Red Rocket star Simon Rex is the guy you might want to nominate for Best Actor the most, partly because he's been down and around and seen the bottom of the abyss but is now bouncing back and into the swing (winner of LAFCA's Best Actor award, future recipient of the 2022 Santa Barbara Film Festival's Virtuoso award, slated to costar in Down Low with Zachary Quinto and then Mack & Rita with Diane Keaton) and because everyone loves it when a guy who allegedly "lives off the grid in Joshua Tree, California, in the middle of the Mojave Desert" suddenly gets to be an Oscar nominee, and because he agreed to shoot Red Rocket on the fly without telling his agent (he made the call on the last day of shooting), and because it feels good and right when the stars align and a new chapter begins...we all love that.
January 8, 2022by Jeffrey WellsNo Comments