This was July 2020 everyone was wondering what the f*ck is going on. I was just at a point where everyone was collectively in this weird place. What was attractive to you about the role? Where were you at in your life and why were you interested? Sean Baker reached out to you with this role in mind. “I was like, ‘I’ve got nothing to lose the world is ending, let’s go for it.’”Ī few days later, Rex was in Texas ready to start shooting. “Already at that point, the phone wasn’t ringing as much as it used to for work,” Rex tells NYLON. He sent over some pages from the script, and within an hour, Rex had recorded an audition on his iPhone. Rex had been making wacky videos on Instagram during lockdown when he got a call from Baker, who said he had him in mind for the role. The former MTV VJ-turned-actor best known for his rap persona, Dirt Nasty, bares himself, again and again, and it’s that magnetism that caught Baker’s attention. Saber is a charming degenerate, and thanks to Rex’s messy, wildcard magnetism, it totally works. Before long, he meets Strawberry (played by rising star Suzanna Son) a perky 17-year-old doughnut shop employee whom he’s determined to groom into the best porn star the San Fernando Valley has ever seen. He has to beg his estranged wife (Bree Elrod) to let him crash at her mother’s home, sell dimebags to locals, and figure out what the hell to do with his life. And against your better judgment, you find yourself rooting for him, anyway.Īt the start of Sean Baker’s latest film, Saber returns to his south Texas hometown with little to lose, and even less to offer. “She said: 'It's nice to know there are still good people,'” Rex told The Guardian.For Simon Rex, his Red Rocket character, the washed-up former porn star Mikey Saber, is an “antihero character study.” Saber is self-centered and down-on-his-luck à la Kenny Powers in Eastbound and Down one part your mom’s skeezy boyfriend who brings weird gifts, but never calls when he says he will, and one part Hollywood conman who allegedly makes money, yet always foots you with the bill. Markle sent him a thank you note for choosing to be honest, which he has framed in his Joshua Tree home. “I was broke as f-! I really needed the money … But I'll be on food stamps before I do that,” he told the publication. Rex and Markle both appeared on a 2005 episode of Cuts, but they only ever went to a platonic lunch together. tabloids offered him $70,000 to say he was intimate with Meghan Markle while she was still working as an actress. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Red Rocket actor Simon Rex said several U.K. SIMON REX REFUSED $70,000 OFFER TO SAY HE SLEPT WITH MEGHAN MARKLE Rex said that the prop “will be in a museum one day.” When asked if he would donate it to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, he said, “I like that idea.” “I finally had to let it be known,” he added. 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. “I just had fun with it, and me and Sean Baker … we agreed that we were going to keep it mysterious, and not say whether or not that was really me naked,” he said. Rex let the world know that he was wearing a prosthesis during the nude scene in the film while accepting the award for Best Male Lead at the Independent Spirit Awards. At the 33rd annual Producers Guild Awards Saturday (March 19th), Simon Rex told People he “wasn’t allowed” to keep the prosthetic penis he wore for Red Rocket.
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