{"id":621926,"date":"2026-08-05T14:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/621926\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:44:21","slug":"cooper-hoffman-interview-on-i-want-your-sex-artificial-his-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/621926\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Hoffman Interview on \u2018I Want Your Sex\u2019, \u2018Artificial&#8217; &#038; His Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the summer of 2021, a year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/cooper-hoffman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cooper-hoffman_1\" data-tag=\"cooper-hoffman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Hoffman<\/a> finished filming Licorice Pizza \u2014 the movie that would make him a movie star practically overnight \u2014 he was on the set of Steven Spielberg\u2019s The Fabelmans, working one of the lowest jobs on the crew\u2019s hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHis official title was COVID production assistant, which meant that he sat at a folding table, clipboard in hand, checking in the cast and crew as they arrived for their daily nasal swabs. Hoffman had been dispatched to the production by Licorice Pizza director Paul Thomas Anderson, who knew about the attention, praise and potential for ego inflation that would come when that film hit theaters in a few short months. \u201cHe told me, \u2018You\u2019ve seen how this side lives, now you have to see the other side,\u2019 \u201d says Hoffman. Though Anderson has been minting young talent for decades, this young actor was different: His father is the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, PTA\u2019s close friend and longtime collaborator, whose 2014 death devastated the filmmaking world.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/14cov_CooperHoffman_social.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"435\" width=\"336\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMyles Hendrik<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat made his stint as a PA, a job that would typically be anonymous, different too. When Spielberg caught wind of Hoffman\u2019s presence on set, his reaction was, according to Hoffman, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t I know about this?\u201d An introduction was quickly arranged. \u201cIt was like meeting the president,\u201d Hoffman says with his boisterous laugh. \u201cI stood there with the first AD and a security guard, and they were like, \u2018Steven\u2019s approaching.\u2019 He\u2019s 20 feet away, and I can see him walking up. We had maybe a five-minute conversation, but he was lovely and was like, \u2018I\u2019m so happy that I got to meet you; Licorice Pizza was fantastic.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tUnsurprisingly for an actor who entered the industry in the shadow of his famous father, after his debut, Hoffman gravitated toward projects that offered some form of familiarity. He took a part in Wildcat, a passion project from Ethan Hawke, who was a member of his father\u2019s LAByrinth Theater Company, that also starred Hawke\u2019s daughter Maya, a childhood friend. He joined the ensemble of Saturday Night, overseen by Jason Reitman, who also grew up in the industry. He did The Long Walk, directed by Francis Lawrence, the last person to work with his father (on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt felt good to be under the tutelage of Philip\u2019s inner circle, working with people who really cared. \u201cEvery male actor over 40 wants to be his mentor,\u201d says Andrew Garfield. \u201cI\u2019m one of those people! It\u2019s because we love him and we love his dad. And Cooper laughs about it, like, \u2018Yeah, get in line behind Daniel Day-Lewis, buddy, he wants to be my mentor, too.\u2019 \u201d He didn\u2019t worry about differentiating himself from his father because he\u2019s proud of his legacy and is also smart enough to know that any similarities \u2014 his gregariousness, his physicality, his vulnerability \u2014 are a strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut now, at 23, Hoffman is ready to get uncomfortable \u2014 branching beyond the safety net of his father\u2019s inner circle and taking on roles in two of the year\u2019s most provocative films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe stars in punk filmmaker Gregg Araki\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/i-want-your-sex\/\" id=\"auto-tag_i-want-your-sex_1\" data-tag=\"i-want-your-sex\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I Want Your Sex<\/a>, a boundary-pushing and explicit comedy about a young intern who enters a dom-sub relationship with his famous artist boss (played by Olivia Wilde). He\u2019d never even filmed a sex scene before joining the indie, which sees him in bondage, having a threesome, pegging and masturbating onscreen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLuca Guadagnino\u2019s highly anticipated OpenAI expos\u00e9 Artificial will follow. The movie traces the tumultuous period in which ChatGPT founder Sam Altman was fired and rehired in a matter of days; Hoffman plays a \u201clittle henchman\u201d to Garfield\u2019s Altman, and though he isn\u2019t allowed to reveal much about the plot, he says Guadagnino told him to play the part \u201cas though your character would leave his wife for Altman.