Riley Davis: Why Vertical Drama Villains Have More Fun
Riley Davis, the red-haired villain of ShortMax's The Alpha King's Chosen Mate, on vertical dramas, playing the bad girl, and her country music.
She opens the werewolf drama by ripping out her on-screen sister's heart, and she tells Mike it was the last thing they filmed. Riley walks through the road from northern Kentucky to Western Kentucky University to Los Angeles, why COVID pushed her west instead of to New York, and how background work, the strike, and a stack of student films built her reel before vertical dramas took over her life in 2025.
We get into why villains get more room to…
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