Quickly realizing his value, Lockhart immediately demands a higher fee, leading to an ugly fallout. Lockhart is young (he’s 17 at the outset of Kelly’s film, lying to Stephen that he’s 18) but, according to the film, no fool. But as Lockhart’s star begins to rise, he grows more predatory, deluding himself that the pair are lovers. “They are going to love you,” says Stephen (Christian Slater), the man who runs the lucrative empire out of his suburban home.Īt first Stephen appears harmless, visibly enamored with his young new talent. Introducing himself as Brent Corrigan, Lockhart proceeds to masturbate on camera. Lewandowski tells the story of Jonathan, a 24-year-old who lives and takes care of his father, a cancer patient in his last days. Teen Beach Movie star Garrett Clayton makes a radical shift to very adult-orientated fare as the tanned and taut Sean Paul Lockhart, who at the outset of Kelly’s film is seen on grainy digital footage, auditioning for Cobra Video, the amateur gay porn company that would soon go on to make him famous. Jonathan (2016, Germany) This 2016 German movie by Polish director Piotr J. King Cobra finds Franco in supporting mode, in service of a ripped-from-the-headlines drama covering the crazy tale behind the early rise of gay porn star Brent Corrigan. The story follows a gay black man, Chiron, through three stages of his early life, along with his struggles with self. In I Am Michael, Franco played a gay activist who declared himself straight after becoming religious. Moonlight is one of the years best films, LGBT or otherwise.
