Cooper Hoffman Follows love – Completely literally for his upcoming feature ”I want your sex. “
Hoffman, who debuted in actors Paul Thomas Anderson’s “licorice pizza,” is set to consultation Gregg Arakiupcoming psychose -ecsual thriller “I want your gender.” In the middle of the trend of older woman, younger man romances, Hoffman plays “Sexual Muse” for a well -known artist (Olivia Wilde). “I want your sex” where announced In August 2024 and began production in Los Angeles in October 2024. The function, as co -stars Charli XCX, is currently in post -production.
According to Hoffman, “I Want Your Sex” is a BDSM Dominatrix drama – one that has a surprising overlap with his latest filmSimon Wests ”Old. “While” Old Guy “has Hoffman who plays a murderer who learns from an eldest Hitman (Christoph Waltz),” I want your gender “also Hoffman along with an older mentee … but for eroticism, rather than violence.
“All the movies I have made have, I think, been quite drastically different,” Hoffman told IndieWire in a new interview. “Now I do everything to try to put in as uncomfortable with a position as I can. I think every actor would say so, but that’s really true. I only made a movie with Olivia Wilde where she is a dominatrix for me and it made me so uncomfortable. … I am someone who is very interested in the idea of what will love to make you. “I want your sex” is a really intense adventure that this person continues because he is in love. “
He added, “You can connect it to ‘Old Guy’, (I) that my character lost a lot of love at a young age, and who drives (him) to kill people. Where is it all? It tends to come from either a place to try to win (love) or mourn the loss of love. Not because these two films are somewhere similar, but I think people all kinds derive from one place. ”
When Hoffman resembles his passion for roles to be equally enthusiastic about a new lover, he wanted to put some distance between himself and “I want your sex” after packing the function. “I haven’t seen anything,” Hoffman said of Araki’s movie. “Gregg makes all these editing on their own. It’s just him in a room, locked up, and I think I will be one of the last people who see it. It’s his baby now. To be honest, I don’t want to see it until it’s done. I don’t want any control over it. It’s a string you don’t want to pull on. ”
Instead, Hoffman pointed out how the work with co -star Wilde was one of the “damn coolest” experiences he has had on the set (the actor also confirmed that there was an intimacy coordinator for the production). “I have had the privilege of working with many cool people. Olivia is one of my favorite scene partners ever, ”Hoffman said. “She couldn’t have been cooler with everything. She protected me in a nice way, but also knew when I would let myself be. I couldn’t have asked for a better partner in crime. “
Hoffman told Indiewire that his experience at “Old Guy” has affected how he is approaching other films, such as “I want your sex.” “This was like the second movie I had ever made. I made “licorice pizza” (2021) and then I did this, and this movie really put me in my place, because I think I thought I knew what I was doing and I didn’t, “Hoffman said” Old Guy, “and added that he filmed the action comedy when he had just turned 19.
Did not work with the iconic Anderson for a breakout line in “Lakrit pizza” did Hoffman give the confidence to give to “Old Guy”? Not quite. “It was super scary to step on that set and to act over (from) Christoph Waltz, who has done it forever and knows exactly what he does – and I didn’t,” he said.
Like Wilde on “I Want Your Sex”, Waltz also mentored Hoffman. “I couldn’t have entered that movie without him. He was so caring for me and he really respected me, but also knew he knew more than me and it is a nice balance, ”Hoffman said. “Olivia had a similar balance, even though they are very different people, but the similar type of providing information but also wanted me to find out on my own.”
While Hoffman decided on something of a whim to lead the film-which was his first offer, as opposed to audition for the part-he probably does not come to do so in the future. “I was as if Christoph Waltz does and he wants me to do it, I’m a game,” Hoffman said. “I don’t know what I want until it is in front of me, honestly. I have no specific part or a specific genre that I necessarily glued on or even. I just loved Christoph Waltz all my life. He is one of the actors who do not miss, really. When I photographed the movie, I realized that the guy is just a textbook of knowledge. “
Hoffman continued, “By the way, I normally (now) do not pass by who is attached. This is what I mean: I was so young. … I didn’t really record what I had to do. It is a difficult job, and it was a very intense action movie with a character that had many layers for him. Now I look so much more at the character than I did at that time. It’s no better or worse, it’s just different. It’s just about doing it more and knowing now. ”
Hoffman, whose father is the late icon Philip Seymour Hoffman, also reasoned with his “old guy” character who finds a surrogate dad in Waltz’s role. “I was really drawn to the father’s side of it. I understand the anger against an older father figure and also understand that you need them, ”Hoffman said. “It was something that I probably had to do with in the middle of my life, and so it’s always a blessing when a script comes that reflects how you feel.”
