Simon Rex was, admittedly, in want of some severe money when a number of tabloids in the UK wished him to say that he had slept with Meghan Markle, a co-star on a March 2005 episode of the UPN sitcom Cuts. No, it by no means occurred — though they went to lunch as soon as, as pals — however the tabs have been keen to provide him $70,000 to say that it did.
“I used to be broke as f***! I actually wanted the cash,” Rex informed The Guardian in an interview revealed Friday. “However I will be on meals stamps earlier than I do this.”
Rex stated that Markle thanked him in a letter, which he framed and retains at his dwelling in Joshua Tree in Southern California.
“She stated: ‘It is good to know there are nonetheless good folks,” Rex stated.
Whereas selling the U.Okay. launch of his critically lauded film Purple Rocket, the actor, rapper and former MTV VJ dished on his decades-long profession within the leisure trade, which has included a number of motion pictures within the Scary Film franchise and comparable fare. He stated he all the time thought he might do extra, one thing just like the dramedy that is earned him accolades galore and requires high-profile new tasks, however not everybody agreed.
When he auditioned for director Gus Van Sant for the 1997 film Good Will Searching, for instance, it did not go so properly.
“I’m going in and sit down with him and Matt Damon,” Rex stated. “We’re doing a studying after which Gus stops me within the center and says: ‘Simon, that is actually unhealthy, you are not prepared.’ Matt Damon is laughing and I am embarrassed. Gus says: ‘However don’t fret, you have got one thing. Belief me. Go to appearing college.'”
Rex additionally talked in regards to the time that he joined his Scary Film 3 co-star Charlie Sheen on his 2011 tour, My Violent Torpedo of Fact, which adopted Sheen’s “tiger blood” interval.
“That was a bizarre one, man. That was a f***ing circus,” Rex stated. “[Sheen] was up on stage each night time speaking s***. Then a professional baseball participant would come on and play catch with him, then I might do a Dust Nasty track. It was a shitshow.”
He additionally remembered that they traveled in every single place by personal jet and the lodging have been first-class.
“Charlie would inform me: ‘Order every part on the menu. Lobster, steak, no matter. Use the spa day-after-day, get a facial, get a therapeutic massage.’ I stated: ‘I do not wanna waste your cash,'” Rex recalled. “He stated: ‘Simon, I make extra in someday of Two and a Half Males reruns than you might probably think about. Spend all of it.'”
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