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Rex simply had no desire to play hard-to-get. Rex hopes that his performance as former porn star Mikey Saber leads to more opportunities for roles. “It was a little red flag, like, are you taking this seriously? But then I watched the clip and he was 90 per cent there with the character already. I phoned him up and asked for a self-tape audition and he sent one back in 20 minutes,” recalls Baker, who wrote the part of Mikey with Rex in mind. “He understood the character really fast. So, Red Rocket is not exactly a long-awaited return to form for Rex – there was, strictly speaking, no real form to return to – but instead a startling debut of qualities and talents hitherto unknown.

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Following a former porn star named Mikey Saber (Rex) as he tries to stage a comeback from his dusty and depressed hometown of Texas City, the film is exhilarating, provocative and filthy in both spirit and content, with Baker daring audiences to attach themselves to a man who is at best a narcissist, at worst a predator.īut more than representing the latest gutter-cinema triumph for Baker, the movie sells the startling comeback story of Simon Rex, the man who dominated MTV for a heady few years in the mid-90s before falling into a loop of Hollywood detritus: forgotten sitcoms, Scary Movie sequels (the later, really bad ones) and jokey hip-hop acts whose humour went over, or under, most everyone’s heads (Rex’s rap name was Dirt Nasty around this point). The dark comedy, which was shot guerrilla-style in the thick of the pandemic last year, is the latest movie from Baker ( Starlet, Tangerine, The Florida Project) to explore those living on the margins of the American dream. Welcome to the production of Red Rocket, a film that works in spite of the many obstacles its creators faced, or placed in their own way.