![]() Already at that point, the phone wasn’t ringing as much as it used to for work. 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. 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.
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