Gotcha!!! Made you look.
My name is James Deen, and I made a movie called The Canyons, directed by Paul Schrader, written by Bret Easton Ellis, and starring Lindsay Lohan and me…
Porn actor James Deen wrote a rather earnest, straight-forward article about his experience in The Daily Beast. You should read it. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, this happened.
After my first meeting with Paul, he mentioned he was going to a James Franco party for an art piece he commissioned called “Rebel Dabble Babble.” “I’m in that!” I told him. I ended up crashing the party with Bret, but that’s another story. My not receiving an invite to a party to celebrate a project I was part of is the point. One, Franco is a dick. Two, I would be fighting an uphill battle. Paul and his wife were not the only ones who thought of me as a party trick. Other than Braxton, Bret, and in time, the crew of The Canyons, everyone I met and worked with saw me as a joke.
But there’s more than that.
We’ve been following The Canyons since the beginning. We’ve been interviewing James Deen since the beginning. So now, he’s going to talk and you listen because Hollywood people don’t do this stuff.
People didn’t know what to do with me.
I can’t speak for Lindsay or how she feels. I only know I didn’t feel like she thought I was a joke. She made me feel good when I was around her.
I don’t care if people don’t take me seriously as an actor. I don’t mind being the butt of Paul Schrader’s jokes. I don’t mind being the odd one out at these weird Hollywood parties. I like when they try to make me feel awkward and then they end up looking foolish. I wanted to make this movie.
Read the whole thing at The Daily Beast.
