic stuff. I work well for him, he works well for me.”
Back in 2014, coming off a difficult year where she got divorced and left her agency — she has thrived a free agent since — Chase had very clear ideas of what she wanted for “V for Vicki.”
“I wanted a blowbang, but I wanted it to be a fantasy, where I am in a room full of firemen,” she reminisces, laughing. “Basically, I’m on fire and they gotta put me out! So I made sure that all the guys looked like firemen, you know — I got Ramon Nomar, Evan Stone, Alex Jones… I also wanted the biggest dicks — the biggest meat! That’s exactly what I said to Jonni.”
That showcase featured that epic fireman blowbang, a girl/girl/girl/girl scene with Skin Diamond, Dani Daniels and Ash Hollywood, a POV anal with Darkko, and a DP with Chris Strokes and Mick Blue.
“I did everything then to push the limits,” Chase says of the career landmark showcase. “I was pleased that everything worked out. It was it was an amazing piece of porn.”
This time around, for “Ninfómana,” Chase says she wanted to do “elevated versions” of each scene from her preceding showcase, except for the all-girl foursome.
“We didn’t do a girl/girl on this one. Jonni told me, ‘Let’s just focus on you. This should just be about you. What do you think?’ And I was like, ‘Okay, I can handle that,’” she laughs. “I just want all the guys that I want.”
Instead of the DP, “Ninfómana” features an airtight with Jax Slayher, Rob Piper and Richard Mann. The original’s POV was “elevated” by the inclusion of the legendary Brickzilla, whom she calls “one of the biggest guys in the business.”
For the souped-up deep throat — “I’m known for my oral skills,” Chase deadpans without conceit — Donny Sins, Hollywood Cash and Darkko lent their appendages. The anal scene features Damion Dayski, the in-demand “It Boy” Chase specifically wanted to work with. “We could only have him this day,” she says, “So we said, ‘Fuck it — it’s gonna be an anal scene. It’s gonna be hard.”
And then there was the gangbang. “It was a blowbang-turned-gangbang with all the fellas,” Chase boasts. “Seven guys!”
Comparing “V for Vicki” and “Ninfómana,” Chase notes that the 2023 showcase is more focused on showing off Darkko’s mastery of his chosen genre.
“Long-time fans will notice shot after shot of those things that Jonni knows how to get brilliantly, like in-your-face hardcore sex,” she enthuses. “Like, none of this frilly stuff. Sure, there’s him putting me in beautiful lingerie and makeup and doing little teases before the sex and a full glamour shoot. Jonni’s very happy now with his lighting and this new camera that he’s got. He just knows what he’s doing. So I’m like, ‘I’ll let you do your magic. I’m gonna do mine. And we’re just gonna — we’re just gonna have fun, you know?’
Under the Watchful Eyes of Frida and Selena
Growing up in a very traditional Mexican-American family and spending her youth between East Los Angeles and DTLA, Chase knew she wanted to be a star.
“I’ve always wanted to be a star,” she says, sitting now at an overpriced hipster tacos place in a gentrified stretch of Highland Park that she has known many incarnations before. “So I became a star.”
Among a family that kept all the Mexican traditions alive, young Victoria was mesmerized by Hollywood biopics of badass Latinas who conquered the art and entertainment worlds entirely in their own terms. Other hot girls may have their Marilyns and Bettie Pages, Chase’s guardian angels and muses are Frida Kahlo and Selena.
When Chase joined the porn circus, she discovered new muses and role models. “I remember Kistina Rose being at the top. And Ann Marie Rios. I read the Tera Patrick book and before that Jenna Jameson’s, which was the first time I ever picked up a book that was written by a porn star. And I was like, ‘Wow, this is amazing.’”
Afer reading Patrick’s 2009 memoir, “Sinner Takes All,” Chase thought she was “so cool and amazing that I even had a wet dream about it!”
Thinking back to those final days of the DVD box cover era, Chase pictures herself as “very much a new bird still coming in, kind of finding my ropes, seeing where I fit in. Like, what am I doing in this industry?”
Still, after jumping in, Chase found herself enjoying it. “It was the best job I ever had — ‘I can’t believe I’m getting paid for doing this!’-kind-of-great. It definitely beat being a bank teller or working at Victoria’s Secret or Levi’s outlets. I had a agent for four years, but after a while I felt that I knew the ropes and had done so much, made a name for myself. I knew who was who in the business, and I was known as a professional. So I never found another agent. LA Direct was my one and only agency that I worked with.”
In the 2010s, Chase elevated her career and brand by developing a network of directors and performers who sought her again and again. “I got to act with Ann Marie Rios, Kayden Kross, Jesse Jane, Riley Steele. I worked a lot with Digital Playground at the time. I really enjoyed working with Nacho Vidal, one of my favorites ever. Nacho is a real one. Robby D. — rest in peace — was very much a director that gave me my first solid chance at showcasing my acting, being able to carry a boy/girl scene by myself and giving me a shot. I wasn’t even a contract girl, but he definitely showed me a lot of respect and love by having me whenever he could.”
In early 2014, Chase hit a personal low point following a complicated divorce. She used the opportunity to refocus herself and her career. “I got out of that trauma and then I started coming into my own. I told myself, “Okay, 2014 — this is your year. I just felt like I had something to prove. A year later, following “V for Vicki,” she says, she started getting accolades and more and more recognition. “I had the fans really enjoying my performances, I was getting cast in big projects. I felt, I’m not gonna say ‘I made it,’ but I definitely am established as a known entertainer in this business, a known performer, someone known for hardcore scenes, professional, liked.”
