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Deen makes his mainstream movie debut in The Canyons, but says hell never leave porn.

new york post Sunday, July 28, 2013

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By REED TUCKER
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who wrote the screenplay for The Canyons. The noir-ish thriller revolves around a violent TS time to shoot the four-way and controlling LA movie producer (Deen) who sex scene, and Lindsay Lohan suspects his girlfriend (Lohan) is having an affair refuses to come out of her room. with the leading man (Nolan Gerard Funk). Director Paul Schrader is behind Deen liked Ellis books and jumped at the closed doors screaming at her. chance to work with him. He was not looking for a You signed the contract, he shot at Hollywood. People talk to me like this is my big crossover to the mainstream. Absolutely bellows. You knew going in that not, he says. I have no desire to leave porn. there would be nude scenes!So Instead, he was excited by Ellis and Schraders get your ass out there and do it! plan to make a movie on the cheap, with low You know its probably not the nancial risk and complete independence. bestomen for your movie when one of the You make that mass-produced, Hollywood competent, diligent and polite people most blockbuster crap, you end up with Michael Bays on the set is the porn star. Transformers 11. Hes garbage, but his movies To adult-lm idol James Deen, however, make lots of money, says Deen, who was interestng The Canyons was a lot easier shooti ed in making a good movie and not bowing to the than making an adult lm. Lohan, he says, capitalist theory of Hollywood. was freaking out because she wasnt Deens porn career began in 2004 and he g the attention she wanted. I gettin has since become one of the industrys rare wasnt really paying attention. male stars, in part for his nonpite Schraders belDes threatening good looks, which g, Lohans tantrum lowin burns throughthreehours have earnedhim a passionate following among young womof pric ey production time, a en. A 2012segment on ABCs movie source tell The Post. Nightline dubbed him Porns Then sh e has an idea. The Boy Next Door. Over the years, crew sho uld strip down to hes been offered a few maintheirunderwearto make her stream projects, including horfeel more co mfortable. This is ror movies and a reality show, oberts and Meg what Julia R but he wants no part of it. set, so why not her? Ryan get on All the scum and stereotypiThe crew justlaughs and cally horrible stories you hear leave. threatens to about entertainment theyre to myself, says key I thought James Deen on all true, he says. Everyone is grip Cole Chetney, Well, Im Hollywood producers sure Julia Roberts is much more scummy, egotistical, weak and pathetic. There are scummy pleasant than you are. Finally, at his wits end, Schrader, 67,who wrote studio-producerpeople you speak to for 30 minTaxi Driver and Raging Bull, takes off all his utes, and you want to gouge your eyes out because clothes, walks nude to the monitor and says, OK, you feel youve been soiled by their horribleness. action! Lohan disrobes and the scene is captured The Canyons was not immune to drama. in one take. Deen enjoyed making the lm but says Schrader It was just another day on the set of The Canplayed Hollywood games. yons, easily the most gossiped-about lm of the Like with me getting the role. Hed say, Well year. It hits theaters and video on demand Friday. we dont know. We might have someone else in Lohan was far from the only controversial memmind. Deen says. Or he said hed make me a ber of the cast. Deen, 27, is a ridiculously prolic star. I dont give a s - - t about being a star. Fame is and popular porn actor who is making his mainuseless and eeting. All being famous does is get stream debut. He got involved at the invitation of people following you into the subway. Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho Deen has only wanted to do one thing since he

Everyone is scummy, egotistical, weak and pathetic.