Cooper Hoffman is courting controversy — onscreen, anyway.
Finding his way beyond father Philip Seymour Hoffman’s formidable shadow, the 23-year-old 'I Want Your Sex' and 'Artificial' star is ready to get uncomfortable — branching beyond the safety net of his father’s inner circle and taking on roles in two of the year’s most provocative films.
After Hoffman saw an early cut of
#IWantYourSex (dir. Gregg Araki) for the first time, and with the liquid courage of a post-screening martini, he decided that he was both really proud of what he’d done and really excited for people to see it. And then he got to Sundance, where the film had its premiere.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, I actually can’t believe this theater is going to watch this.’ And it got to the scene of me masturbating, and all I could think was, ‘Please shut it off. Please shut it off.’“
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