The indie auteur’s latest, starring Simon Rex as a washed-up porn actor, reflects on his desire to tell 'stories that I want heard that are not being told.'
about how audiences have received the film, the power of smart casting and location scouting, and why he’s so interested in characters who can’t resist the hustle.It came about through research on one of my previous films,. We were shooting in these model houses and on the sets of adult films. We got to meet a handful of Mikey Sabers and realized that there was this archetype [and even] a slang term applied to them within the industry: the suitcase pimp. After.
You’re known for working with first-time performers. What are you looking for when you’re casting a film, from the trained and the untrained actors? The grind is definitely dramatic. And being a dramatist, I find that intriguing [because] it’s not the norm. I’ve been a hustler [in film] for the last 25 years, right? This is a celebrated capitalist society — we celebrate the wealth that you can accumulate here, the success that you can have in this country.
Unfortunately, I’m insecure. Artists are insecure human beings. I do actually care about what people think, even though I shouldn’t. But at the same time, I’ve started to actually analyze this a little bit more because of the reactions the film is getting. Didn’t I break this story back in 2017, just before the #MeToo movement, before Time’s Up? I’m not doing this to provoke during this specific time … but then, maybe I am.
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