People project and see what they want to see. That wasn't my read in watching the film, and I was curious if that feels accurate to you. I was curious because I've been reading a bunch of write-ups that describe your character as a sexual predator. The fact that there's any hypocrisy around this stuff is so insane. If you've checked into any hotel in the world, it's a multi-billion dollar industry. Clearly everybody in some form or another has watched a porno. He's living in a particular time when there's so much judgment around this subject and the world of porn. He is one of those classic characters-there's a lot more going on beneath the surface than he ever lets on. This guy is living with a lot of secrets, a lot of frustration, a lot of disappointment. How would you describe your character before Corrigan comes along?Ĭertainly mysterious. Then he said that James would be doing the "heavy lifting." So I got competitive and I was like, "Well, I don't want him to do everything." Then I met Garrett and developed an immediate man-crush on him.
Then I met with Justin, and he put me at ease and I felt like he was going to handle everything with dignity and grace.
I felt that I was getting the opportunity to convey an actual human being.
I was thrilled that he actually thought of me for the role, and I was thrilled with the role. We recently sat down with Kelly and Slater to discuss the trickiness of trying to be nonjudgmental while making a film about underage porn stars, intergenerational relationships, and murder.Ĭhristian Slater: James Franco presented me with this script, and I thought, Wow, this is definitely intriguing and different. It probably isn't a coincidence that in a film featuring no out gay actors, there is an almost palpable lack of passion or sensuality. Unfortunately, the rest lacks much in the way of nuance, particularly in the scenes between Kerekes (James Franco) and Cuadra (Keegan Allen), which are wooden and a bit boring. And Clayton is a serviceable Corrigan, melding his boyish Nickelodeon charm with a hint of more adult mischievousness. Convicted of second-degree murder, Cuadra and Kerekes are still in jail today.ĭespite what some early buzz suggested, director Justin Kelly avoided representing Kocis (Christian Slater) as a one-note sexual predator, and Slater's depiction of him is by far the best part of the film. During this time, he also began sleeping with the director and owner of the company, Bryan Kocis, a middle-aged man who produced bareback twink porn from his home in Dallas Township, Pennsylvania.Īfter doing eight films with Cobra Video, Corrigan realized that he was making vastly less money than Kocis was raking in, and threatened to reveal that he was underage when he made his first film unless Kocis released him from his contract and gave him the rights to his nom d'porn so that he could make films with other companies-in particular,, a low-fi porn company run by Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes.Ĭuadra and Kerekes, in desperate need for money and convinced that a film with Corrigan would be their million-dollar-ticket, decided to take matters into their own hands and murdered Kocis, a plan Lockhart knew nothing about-in fact, Kocis had already agreed to release Lockhart from his contract when the killing occurred. Lockhart, better known by his porn name, Brent Corrigan, was a suburban 17-year-old who started making porn in 2004 with the company Cobra Video.
The true story of Sean Paul Lockhart has all the subtlety of a Jack Chick tract.