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Why Simon Rex Thinks People Completely Misunderstand Him · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Simon Rex has somehow
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Speaker 1: successfully navigated an incredibly diverse path as an entertainer over
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Speaker 1: the course of his career. Started out as a model,
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Speaker 1: then transitioned into a loud mouth bj and on TV,
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Speaker 1: then a working TV actor on shows like Felicity, before
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Speaker 1: becoming a brash wild rapper Dirt Nasty most recently is
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Speaker 1: potentially looking at adding Oscar now many to his resume
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Speaker 1: for playing a washed up porn star and the critically
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Speaker 1: acclaimed a Red Rocket, and through all of it, many
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Speaker 1: people have assumed Simon himself is similar to a lot
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Speaker 1: of these wild characters. He's a portray, but he tells
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Speaker 1: g Q, I couldn't be more opposite in real life.
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Speaker 1: I'm the guy who's really self aware of being loud
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Speaker 1: on my phone or hogging up the aisle on the airplane.
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Speaker 1: I'm neurotic. My music fans believed that this persona of
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Speaker 1: Dirt Nasty was real, and they couldn't separate the fact
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Speaker 1: that I'm doing a character. I created these personas I
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Speaker 1: asked for, but people don't really know who I am.
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Speaker 1: I put out so many silly characters over the years
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Speaker 1: that I just always want to reinvent myself. Red Rocket
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Speaker 1: in theaters Friday. That's direct from Hollywood,