Simon Rex in his new film “Red Rocket” is on “top of my game” and has the universe on his side. And while that’s the character speaking, the early reviews for Rex’s performance as a washed-up porn star after the film premiered at Cannes were also the best of the actor’s career.
“Red Rocket” is the latest film from “The Florida Project” and “Tangerine” director Sean Baker, and Simon Rex — who you may know as comedian and rapper Dirt Nasty — transforms himself for the role. He plays an “adult film actor” who returns to his hometown in Texas and to his wife while claiming to be a reformed man.