\u201d The movie apparently struck too close to home for Amazon, its original distributor, which dropped the film just months after making a $50 million investment in OpenAI. Neon has since acquired it and plans to release it later in 2026, positioning the film for an awards campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter Hoffman saw an early cut of I Want Your Sex for the first time, and with the liquid courage of a post-screening martini, he decided that he was both really proud of what he\u2019d done and really excited for people to see it. And then he got to Sundance, where the film had its premiere. \u201cI was like, \u2018Oh my God, I actually can\u2019t believe this theater is going to watch this,\u2019 \u201d he says. \u201cAnd it got to the scene of me masturbating, and all I could think was, \u2018Please shut it off. Please shut it off.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWith the benefit of time, he\u2019s back to being excited \u2014 enough for the press-shy actor to sit for this, his first big cover story. We\u2019re at Cafe Medina in Vancouver, where he\u2019s filming the lead in a Hulu pilot about a washed-up snowboarder pulled into a criminal underworld. He\u2019s still getting used to the day-to-day realities of shooting away from home, away from his things (he\u2019s very particular about lighting, so he really misses his lamps) and away from his people. \u201cBack in New York, I have my mom and my friends, and if some shit went down, I\u2019d always have someone to call,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSitting outside, we see the street celebrations erupt when Canada wins its World Cup knockout round game against South Africa. The citywide jubilation exacerbates his homesickness: It reminds him that he missed the ticker-tape parade celebrating the Knicks\u2019 NBA championship. Hoffman has been a lifelong fan thanks to growing up in Manhattan and the influence of his father. He made it to one game of the Finals (with friend and fellow actor Dylan O\u2019Brien), but it was the one that the Knicks lost, which he blames on President Trump\u2019s appearance. \u201cI truly was like, \u2018Get the fuck out of MSG \u2014you\u2019re making this miserable for everybody.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe had to watch the rest, including the historic final game, alone on his phone in the middle of the night while he was in London for his girlfriend\u2019s sister\u2019s wedding. \u201cI grew up going to games with my dad, and it was a big part of our relationship, so I always knew that if they won, I would have a multifaceted feeling about it,\u201d he says. \u201cI love this team, I\u2019ve had the privilege of meeting a few of them, and this is a thing I\u2019ve wanted for 23 years. I was sad not to be in New York celebrating with my city, but the only person I really wanted to be celebrating with was my dad. I just feel like it\u2019s such a shame my dad didn\u2019t get to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Issue-14-Hoffman-Shoot-Embed-4-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1579\" width=\"1047\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tMM6 Maison Margiela coat, shirt; Carhartt pants; Hoffman\u2019s<br \/>jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Myles Hendrik<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHoffman grew up in the West Village, the oldest child to Philip and Mimi O\u2019Donnell, a prominent figure in New York\u2019s theater scene and the former artistic director of LAByrinth. (Despite all the acclaimed actors clamoring to give Hoffman advice, it is his mother\u2019s opinion that he says he holds in highest regard.) He went to public school through eighth grade and spent his days running around the island \u2014 playing pickup basketball near the Hudson River, eating BLTs at La Bonbonniere (a diner haunt of his father\u2019s and Ethan Hawke\u2019s) and going to art house movie theaters. His grades were bad, and he didn\u2019t have much academic or career ambition, so when it came time to apply to high school, choices were limited. He wound up at the Harbor School, a marine biology-focused campus on Governors Island. After taking the ferry to first period, he\u2019d watch his fellow students harvest clams and mussels from the Hudson River with fervor, wondering what he was doing there. Eventually, Day-Lewis stepped in and got Hoffman a spot at Calhoun School, a private arts-focused school on the Upper West Side that his son attended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAt Calhoun, Hoffman\u2019s last name didn\u2019t mean much. His father had been a true Hollywood force, a four-time Oscar nominee \u2014 for Charlie Wilson\u2019s War, Doubt, The Master and Capote, for which he won best actor \u2014 and was admired offscreen, but at school, Hoffman was in a cohort of people with more money than is fathomable. Besides, high school fame operated on a different currency. \u201cNew York has these kid celebrities, guys everyone knows, but for no other reason than they sold drugs or had sex earlier than everyone,\u201d he recalls with a laugh. He and his friends all got fake IDs, the expensive kind that actually work, and started going out to East Village bars like Niagara and Pianos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLife also revolved around going to set. The family had a rule about not going longer than a few weeks without being together, so they would often travel to his father\u2019s productions. \u201cI hated my dad\u2019s job because I was always like, \u2018Why are you going away for three months?