A lot of young actors were passing on Gregg Araki's #IWantYourSex because they didn’t want to play a sub and, as the director puts it, were wary of the more “unmanly” elements the role came with. ⁠ ⁠ “They weren’t secure enough to do it,” he says. #CooperHoffman wasn’t worried about that part and was excited about the nerves he felt when reading the script. He flew himself out to L.A. to do an in-person chemistry read with Olivia Wilde. “That cinched it for me,” Araki says. “He’s so young, but he has a lot of gravitas. It reminded me of the way Brady Corbet was; he was 15 when we made 'Mysterious Skin', but he talked like a 30-year-old.”⁠ ⁠ 'I Want Your Sex' was meant to be bookended pretty tightly with Hoffman’s role in Luca Guadagnino's #Artificial. When it was dropped by Amazon and it looked like there was a chance it might never see the light of day, the first thing Hoffman felt was … relief. Later, he got a call saying that Guadagnino was going to take on OpenAI and wanted Hoffman...