With her breakout role as Strawberry in Sean Baker’s 'Red Rocket,' newcomer Suzanna Son has suddenly found herself being declared the Next Big Thing.
Simon Rex plays an adult entertainer trying to get back on his feet in this latest lower-depths odyssey from the writer-director of ‘Tangerine’ and ‘The Florida Project.’
Suzanna Son waited two years before she got the call to audition for Strawberry in A24’s “Red Rocket.” Son’s first day on set involved shooting the film’s most intimate scenes, in which Strawberry has sex with Saber — who harbors visions of turning her into a porn star — and performs an emotionally raw rendition of ’N Sync’s “Bye Bye Bye” while naked. “You could tell Suzy was nervous,” Rex said. “But as soon as it was ‘lights, camera, action,’ she relaxed and nailed it every time. I was like, ‘Where the f— did that come from?’ I just knew she was a star. She just had that thing.
“The movie is there paused on my breasts, staring at me,” she said. “I threw up on the carpet and kept watching, man. That tells you how much I needed to see it.”Five days later, Son was on the red carpet in Cannes for the film’s premiere in a cast. “It was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is the moment this movie is being unveiled to the world, and I’m in a wheelchair with a broken foot, taking pain medicine that made me feel very unwell and vomit-y,’” she said.
While 17 is the legal age of consent in Texas — and Son herself was in her mid-20s when shooting “Red Rocket” — some viewers are bound to find the film’s depiction of a sexual relationship between a middle-aged former porn actor and a high schooler, even one as self-assured and whip-smart as Strawberry, inherently distasteful.
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