Cooper Hoffman Takes 2 Provocative Film Roles in I Want Your Sex and Artificial
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Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Aug 5
Cooper Hoffman Takes 2 Provocative Film Roles in I Want Your Sex and Artificial
3 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Aug 5
Summary
At 23, Cooper Hoffman says he is moving beyond the filmmakers around his late father and into riskier work with Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex” and Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial.”
“I Want Your Sex” pushes that shift furthest: Hoffman plays an intern in a dom-sub relationship with Olivia Wilde’s artist character, appearing in explicit scenes including bondage, a threesome and masturbation.
“Artificial” casts him as Greg Brockman opposite Andrew Garfield’s Sam Altman in a drama about Altman’s firing and return at OpenAI; Amazon dropped the film after investing $50 million in OpenAI, and Neon later acquired it.
Hoffman said the bolder choices follow a cautious start after “Licorice Pizza,” when Paul Thomas Anderson even sent him to work as a COVID production assistant on “The Fabelmans” to keep him grounded.
The new roles, along with a Hulu pilot now shooting in Vancouver, mark a broader transition from protected early projects into a more independent phase of his career.