LOS ANGELES—Mainstream filmmaker Sebastián Silva’s queer comedy Rotting in the Sun is making a big impact at the Sundance International Film Festival even before its screening after it was revealed it features actual oral sex, Variety reported today.
Starring the popular social media personality Jordan Firstman and Silva as fictionalized versions of themselves, the film also features graphic sex acts and full frontal male nudity. In the film, Silva plays a suicidal director and Firstman is a social media influencer who is trying to get his first television series off the ground.
Silva confirmed to the publicaton that a lot of the sex in the film is real and is not simulated.
“Everybody watches porn,” Firstman told Variety. “It’s this thing where it can’t be in a movie or a TV show when we’re literally watching more porn than we are movies. The way we do it, symbolically, to me what it says about gay culture is that it’s meaningless. If there’s a cock there, I’m going to suck it. That’s how my life goes and how a lot of gay men’s lives go. It’s just there.”
Interestingly, Rotting in the Sun's arrival coincides with the 20-year anniversary of director/actor Vincent Gallo's infamous film The Brown Bunny, which sparked much controversery following its premiere at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for a scene in which actress Chloë Sevigny performed unsimulated fellatio on Gallo.
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Pictured: Catalina Saavedra and Jordan Firstman (Courtesy Hidden Content).