\u2019 \u201d Hoffman was only 10 when his dad died, so Anderson stepped in to provide emotional support. (He was \u201cUncle Paul.\u201d) He nurtured the younger Hoffman\u2019s interest in film, directing home movies with Cooper and his own kids and bringing him to his sets. \u201cThe one I remember most is Phantom Thread,\u201d Hoffman says. \u201cMy family stayed for three weeks, and I would watch Paul work pretty much every day. I was like, \u2018Wait, you just get to bring a bunch of people that you like together and make something?\u2019 I could finally see why my dad was doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Issue-14-Hoffman-Andrew-Garfield-Embed-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"698\" width=\"1047\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWith his soon-to-be Artificial co-star Andrew Garfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Kovac\/Getty Images for AFI<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhen Anderson started making his next movie, he didn\u2019t intend to cast Hoffman. He auditioned dozens of young actors and put many of them on tape with co-star Alana Haim, but nothing ever felt right (Anderson has said in the past that he realized he needed a novice in the role). Hoffman, who was 15 at the time, had never acted professionally before, but he had the on-set exposure, the time in front of Anderson\u2019s home camera and the genes. As he remembers it, he had no idea what he was doing. \u201cI fully thought we were going to be shooting on an iPhone, I swear to God,\u201d he says with a laugh. \u201cI just couldn\u2019t wrap my head around it. I couldn\u2019t process: We\u2019re shooting on film, Sean Penn is going to be in this movie, I\u2019m filming with Bradley Cooper. And I\u2019m the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe specifics of the environment helped. He had Anderson to guide him, of course (\u201cWith a new boundary in place because he was my boss now and it\u2019s not like us getting dinner\u201d), but they also shot during COVID with a very tight set. Hoffman, along with his mother and two younger sisters, lived three houses down from Anderson and his partner, Maya Rudolph, during the production. He didn\u2019t have to think about what this film might mean to the outside world because, then, there was no outside world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI thought I knew about fame,\u201d he says. \u201cI was surrounded by it for so long. I saw what my dad and his movies meant to the world. I saw the darker side, too, with people hiding behind trash cans to get a photo. Or the even darker side than that, which is you\u2019re at his funeral and you walk out to 200 photographers. But people didn\u2019t care about me, they cared about him. Then, I\u2019m 17 years old and the movie comes out and it\u2019s all on me. People want to take photos of me. They want to talk to me. But I don\u2019t know what the fuck I think about things, I\u2019m only 17 and I\u2019ve done one single movie. Paul held my hand the whole way through. I didn\u2019t know who I was as an actor or a person yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Issue-14-Hoffman-PSH-Embed-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"981\" width=\"1047\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCooper grew up going to Knicks games with his father. \u201cThe only person I really wanted to be celebrating [their 2026 championship was] with was my dad,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJames Devaney\/Filmmagic<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHoffman had what he describes as a \u201cmassive crash\u201d after the press and awards cycle of Licorice Pizza ended. All of his friends were going off to college, and he was still trying to process the past year and a half. Most young actors would be focused on capitalizing on their big break, thinking about how the role could launch their career. \u201cBecause I grew up the way I did, surrounded by film, with an Oscar in my house, the idea of what it would do for me was never something that I thought about.\u201d But luckily, he had those mentors. Most of the advice was about patience, waiting to say yes to things that he felt good about. He did Reitman\u2019s reenactment of the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live because of the opportunity to work with a host of young actors \u2014 O\u2019Brien, Rachel Sennott and Gabriel LaBelle, whom he\u2019d met while checking him in for his COVID test on The Fabelmans. The Long Walk, a dystopian story based on a 1979 Stephen King novel about a group of men walking 15 miles per day under the threat of death, offered the same experience of on-set camaraderie (he\u2019s already collaborated a second time with co-star David Jonsson, on the upcoming The Chaperones, from indie director India Donaldson).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe one thing that he doesn\u2019t do is presume. Despite Anderson casting a few of his Licorice Pizza co-stars for One Battle After Another, Hoffman makes it a point not to harass the director. \u201cCan you imagine if I texted him, like, \u2018Part for Coop?\u2019 You don\u2019t do that to Paul.