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Deen and Lohan on the set of The Canyons, in one of the rare moments when the actress actually showed up.

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for good reason. Another insider tattles that Schrader was concerned about how best to shoot Lohans once-fresh face, which appears to have been affected by plastic surgery and partying. This is not the Lindsay Lohan of Mean Girls, he says. All of the on-set troubles may not matter one bit when it comes to making The Canyons protable. The lm was shot for about $250,000 much of it raised on Kickstarter. (One hilarious side effect is that IMDb now lists 16 co- or associate producers for the movie. One person earned a producer credit for agreeing to mail out the Kickstarter rewards; another got it for lending the production his Malibu house.) The lmmakers cut deals with locations to keep costs down. Deen drives his own car in the lm. Catering was hardly spectacular, consisting of cold Subway sandwiches and an expired tub of Cheetos (though Lohan and Schrader ate different food). Although The Canyons is getting a limited theatrical release, it could likely earn decent money on pay-per-view. Last years Bachelorette took in just $447,000 in theaters, but raked in $7.4 million on VOD. Whos not going to pay $10 to watch this movie? Deen asks. Even just to see Lindsay Lohans boobs and to see if the porn guy can act? Totally worth it. reed.tucker@nypost.com

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Deen and Stoya at the AVN Awards in Las Vegas.

The Brangelina of porn

was in kindergarten and found a pornographic magazine: Be in adult lm. Born Bryan Sevilla, he grew up in Pasadena, Calif., and had a happy childhood. His parents worked for NASA. As a teen, he heard porn star Jenna Jameson offering advice on a radioshow,saying that anyone who wanted to be in the industry would have to have the ability to perform in front of a roomful of people. Deen began having sex in public at parties. He entered the industry at 18, has won numerous awards and now reportedly earns $20,000 a month. Despite his success in adult lm, Deen realized hed have trouble earning respect on a regular lm. He says that some people saw him as a joke, but he worked hard to win over everyone on The Canyons. James Deen was my biggest surprise, Chetney says. Not really knowing him and hearing he was a porn actor, then nding out hes a regular guy,smart and not a diva in the least. Sources say Deen was always prepared and professional on set. Unlike Lohan. At one point, she demanded that I light her like a real cinematographer, says director of photography John DeFazio. She wasnt joking. She screamed this at me on the set. Lohan was often late at least 30 minutes and up to several hours. As soon as she was done with a scene, shed go off into her room and smoke by herself, one source says. That was if Schrader could get her to lm at all. The director and his troubledstarsquabbledconstantly, over everything from her characters motivation to contract minutiae. Most of Lohans scenes were shot in

one take, because thats all shed do. It was very easy to set her off. She could just be done with it and leave, says someone close to the lm. She would get into an argument with Paul or shed feel James Deen wasnt taking it seriously enough, and shed just be done with that scene. She and Paul had power struggles because they both have egos and were like, Its my movie! Its my movie! Deen says, adding that he now has a policy not to talk about Lohan. Its everyones mov-

ie. It was a group effort. I thought [Schrader] lost control of the set whenever Lindsay would throw a tantrum, Chetney adds. One day, Lohan appeared for a scene wearing very heavy, Cleopatra-like makeup. Schrader asked if maybe a subtler look would be more appropriate, but Lohans makeup artist intervened, snapping, Thats the look these days. What? Now the makeup artist is directing this scene? the on-set source asks. Its ridiculous. Though maybe the makeup was

James Deen and gal pal Stoya are skin-flick royalty

tale of the tape

James Deen has appeared in so many adult movies some 4,000 scenes that he finds it difficult to choose a fave. There have been so many it would be impossible to pick just one, he says. So we chose one for him: 2013s Orgy University, mostly because the title entertains us. How does it stack up against The Canyons? R.T.

olitics has Bill and Hillary, music has Jay Z and Beyonc, and porn has James Deen and Stoya the industrys powercouple. Although California remains the center of the adult industry, Stoya, 27,actually lives in Bushwick and performs occasionally at Lower East Side nightclubThe Box. Shes under contract with a studio called Digital Playground, and she often performs scenes with her beau. Deen has said that dating civilians when youre a porn star is difficult. Either they get freaked out about

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Kimberly Kane (above), winner of AVNs Best Actress award for 2009s The Sex Files:A Dark XXX Parody Skin Diamond, Johnny Pistol Add it to your bucket list. In the privacy of your own home. With a former college ame. This lm wastes no time with unnecessary clutter to make the movie longer.I like that approach a whole lot. XCritic.com Deen gets it on with countless others at a prom. Check.

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Paul Schrader, nominated for the Golden Globes Best Screenplay awards for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull Lindsay Lohan (above), Gus Van Sant Its not the hills. In the privacy of your own home. With intoxicated friends. Lohans #weave is my everything. Matt Whiteld on Twitter Deen gets it on with Lohan and two others in Malibu. Check.

what I do before they get a chance to get to know me, or they just want to have sex like one time so they can say they f - - ked a porn star, he told GQ. Having a relationship with another adult performer allows all of the jealousy and everything to fall away. Like Deen, Stoya is not who most would picture as a porn star. She is brunette, pale-skinned and atchested. (She reportedly twice turneddown offers of free boob implants.) She chain-smokes and writes intelligently about her life and the industry for Vice magazine. One sample piece of advice to aspiring performers: Put yourchecks in the bank instead of up your nose or in your closet. Stoyas vibe is more LES art star than California bimbo. On their respective blogs, Deen and Stoya share pictures and gush cutely over one another. Last week, Deen captioned a snapshot of her with that girl is truly special and dazzling. She once wrote, I am his. My body is his, my mouth, vagina ... and my heart is his. R.T.