![]() ![]() Mikey is cluelessly vain, an unending braggart ever monologuing about past porn-world glories. Red Rocket is yet another example of Baker’s keen handling of actors, professionals and not.īut as the film unfolds, we begin to see something sinister in there, too. He and Baker make staccato music together, as Mikey’s profile shifts from hangdog loser to something far more complicated. Rex’s performance is fleet and nimble, gregarious and shaded in darkness. Which is all to say, Baker’s choice is a rather perfect one-in contextual terms and actual ones, too. Like Mikey, Rex’s heyday was around 25 years ago too his legacy has largely been reduced to “remember that guy?” snickers and a sort of conspiratorial knowledge shared by many gay men in their 30s and 40s who intimately knew Rex’s earlier work. Penniless and, it would seem, homeless, he returns to his native Gulf Coast Texas, ready to start a starry-eyed scramble all over again.īaker made a fascinating choice when casting Mikey: the MTV VJ turned actor turned rapper Simon Rex, who also did some (solo) porn as he was getting started as a model. ![]() It’s simply time that got him, his work drying up after 20 years in the business. Unlike Dirk, Mikey hasn’t been derailed by drugs and the advent of home video. And how is this happening now? And I still think I'm just reeling from it all.If Dirk Diggler, the hustling and hustled porn star from 1997’s Boogie Nights, were to find himself in 2016, he might look something like Mikey Saber-the bedraggled adult film star who occupies the frenzied center of Sean Baker’s latest film, Red Rocket. I'll be in a hotel room by myself and I just start cracking up because it's kind of like, life is just a big cosmic joke. "So if you add, on top of that, this amazing highlight of my career, it just adds to the weirdness of it all. He explained: "It's been very surreal, because we've all been living in this strange time together, in this Twilight Zone pandemic, strange times collectively that we're all in. The movie has marked a career resurgence for the former model and he admitted his sudden return to success has been "very surreal". We somehow got away with it for eight months. "And at that point, after we won the Spirit Award, I said, 'It's time to tell people.' We did this for eight months. we agreed that we were going to keep it mysterious, and not say whether or not that was really me naked. "I just had fun with it, and me and Sean Baker. Speaking about making the admission when he accepted Best Male Lead at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, he said: "I finally had to let it be known. Simon - who plays a con man and former porn star in the movie - only confirmed last month that he wore a prosthesis for his nude scenes and was amazed he "got away with it" for so long. When asked if he would donate the piece to the newly=opened Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, he added to People magazine: "I like that idea." He said: "I don't think was an option, but it will be in a museum one day." The 48-year-old actor donned a prosthetic for his role in 'Red Rocket' and because he "wasn't allowed" to take it home as a souvenir at the end of filming, he likes the idea of it being put on display instead. ![]()
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