\u201d During the filming of The Long Walk, Lawrence was starting work on the Hunger Games prequel, which would feature a young Plutarch Heavensbee, the part previously inhabited by Hoffman\u2019s father. The two had never gotten a chance to meet until they came together for The Long Walk, and Hoffman says that hearing nice things about his dad from Lawrence was a lovely addition to a shoot that was otherwise focused on their grueling task at hand (the actors logged all the mileage themselves, without stunt doubles). \u201cI will say that meeting Cooper the first time [for my film] was very powerful,\u201d says Lawrence. \u201cTo see, and feel, the similarities they both have, it made me emotional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI love to work with people over and over, and Cooper is high on that list, but we needed someone who felt considerably older than Cooper is,\u201d says Lawrence of not casting him as the young Plutarch.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Issue-14-Hoffman-Shoot-Embed-3-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"694\" width=\"1047\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tPaul Smith suit, shirt, tie; Hoffman\u2019s jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Myles Hendrik<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGregg Araki first started trying to make I Want Your Sex nearly two decades ago. The script originally featured a relationship between a male dom boss and his female sub, but after the #MeToo movement, he decided it needed a gender swap. \u201cI don\u2019t want to kink-shame anybody, but I really didn\u2019t want to have a woman getting dragged around by the hair. Even if it is consensual.\u201d When the financing finally came in, he cast Wilde first and then set about trying to find someone who could be an \u201cequal sparring partner.\u201d Casting saw Hoffman\u2019s self-tape and floated his name. \u201cI was like, the kid from Licorice Pizza? What the fuck? I don\u2019t want to see [Olivia] fucking that kid.\u201d Chase Sui Wonders, who plays Hoffman\u2019s roommate in the film and shares a pivotal threesome scene with him and Wilde, thought something similar. \u201cI was more like, \u2018Aw, that kid seems like such a precocious guy,\u2019 \u201d she says. \u201cBut then we started hanging out, and he\u2019s a very old soul. We\u2019ve become good friends, and every time I\u2019m with him and his group of friends, I\u2019m like, \u2018Wait, I\u2019m with a group of underage kids?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA lot of young actors were passing on Araki\u2019s project because they didn\u2019t want to play a sub and, as the director puts it, were wary of the more \u201cunmanly\u201d elements the role came with. \u201cThey weren\u2019t secure enough to do it,\u201d he says. Hoffman wasn\u2019t worried about that part and was excited about the nerves he felt when reading the script. He flew himself out to L.A. to do an in-person chemistry read with Wilde. \u201cThat cinched it for me,\u201d Araki says. \u201cHe\u2019s so young, but he has a lot of gravitas. It reminded me of the way Brady Corbet was; he was 15 when we made Mysterious Skin, but he talked like a 30-year-old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe first day on set called for Hoffman to be spanked repeatedly, and day two\u2019s scene was the aforementioned threesome. It turned into a crackup. \u201cThere was this very talented, respectful sound guy who had to hold the boom above us, and my whole chest was exposed and I was getting back into my garments and he was making conversation with us while staring up at the ceiling,\u201d recalls Wonders. \u201cThat was my first day meeting Cooper, and we could not stop laughing about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLater, Hoffman had to simulate bad, awkward sex with his onscreen girlfriend, played by Charli XCX. \u201cThe first time I ever met her, I was like 19 years old and shit-faced at a music festival, so when I found out she was doing this role, the first thing I said during our call was, \u2018I\u2019m sorry,\u2019 \u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cHe was with a friend who was also shit-faced and quite annoying, but luckily Cooper himself was very funny and charming enough to outweigh his friend\u2019s vibes!\u201d the singer recalls. \u201cWe got on. He was cheeky and a good hang, and I was always hoping to cross paths with him in the future.\u201d When Araki approached her to join I Want Your Sex, she was impressed to hear that Hoffman was taking the risks the role required: \u201cHe really goes there in the film, and he\u2019s doing things that a lot of actors wouldn\u2019t dare to do. I just think he\u2019s fearless and fabulous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Issue-14-Hoffman-Shoot-Embed-1-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"694\" width=\"1047\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGrooming: Kerrie Urban. Fashion Assistant: Elliott Pearson. Coach suit; Vowels shirt; Hoffman\u2019s jewelry;<br \/>Adidas sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Myles Hendrik<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe invited the cast to the L.A. stop of the BRAT Tour, which took place the night before she started work on the movie, and earlier this summer Hoffman and a friend went to a party she threw. \u201cIt is kind of hilarious,\u201d he says of the