‘I’m an Explorer’
About those “hardcore scenes”: Chase’s almost decade-and-a-half in porn has also been a journey of sexual exploration for herself, testing her own boundaries, and finding her own pleasure points.
“I was always curious about sex,” she says. “I remember wanting to know more and more. But of course, being Latina and Catholic, it’s like, ‘No, you gotta save yourself or your husband, and you’re supposed to get married, and you’re supposed to be like this and that.’ I never really subscribed to that. I was more like, ‘I don’t know if that’s for me.’ I’m not gonna say I wouldn’t like it, because I’m raised to believe that that’s what you should want, but I always questioned it.”
Because Chase, she wants to be crystal clear, loves sex. “And not just with one person,” she explains. “With porn, I was educating myself in sex. And that cannot happen with just one person — well, that’s not how I’m learning anyway. I was very much into exploring my sexuality with different partners. I didn’t see it as a bad thing, even though before I was under the impression that it’s a very shameful bad thing.”
Her traditional Mexican-American family still loomed large as the stereotypical voices in Chase’s head. “‘Oh, my God,’ I told myself. This is crazy. My parents are gonna kill me.’ And I was an adult already! I mean, sure, they don’t love it for me.”
For sure, her bilingual home — mom grew up in Los Angeles and speaks English, dad Spanish — had questions, like Are you okay? Are you on drugs? And, what the fuck is wrong with you?”
“And I was like, ‘I’m not on drugs. I’m healthy, happy, I’m making a very good living. I don’t ask you guys for anything, I’m able to sustain myself. And don’t worry, I’m happy,’” she replied. “And they were like, ‘Okay, if that’s the case, then we’ll leave it at that.’”
And so Chase started exploring. “I certainly had my muses coming in, like, oh my god, Kristina Rose, for example,” she says. “I was seeing her at the top of her game when I was coming in and wondering ‘What is she like? How are her performances like that?’ I studied people that I like, Ann Marie Rios, Tera Patrick, just take little things from them and make it my own, you know.
Chase says she figured out very quickly that “hardcore performances make a bigger splash, and if you can handle them, then more power to you. That’s how I did it, I just jumped in and was doing scenes for all the companies, not shying away from pushing my limits.”
“I’m an explorer,” she smiles. “I’m the Explorer, trying to figure out what I like, what I don’t like. I think it’s just because I’m just an open person. I’m an optimist, a lover. I love pleasing.”
It helps that she is very much in the moment while preforming. “I only watch the trailers after my scenes come out, and if I really like what I see, and who is in it, and who directed it and all that, then I’ll watch the whole thing — but most of the time I don’t. It’s a performance — I just leave it on the floor and move on.”
An Advocate for Women’s Sexuality
Chase is very much still active in the industry. Besides “Ninfómana,” she has an upcoming two-part scene for Deeper’s Kayden Kross that stretched her acting muscles.
“It’s me as a crazy loony,” she says. “It was a take on Harley Quinn. I did a blowbang there and then a second part where I did an airtight. I’ve been rolling with these really big elaborate scenes, and I look at them and think, ‘Oh my god, I’ve come a long way, because back when I first came in, like I saw Kristina Rose, Alexis Texas, Tori Black, all these great performers, and now I’m in that level now. It’s kind of like, holy shit. I’m like the senior about to graduate and go off to college.”
“College” in her case would be transitioning more into mainstream acting, or adult directing, or even as an inspirational figure.
Chase recently played the main character in the indie film “Everything in Its Right Place,” currently seeking distribution. “It was about a girl who was an adult actress, but it wasn’t about me being in porn,” she explains. “It was about me phasing out of porn and dealing with a family matter — my dad was an alcoholic, my mom was kind of like a punching bag, and she dies and I realize I have a stepsister from my dad, but I have a hateful relationship with him because of what he did to my mom.”
Although the story is not based on her specific life experiences, Chase felt she could relate to the material. “It’s a story that the director made up on his own, and I just fit the bill. I thought I could do it because I kind of am this person. Even the name, ‘Everything in Its Right Place,’ was eerily fitting.”
As for wanting to be an advocate, Chase is thinking about helping spread a message of positivity about “women being sexual, in any way, shape, or form, I want Latin women — any women, really — to be able to come to me, and be comfortable in their sexuality and not ashamed.”
Back in 2010, Chase made the professional decision to keep the Victoria, but replace her Spanish surname with the name of a bank. She wanted to “not box myself in, and just be one thing. I wanted to say that it shouldn’t matter what ethnicity am. I wanted to do as much work as I could and not be limited to just being Latin.”
Now, Chase is also becoming more vocal about her cultural identification as Latina, particular while trying to advocate sexual acceptance.
“I feel like there’s this double standard, like, ‘Oh, Latin men get to do everything. And sexual women are being considered the worst and are frowned upon. I dealt a lot with that. But I had to find my own way to overcome that. I’ve come to a place where I can tell myself and others, ‘You’re fucking great, you’re not lacking anything. There’s nothing wrong with you because you like to fuck for a living, or be a porn star.”
Asked what kind of porn she would like to make if given the chance to direct, she says she would want to direct something “where it’s very much a woman’s fantasy. We’re just along for the ride, and what we see is from the point of view of woman empowerment.
“I just would like the girl to be the hero, the badass,” she concludes. “Something I can relate to.”
