The making of it is the bigger part,” West said. “To me, the movie was more about making porn than it was porn. “It was behind the register, and it was always this weird, awkward moment where I was like, ‘Hey, can I see that right there?’ ‘Oh, this?’ ‘Yeah, just put it in the brown bag.'” I used to get porn when I would cash my check when I was 18, 19,” said Cudi, who plays Jackson Hole. “I didn’t have to do too much for this movie.”
“I did most of my research in my late teens,” laughed Henderson, who plays Wayne. Actors Kid Cudi, Brittany Snow and Martin Henderson, and writer-director West appeared at Variety‘s SXSW Studio to talk through the process of writing all things sexy and gory. To nail the visuals and performances of a ’70s porn shoot, the cast and crew had to do varying degrees of preparation. “X,” Ti West’s retro slasher film for A24, follows a small, amateur film crew into rural Texas as they set out to make an adult film.
