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. “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. 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.” Acolytes of this era of man know anything is possible, and we are pleased if not surprised whenever the possible comes true for them.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. There is a world in which Simon Rex - like Wahlberg, a former porn star, Calvin Klein model, and '90s flash in the pan - becomes a mogul, multi-millionaire, and offers vanity series on HBO in between tequila launches for $100 million a hit. ![]() "Marky" Mark Wahlberg of the Funky Bunch famously reinvented himself by starring as Dirk, proving that boy-band burnouts could be taken seriously by Hollywood with one brilliant performance in one brilliant director's brilliant movie.A young Simon starred in titles like Young, Hard, and Solo #2 and #3, with masturbation as the main attraction for a mostly male audience. Both were cis-het-male minors, on the verge of homelessness in California, hiding "something wonderful just waiting to get out" behind their jeans, and wound up in the porn industry. Before all of these mediocre but acceptable gigs, Simon's teenage years look (uncomfortably, uneasily) like those of Eddie Adams, birth name of 1997's Boogie Nights protagonist Dirk Diggler.Without streaming, we all watched it - at the same time - and just raged alone in our bedrooms. It was the final era when people behaved as if no one was watching, and those who grew up drooling over Simon, cutting his face out of magazines, absolutely made the most of that fact. Tables were danced on, canoodling took place, drugs were taken. He was rumored to be dating fellow Y2K-era icons like Paris Hilton and Tara Reid.Our version of secret communication was what's fondly known as a " telephone," with a cord. We didn't have Signal, Kik, Telegram, or screenshotting abilities. MTV was basically TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, all in one. ![]() He was on TV, back when TV was our whole world.Many an elderly millennial recalls their adolescence (and sexual awakening) being intimately, feverishly, powerfully affected by watching him on MTV every day after school.
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