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Fans of Ward, 44, will remember the bubbly redhead as Rachel McGuire in the popular coming-of-age ABC sitcom "Boy Meets World," but it was in large part due to the fact that the actress was being typecast in Hollywood as simply a comedy performer, thanks to her roles in films such as "White Chicks," that led Ward to ultimately make the decision to leave behind the world of laugh tracks for the fascinations of adult filmmaking – and it was here that Ward found her calling.
"This has always been a dream of mine. I just absolutely do my best under pressure and doing like all of the things that I love. I never want to focus on one thing," Ward told Fox News of exiting Tinseltown.
"I love to do so many different things at once, like writing and cosplay and mainstream acting and porn, and it's always been my intention to go back and forth between worlds, so it's just amazing that the world is allowing me to do that because, in the beginning, people would say, ‘You can't do that. Nobody's going to allow you to do that. Nobody's going to take you seriously in the mainstream if you do porn, nobody's going to want to hear your story.’ And I just kept going," she said.
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Actress Maitland Ward says he was typecast in Hollywood after ‘Boy Meets World’ role. (Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)
Now, the award-winning adult actress, who embarked on her porn career in 2019 nearly two decades after the end of "Boy Meets World," is penning a memoir about her life post-primetime, titled "My Escape From Hollywood: Why I Left to Become a Porn Star," which will hit shelves through Simon & Schuster in 2022.
Furthermore, Ward recently wrapped filming on a pilot episode of "The Big Time" – a comedy series centered on a "world-famous adult superstar" – which will mark a return to the small screen for Ward.
She spoke to Fox News about carving her own career path in Hollywood and the adult film industry as well as dished on her upcoming show and book.
Fox News: Where did you find the passion to try your hand at something completely out of left field but something that was so interesting to you?
Ward: You know, it's interesting. When I was younger I would have never foreseen this. Like, I was shy and I was not comfortable in my sexuality or body or anything like that really early on. I really grew into it, and it took me stepping away from the mainstream.
I moved to New York for a while, and I studied, and really it came from my love of erotic writing. And I started exploring that way, and then I was like, I'm just so interested in all of this. So I started studying that and doing it. But I never thought at the time when I was writing, like 10 years ago – I never thought it would actually be an adult career that I was doing. I thought maybe I would write erotic novels and things like that, because I was really interested in it, or erotic-themed films.
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Matthew Lawrence and Maitland Ward in an episode of ‘Boy Meets World’ in 1998. (Walt Disney Television via Getty Images)
But it was such an authentic process for me. I started on social media, and I would do sexier stuff and more erotic scenes that were not pornography, it was just very sexy and comic book characters, because I love that whole thing and I'm a huge cosplay person, and I never thought that would be a career option either, but my fans kept coming out to the conventions and online and following me and wanting more – and so they gave me that confidence, and that also came with the erotic writing and filmmaking.
Then I started producing content on my own. Really, it was just very sexy, Playboy-esque type content for [the platform] Patreon. And then it just grew, and it really did stem from the writing. I wanted to do things that I couldn't probably do in real life, and just by fate I happened into a network where I could have full scripted films that have all of the hot, crazy sex in it that I wanted, because that's always what I wanted to put together. So it really just fell into place for me that it had the whole erotic scripts and everything that I wanted to do, and then it had all the hot sex. And I think people really identified with that. In the beginning, that wasn't my plan, but it was such an authentic journey for me that my fans were so with me the entire way.