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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