“I work hard for this-not to come from judgment. It’s the backstage of the sex industry,” Heymann notes.
It’s the dark side of Hollywood, in some way. “It’s the opposite of Hollywood, this movie. Despite this apparent insight into himself, Agassi at that stage had never reflected on what compelled him to do porn, and then later to nearly disintegrate into drug addiction. “ is a character that takes over me whenever I need his help,” he says in the documentary. Really what he was doing was adopting an alter ego. In the film, Agassi explains that he felt his surname sounded too ordinary, so he chose something more exotic as his nom de porn. I just need to talk to you about something completely different from what you think.’ And I said, ‘Okay, no problem.’ I went and I got dressed.” ‘How do you pay? And what do you want from me?’ And then he said, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no.
My address is… you should come at this time, I will wait for you,’” Agassi recalls. And this guy that I don’t know sent me a message on Facebook, like, ‘I’ve got an offer for you.’ So I said, ‘Okay, no problem. “I was a porn star and I was doing escorting and everything. In fact, he says when Heymann first contacted him, he assumed it was to engage his sexual services. He supplemented his income by working as an escort. It was that I just wanted to show off.” Jonathan Agassi Lucas Entertainmentīy that point Agassi had become one of the top gay porn stars in the world, signed to an exclusive contract with Lucas Entertainment, a big industry player. “I’m this Jewish gay guy from Tel Aviv–not even from Tel Aviv but somewhere near Tel Aviv. “The main reason that I wanted to do this film at the beginning was to show everybody how beautiful my life is and how successful I am,” he recalls. When Heymann approached him about the documentary project, Agassi seems to have viewed the idea as something of a lark. And I did it and I never understood why I’m so open with my sexuality.”
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“’Yes, of course I do!’ I was 17 or 18, when I was shooting for the first time, full naked, for the biggest gay magazine in Israel. “’You want to shoot naked?’” he remembers the photographer asking him. Even before he was out of his teens he says he had embraced his exhibitionist side, beginning with a nude photo spread for an Israeli publication. He recalls being teased as a boy for looking feminine, but he accepted his sexual identity. A young Yonatan Langer with his mom, Anna Langer Courtesy of Langer FamilyĪgassi, who is in his late 30s now, was born Yonatan Langer in Brooklyn, and grew up in Holon, outside Tel Aviv. It explores the downward spiral of a man ostensibly on top of the world, but whose craving for a kind of adulation masks deep wounds and unresolved trauma. It’s a film of startling intimacy-not so much sexual, but psychological intimacy. And I was curious to find out what that gap was.” Heymann adds, “I felt almost from the outset that there has to be some sort of gap between this fantasy that Jonathan represents to millions of people and what is actually happening inside. And for that, I had to go to all that length.” “I had to understand Jonathan and where he comes from and what he does. And that includes his profession and, of course, the tools used to take part in this profession, which is his penis,” Heymann says. “My origin point was that there was just something so powerful about Jonathan, which I wanted to find out about.
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