I Want Cooper's Sex

When I heard Gregg Araki was making a new movie I was very excited -- Araki is on my Gay Mount Rushmore and it's been an entire decade since he made a movie with White Bird in a Blizzard in 2014. Which is outrageous. When I heard the movie was set to star Olivia Wilde though I will admit I was a little bit... confused about how I felt. Because I've never really been a fan of hers -- it had nothing to do with the brouhaha surrounding her relationship with whatshisface; my indifference long pre-dated that nonsense. That said Wilde fits perfectly into the kind of actress that Araki loves -- almost alien in their beauty, and kind of cold. I could see him knowing how to use her well. Anyway the details on the movie came next -- it's going to be called I Want Your Sex and it's suppoesly about a young man awakening a ferocious sexual appetite in an older woman. Sounds right up Araki's alley. (And obviously it's a casting that's leaning into that whole whatshisname kerfuffle.) Whatever hottie would Araki cast as the horndog lothario, I wondered? Well I could have wondered for ten years straight and never gotten around to who he just cast -- Cooper Hoffmann, son of Phillip Seymour Hoffmann, who was so tremndously good in Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza but who never exactly screamed this casting here at me all the same. But fuck it, I'm into it, he's proved a terrific actor in PTA's film, and I love it when somebody unearths sex appeal from somewhere you're not looking for it. Surprise sexiness is the best kind! Bring it on, Coop!