That was the period of time when those early videos came to the light. It was a disaster, but sensing some potential in the boy, Van Sant recommended he go to acting classes before looking any further. As revealed in an interview with New York Magazine, Gus Van Sant was one watcher who fell in love with Rex’s mix of Greek-god body and boyish character and called him for an audition for a supporting role in Good Will Hunting (1997). Having demonstrated his brilliance as a host on the music network that defined the aesthetic and youthful feel of the 1990s, acting soon came knocking at his door. Rex was used to the eccentric life: born in San Francisco to hippie parents (his mother was an environmental activist his father a photographer), you would think he was just carried on a gentle breeze of opportunity from the restaurant where he bussed tables to MTV parties.
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Simon Rex poses for the press during the 1996 MTV Movie Awards, when he was one of the network’s stars. That same year, the MTV network asked Markus Schenkenberg, one of the most famous models of the 1990s, to audition as a host, but as he was unable to attend, his agency sent Rex instead.įor two years, Rex became a popular figure who introduced music videos (when they were still being broadcast on TV) and interviewed artists, often shirtless, in order to show off a superior physique obtained a little bit from the gym, a little bit from genes. In 1995 he posed in campaigns for brands like Tommy Hilfiger and coincided in fashion shows and parties with Mark Ronson, then also a model. “He’s not a model, he’s just here with me.” The next scene is another cliché: Simon Rex flies to Milan. The dialogue is so commonplace as to be cliché: “Who is he?”. Accompanying his childhood sweetheart to a model casting, an agency director noticed him.
With the exception of porn, Simon Rex’s biography resembles that of many other photogenic young people in the right place at the right time. Red Rocket, which opens in Spain in May, has brought Rex - who at the height of his fame was a pretty face, in his decline a joke and during the last few years a pariah - some of the best reviews of the year, the award for best actor at the Independent Spirit Awards and, incidentally, a reconciliation with the murkiest part of his past. That Rex is talking again about the subject he avoided for years, as if it were an exorcism, is because he plays a porn actor in Red Rocket, the new film by Sean Baker, who in Tangerine (2015) or The Florida Project (2017) portrayed the dreams and hopes of the lumpen who survive behind the neon lights of Las Vegas or Disneyland.
Rex thus became the epitome of the star born at the dawn of a new era, who has a hidden past that catches him by surprise: a new era in which nothing that has ever been recorded, written or said can be forgotten. That resulted in four tapes with not exactly cryptic titles ( Young, Hard and Alone, for example, or Hot Sessions I, II and III) which, when Rex became a celebrity in the United States, were re-released a few years later and saw the light of day thanks to the internet. Desperate to stay afloat, he answered an ad in a Los Angeles newspaper seeking models to pose nude.
It started in 1993, when he was 19 years old and cleaning tables. Actor Simon Rex, 47, may be the last person in the history of Hollywood who believed he could shoot four porn movies, find fame and live in a world where this past wouldn’t come out.
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