fact that he can \u2014 sort of \u2014 call her a friend. \u201cBut she\u2019s super chill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI Want Your Sex was meant to be bookended pretty tightly with Hoffman\u2019s roles in both Artificial and Poetic License, Maude Apatow\u2019s directorial debut in which her mother, Leslie Mann, audits a college class and develops an inappropriate (but lighthearted) friendship with two students \u2014 Hoffman\u2019s first straight comedy. Hoffman met his girlfriend, actress Nico Parker, on set. \u201cBut, we didn\u2019t officially start dating until a few weeks after filming, when she came to New York to meet my mom, and I asked her to be my girlfriend,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was very sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Issue-14-Hoffman-I-Want-Your-Sex-Embed-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"566\" width=\"1047\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tIn I Want Your Sex, Hoffman surrenders himself as the sexual submissive to his boss, a dominant art world provocateur played by Olivia Wilde.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Magnolia Pictures<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPoetic License premiered at last year\u2019s Toronto International Film Festival, eventually getting snapped up by the nascent Row K distribution company after a bidding war. Then Row K, and its financing, began to disintegrate. Hoffman started to notice something was off when the group traveled to the South by Southwest premiere. \u201cThey told us Row K isn\u2019t paying for an afterparty, so we had to get Baskin-Robbins to sponsor it,\u201d he says. \u201cWe ate ice cream cake. In the back of my mind, I was like, \u2018This is weird.\u2019 And then we found out a week later that Row K didn\u2019t have any money.\u201d (Sony Pictures Classics has since acquired the film, and is aiming for a 2027 release). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhen Artificial was dropped by Amazon and it looked like there was a chance it might never see the light of day, the first thing Hoffman felt was \u2026 relief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe never auditioned for the film; he\u2019d read for a different Guadagnino project that fell apart. Later, he got a call saying that Guadagnino was going to take on OpenAI and wanted Hoffman to play Greg Brockman, a software engineer who served as its president before briefly quitting in solidarity when Altman was fired. Hoffman said yes immediately \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s Luca, you say yes\u201d \u2014 and was eager to engage with the conversation around AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve never used it, and I hate it so much. I hate that it feels like the end of the world. I do like my phone, but I want to talk to a real person. If I\u2019m making a reservation, I will only call the restaurant, and if I can\u2019t, I go to a different restaurant.\u201d But then he found himself struggling to find both the character and his confidence on set, mostly because of the way he looks \u2014 with a shaved head and black hair. \u201cIt got dropped, and I was like, \u2018OK, maybe this never needs to come out.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGarfield disagrees. \u201cHe\u2019s like a bull in a china shop in this film; there\u2019s a brashness and a brutishness that he found for the character that I really love. And it\u2019s different than his usual style, but it felt lived-in, and I thought he looked fantastic. Very close to the real person he\u2019s playing, too.\u201d (Wonders also has seen some of Hoffman\u2019s footage and agrees: \u201cThe perfect tech bro.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHoffman says he has felt this a little bit with every film \u2014 that the second he wraps and his job is done, he often doesn\u2019t want to think about his performance again. \u201cBig K.R.I.T. has a line in the song \u20181Train\u2019 that goes, \u2018Most rappers hopin\u2019 the world end so they won\u2019t have to drop another album.\u2019 That\u2019s how I feel about movies sometimes.\u201d But until that happens, Hollywood is going to keep calling. And he\u2019s going to keep answering.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Issue-14-Hoffman-Shoot-Embed-2-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"694\" width=\"1047\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tDior sweater, pants, shoes; Iguana vintage shirt; Hoffman\u2019s jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Myles Hendrik<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThis story appeared in the Aug. 5 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriptions.hollywoodreporter.com\/site\/thr-subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the summer of 2021, a year after Cooper Hoffman finished filming Licorice Pizza \u2014 the movie that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,37210,18,117,121706,19,17,125772,69553],"class_list":["post-621926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-cooper-hoffman","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-i-want-your-sex","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-thr-cover-story","tag-thr-original-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117043440414843594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}