‘Teenage Cocktail’ Stars Talk About the Mundane Voyeurism of Webcam Modeling (Video)

SXSW 2016: In an interview with TheWrap’s Matt Donnelly, director John Carchietta and stars Nichole Bloom and Fabianne Therese reveal why some teen girls see webcams as a way to make a quick chunk of change

John Carchietta’s provocative thriller “Teenage Cocktail” starts out simple enough: Annie (Nichole Bloom), an unassuming 17-year-old girl, is struggling to fit in at a new high school. Suddenly, she becomes smitten with a beautiful dancer named Jules (Fabianne Therese), who takes Annie on her first walk on the wild side.

Then Carchietta takes the film into lurid territory when Jules reveals that she is a webcam model and asks Annie to go on camera with her so they can get enough money to run off to New York together. Annie bites the forbidden fruit, leading her into an encounter with a dangerous deviant.

During a talk with TheWrap’s Matt Donnelly at SXSW, Carchietta, Therese and Bloom said that after looking at webcam sites themselves, they aren’t surprised that girls like Annie and Jules would get drawn to such a world with such risks.

“You cruise around and there are girls flipping through magazines fully clothed,” said Carchietta. “People are just throwing money left and right and they’re just hanging out.”

“It’s totally plausible for a girl in high school to be like, ‘This is easy money!’” added Bloom.

Check out the rest of their interview with TheWrap above.

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