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Simon Rexis opening up about one of his most memorable props.
TheRed Rocketactor, 47, told PEOPLE he “wasn’t allowed” to keep the prosthetic penis he wore in the Sean Baker-helmed film as he arrived at Saturday’s 33rd Producers Guild of America Awards. “I don’t think that was an option, but it will be in a museum one day,” he said.
When asked if he would donate the piece to the newly opened Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, Rex replied: “I like that idea.”
After going nude in the critically-acclaimed film, Rex confirmed earlier this month in his acceptance speech for Best Male Lead at the Film Independent Spirit Awards that he was in fact wearing a prosthesis. “I finally had to let it be known,” he said.
“I just had fun with it, and me and Sean Baker … we agreed that we were going to keep it mysterious, and not say whether or not that was really me naked,” Rex explained. “And at that point, after we won the Spirit Award, I said, ‘It’s time to tell people.’ We did this for eight months. We somehow got away with it for eight months. It was just time to let people know.”
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InRed Rocket, Rex plays Mikey Saber, a con man and washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown with very little welcome from the locals, all while plotting his way back to the big time.
“It’s been very surreal, because we’ve all been living in this strange time together, in thisTwilight Zonepandemic, strange times collectively that we’re all in,” he explained. “So if you add, on top of that, this amazing highlight of my career, it just adds to the weirdness of it all.
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Red Rocketis now available on streaming and Blu-ray.
source: people.com