“Old Guy” beats theaters after Hoffman’s turn In Jason Reitman’s lively “Saturday Night,” which he actually filmed after West’s movie. And Hoffman said he was not really happy that “Saturday night” because of filming “I want your sex.”
“I didn’t make (a lot) pressure for” Saturday night “, and it’s not something against the movie, I just worked,” he said. “I had the privilege of working at that time, but oh my good, I was so jealous. I remember they all went to Telluride, literally everyone except me went to Telluride and Tiff and I was in Canada (filming). I was so jealous because that role is so fun to be with. They are all very fun, entertaining people, and I became very bummed about it. “
Hoffman was a little surprised that there was no “Saturday night” moment on the real “SNL”, however, especially considering the 50th anniversary celebration. “We haven’t done anything with ‘SNL.’ I think we may all think we would do more, Hoffman said. “It’s not the movie is not in any way a reflection of what” SNL “is today. It is a time capsule of another time, what it was. ”
Among his funny and entertaining “Saturday Night” co -stars: Andrew Feldman, with whom Hoffman will be reunited for Maude Apatow’s director’s debut “Poetic License.” Hoffman confirmed that he just stopped shooting the function.
Hoffman will next start in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” director Francis Lawrence’s Stephen King adaptation, “The Long Walk.” The Ensemble movie is located in a dystopian America that has a long walking competition where 50 teenage boys go without rest.
“David Jonsson, who just won at Baftas (for the Rising Star Award) is in it, and he is also the damn coolest. And that movie is amazing, ”Hoffman said. “I’ve made some really good friends on it. All these guys are super legit. Charlie Plummer is in it, which is the damn best and has become a very close friend. “
Off-screen is Hoffman completely submerged I-and undoubtedly beaten Med-Hans Off-Broadway games “The Curse of the Starving Class.” Sam Shepard production stars Calista Flockhart and Christian Slater as Hoffman’s character’s parents, with Stella Marcus who played her younger sister.
“I’ve never gone on a stage before,” Hoffman said to make his debut outside Broadway. “This paragraph is ridiculous and in a good way. It is about a dysfunctional family and that this son becomes his father. It’s Sam Shepard, it’s beautifully written, it’s as if you don’t have to do much work. You just trust the words. I mean, I joke when you say I don’t have to do much work. It’s everything consumed. It’s ridiculous. (…) I realized that I’m talking about this game that I’m talking about a girlfriend; That’s all I’m talking about and it’s crazy. It takes up all your time. That’s the only thing you think about. ”
What else does Hoffman think about? Maybe make more career sticks, such as directing as Apatow? Not quite. “Oh god, I don’t know,” he said. “So many cool things happen to young people. I feel that I only work with people who are older than me. I think I am forced into elderly. I would love to direct in some way. I would love to do everything, but I always say that I should stop acting when I want to stop acting. I do it because that’s what I want to do right now, and I have the privilege to be a functioning actor. But the other I don’t want to do it … again, not to talk about it as a girlfriend, but there is something about it. It is, as when I am when I’m ready to break up, I will break up and try to find another love. “
Hoffman continued, “I think right now, what I’m most interested in (acts). You are told by a bunch of actors that you will never figure it out and so as that kind is scary, but it is also nice because you just always want to keep doing it and like the elderly I get, I hope I become like ( different roles). I can’t wait to play a dad one day. I can’t wait to play boss for anyone. It is also exciting, and I think it comes with age and living life and does all these things. I could rant to you for an eternity about letting you age in different roles. That is Exciting for me. ”
An Avenue edition, “Old Guy” will be in selected theaters and will be at Digital on Friday 21 February.
