If you've never seen Orgazmo, you're really missing out on one of the funniest movies of the 90s, and a great send-up of the average person's perception of the porn industry. The film was written, produced, directed by, and starred Trey Parker & Matt Stone, the guys behind South Park, and their introduction to Hollywood was just as cheeky as everything else they've done.
There's always been an urban legend floating around Hollywood that at the very start of their careers, before anyone knew who they were, they had hired porn actors to pretend to be them at this big event that was going to be attended by many of Hollywood's elite. Well, if producer and former porn star Farrell Timlake is to be believed, the story's true, it's just a little different than the one most of us have heard. Vince Mancini over at Filmdrunk (link below) recently talked with Timlake and got the skinny on what really went down.
So (producer Charlie) Wessler, he knew that Trey was working on this Mormon porn guy superhero script and knew that we were shooting porn together, and said, “Come over to my apartment and you guys can shoot some video. I’m going to invite some friends to watch you as you shoot it.” So we showed up and Trey pretended to be Farrell Timlake the ultimate porn producer. And I pretended to be Trey Parker the up-and-coming Hollywood sensation. So then the friends showed up and they turned out to be Carrie Fisher, Richard Dreyfuss, Timothy Hutton, and Buck Henry. And all of them had little entourages with them, so basically it was probably like 25 people in the room, and they set up almost like stadium seating to watch us as we were shooting. And I’m just looking like a little hippie kid, and they’re all coming up to me going, “You’re so talented, you’re going to be the huge sensation,” and I was all Mr Humble, “Oh, thank you very much, I appreciate it.”
Meanwhile Trey’s storming around going, “People. People. I need more ass licking. God damn it! Can I have more ass licking?”
Funny. That would be a funny story if it ended there. It doesn't...
At a certain point, I [still in persona as “Trey Parker” as far as the Hollywood people are concerned] just make like I’m so turned on shooting the action– wait, hold on, I’ll get to that. At one point, I look at Carrie and I say, “God, I got to take a pee. Can you get the shot for me?” She’s like, “Yeah, what should I get?” I’m pushing the camera in her hand like, “Close ups. Just get close ups.” And so she says, “Yeah, okay,” and she jumps into filming.
And at a certain point I [again, still in persona as “Trey Parker” as far as the Hollywood people are concerned] just make like I’m so turned on, like I’m so overcome with how hot the action is that I unzip and drop trou and jump into it [as in having sex with the actress – “humping away” according to some accounts]. And you hear the whole room go, “Ooooh, no,” Like, “his career is over before it even started!”
Timlake goes on to reveal that Timothy Hutton was the only one who got hip to what they were doing, mainly because Richard Dreyfuss was too busy sticking his face in pornstar's asses. The full interview is great, and totally worth your time to read. And again, I feel the need to lobby for you to watch Orgazmo. I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothing, but that movie totally kicks ass!
Via Filmdrunk