Porno Dan is hurting.
Speaking to XBIZ from his home in Hungary, the prolific director and Immoral Productions impresario is resting up after sustaining a torn ACL while attending a wedding in Berlin.
We were in a big field, and I hopped off a little ledge to cut through some grass, and my knee just gave out,” he explains. “I thought it was my calf because I’d torn my calf muscle back in December, but I had an MRI that confirmed a torn ACL.”
At 55, Dan Leal attributes the injury to decades of daily weightlifting.
“After my calf injury healed, I still couldn’t do leg presses or squats,” he says. Apparently, I had ligament damage and hardly any cartilage in my knee, so I guess years of lifting just caught up with me. My knee was like, ‘You’re old! We’ve had enough.’”
He hopes to delay surgery until after the Euro XMAs in September, but physical therapy is imminent. It will be one more thing on his plate — though he insists his typical day is quite boring.
“My usual day consists of managing content, because I have a huge catalog,” he says. “If I’m not shooting a scene, I’m editing one, so I’ll title and tag it.”
Leal also manages other studios’ and creators’ content with the help of his team at Market64, many of whom work out of Mexico.
“They’ll upload it to 10 different platforms, and that’s how I make money,” he notes. “So a lot of what I’ve been working on for the last two weeks has been supplying content to my business partner so they can feed all the different channels on all the different platforms that we have, since most of my money these days comes from my catalog.”
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