You left your family and you left college and you moved to L.A., 3,000 miles away, and that was a risk, so are you going to stop taking risks now? I was like, You’re right. “I remember I called my mom and I described it and I said, What do you think? And she goes, Well, you left your whole life behind. “My acting coach is doing it with me, just standing behind the camera, which is hilarious because I have to take off my clothes,” Clayton recalled. He just wants to make money.” (You can watch the scene exclusively here on Vulture.)Ĭlayton got the part by sending in an audition tape of the film’s opening, a familiar audition scene in which the fresh-faced Corrigan strips for Stephen, who watched from behind a video camera. “He seems very boyish and charming and cute and a little flirty, and the second the door closes, he kind of exhales and you can tell he doesn’t give a fuck about this guy. “There’s an early scene where he stays the first night at Stephen’s house and he’s being very coy before going to bed,” Kelly said. In his notes to the young actor, Kelly told Clayton to strike a balance between Corrigan’s two personas. “But that’s what I was looking for and that’s what this gave.” “After Disney, I was looking for more fascinating, leveled, adult work - not to be punny,” Clayton told Vulture.
It’s a difficult balance to strike.” Kelly and his producers soon found Garrett Clayton, who was eager to leave the world of family-friendly entertainment. “The role requires that very special mix of someone who can play the naïve Sean Lockhart from San Diego, yet also the confident and sexy Brent Corrigan. “We needed to find someone who not only had the look, the vibe, the acting ability, but also would be willing to play a gay porn star,” said Kelly.
(The real Corrigan has spoken out against the film, saying it makes a mockery of gay porn.) As in real life, Clayton’s Corrigan gets embroiled in a legal battle with his producer Stephen (Christian Slater) over the rights to his porn name, and the film ends with rival porn producers (Franco and Keegan Allen) killing Stephen in order to work with Brent - who promptly turns them in to the police. Clayton plays real-life twink porn star Brent Corrigan, and as director Justin Kelly told Vulture in a recent interview, his sparse résumé was a boon for the film: “I definitely thought that would really help for the role, if it could feel like we’re discovering someone at the same time that is.”įor those unfamiliar with the story of Brent Corrigan, the film follows the broad outline of his early career: As 17-year-old Sean Paul Lockhart, he moves to Los Angeles with a fake ID, gets his start in the porn industry, and becomes an overnight - and underage - sensation.
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King Cobra might be best known as the gay porn–murder movie starring James Franco, but the film’s actual star is Garrett Clayton, a unknown whose previous credits include the Disney Channel original movie Teen Beach Movie and a short stint on ABC Family’s The Fosters. Brent Corrigan (left) and Garrett Clayton (right).