# @hollywoodreporter on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-08-06T16:01:22.000+00:00
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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. ⁠
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“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.”⁠
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'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 to play Greg Brockman, a software engineer who served as its president before briefly quitting in solidarity when Altman was fired. Hoffman said yes immediately — “It’s Luca, you say yes” — and was eager to engage with the conversation around AI.⁠
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