"You can't fake a 113-degree day," Harden notes. "You can rent a heater, but you can't rent the desperation. That was real desperation. Summer was dehydrated. I had a headache. But we were in it together. That’s the chemistry." Since the "Sweltering Summer" phenomenon, Summer Jones has become a sought-after name for "method acting" in adult cinema. She has since shot a scene in a walk-in freezer (-BlackedRaw- Winter Break , currently in post-production) and a rain-soaked feature in Seattle.
"I remember reading the call sheet and seeing 'Location: Desert, no AC, real time,'" Summer Jones recalls, laughing. "I thought it was a prank. Then Gage sent me the mood board of melting ice cream and cracked earth. I was terrified. But terror is just excitement without the breath, right?" The shoot was slated for two days. By noon of Day 1, the cast and crew had gone through four cases of water. The male talent, Anton Harden, recalls the moment he knew this wasn't a standard shoot. -BlackedRaw- Summer Jones - Sweltering Summer -...
"What you see in the final cut—the way I’m breathing, the slow movements—that’s not performance," Jones admits. "That’s physiology. If I moved fast, I would have passed out. The heat forced us to be slow, deliberate, primal. You can't fake that kind of lethargic desire." The final cut of -BlackedRaw- Summer Jones runs 42 minutes. It is a slow burn in the most literal sense. "You can't fake a 113-degree day," Harden notes