I am a sex addict too

Choke came out yesterday. I want to go see it.




Sex-addiction theme of ‘Choke’ holds Rockwell’s interest

Despite the tabloid headlines that surround celebrities treated for sex addiction, Sam Rockwell, who plays such an addict in “Choke,” knows the condition is far from glamorous.

“I did some research,” Rockwell said. He met a sex therapist and “went to some sex-addict meetings, anonymously most of the time,” in New York and Los Angeles.

Unlike alcoholism, “It’s more like an eating disorder because it’s emotional rather than physically addictive,” he discovered.

Rockwell was up for the demands of his role with lots of - simulated - sex. “It was tricky and it was pretty silly stuff,” he said. “Just not erotic at all.”

Known for playing quirky characters such as game-show host and alleged CIA agent Chuck Barris in “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” and wily Charley Ford in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” Rockwell calls his character Victor “a comedic Hamlet.”

“Choke” is, he said, “kind of the comedic psychoanalysis of a Casanova. We find out what it is really like to be a Casanova instead of glamorizing it. If you meet a real ladies man, they’re usually not incredibly good-looking guys. They’re usually pretty empty inside. That’s because this kind of thing is fun for a while and then it turns into an empty pit.

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