Simon Rex is nothing like his character, but he and the washed-up porn star he plays in Red Rocket have one thing in common. “The phone wasn’t ringing,” the actor told me, adding, “I was contemplating ...

IndieWire Honors: The "Red Rocket" star hosts the event, taking place on December 5 in Los Angeles. That atypical Cinderella story could earn Baker some long overdue credit with the Academy, but the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simon Rex attends the 33rd Annual Producers Guild Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on March 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even Simon Rex’s personal “Red Rocket” is a work of art. Since the film premiered at Cannes, there’s been much ado about the actor ...

Red Rocket director and co-screenwriter Sean Baker revealed that Mikey Saber, the always-hustling washed-up porn actor who returns to the Texas hometown that wasn’t exactly sorry to see him go, was ...

Simon Rex, a name once synonymous with MTV VJs and late nights with Paris Hilton, had hit a career dead end. Then the phone rang. The voice on the other end was indie film darling Sean Baker, who had ...

Simon Rex, the one-time MTV personality now starring in Red Rocket, director Sean Baker’s follow-up to The Florida Project, was at a Halloween party in the Hollywood Hills this fall when someone in a ...

Simon Rex arrived at the Cannes film festival this year as an outsider: it’s pretty unlikely that any other actors in this year’s heavyweight competition line-up could boast a recurring role in the ...

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