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LOS ANGELES—Multiple times last summer, colleagues told Kayden Kross to take a break.COVID-19 had forced a halt in in studio porn, and with the entire country in a state of panic, many production companies decided to “shut things down” altogether for the rest of 2020. Kross, though, never flinched. She kept brainstorming, kept exploring ideas for costumes and sets, kept tinkering with scripts for Deeper, her imprint with Vixen Media Group. Even if she’d wanted to scale back, Kross told friends she couldn’t.