IFC made our week when it announced it had acquired distribution rights to King Cobra, the true-crime porn drama starring James Franco about the the murder of Cobra Video founder Bryan Kocis in 2007, bringing it one step closer to our bedroom screens.
Yet the man of the hour, real-life Kocis protégé and you-could-say-the-reason-he-got-murdered, Brent Corrigan, sat out the preem and disavowed the movie, blasting producers for “bastardizing my early years in porn.”
Which we can understand. These days, the 29-year old super-bttm is horse-ranching in New Mexico and flashing Twitter.” So in honor of his place in the world, and so that it not be forgotten, we put together a mini bio of the man and the legend.
Here’s how he got there, in 5 stages of Sean:
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1. Underage
At 17, Corrigan, given name Sean Paul Lockhart, heard the siren call that is the thump-thump of West Hollywood and started making regular trips from home in San Diego, fake ID in hand. Before long, he was introduced to Kocis via webcam audition.
Cobra Video was about “Capturing the Erotic Essence of Youth” in barely-legal bareback vids, and the soon-to-be-known-as Corrigan was a Kocis dream come true, one more in a line of underage boy-models seduced by the then-44 year old.
In short order, Corrigan starred in Cobra’s Every Poolboy’s Dream, Schoolboy Crush, Bareboned Twinks (!) and Casting Couch 4. While Kocis thought he had both a boyfriend and a cash-cow under contract, his star saw it differently; now 18, Corrigan got a lawyer and outed himself as underage at the time his first films were shot.
Two years later, Kocis would be dead in a bizarre plot to cast Corrigan in a rival company’s “million-dollar porn,” the subject of director Justin Kelly’s King Cobra. After slashing his throat and stabbing him 28 times, his killers set the house on fire; Kocis’ erotic essence was up in smoke. Corrigan was not involved in the murder plot, but it somehow added to his legend.
2. Wet Dream
In the meantime, Corrigan became wet dream passivo in (some favorite) titles like The Porne Ultimatum, Getting Levi’s Johnson, Brent Corrigan’s Heat, Gay Massage House, Jacked. He was the adorable but naughty boy-next-door: a smile that said, yes, you. Brent was attainable.
The industry liked him, too. Among the accolades: a Golden Dickie in 2008 for Best Twink Performer, Bottom; GayVN Awards, 2009 Best Bottom, 2009 Best Pro/Am Film for Summit, 2009 Best Twink Film for Just the Sex 1 & 2, 2010 Best Bottom, 2010 Web Performer of the Year and 2010 Best Amateur/Pro-Am for The Big Easy.
3. Behind Behind the Camera
Because Hollywood, it wasn’t long before the actor turned not-so-great director. In titles like Brent Corrigan’s Working Hard, it’s kind of clear he wasn’t. This stage could also be called denial.
4. Crossing Over
Also because Hollywood, Corrigan took a stab at legit films, appearing in a dozen or so indies. Despite undeniable screen presence, when he’s naked but also clothed, Corrigan’s appeal hasn’t translated to the big screen so far.
5. Swallow It
#BarefootAndBareback in #NewMexico on #QuarterHorse #SalvadoraDalí last night. #ShirtlessHorseman #feet #gay #stud pic.twitter.com/3Mup9TnwmD
— Brent Corrigan (@BrentCorrigan) July 12, 2016
As the popular performer transitions, quite nicely, from twink to twank, Corrigan is all about a different kind of spread, the one he’s got near the Rio Grande in New Mexico with his bf and their dogs. He’s also just finished a memoir with the cute title Incorrigible (his “true story”), and although he hasn’t made a movie in a while, he does stay porn-relevant with a very activo Twitter feed, worth a visit for affirmations like: “I am happier and healthier than – very truly – ever in my entire life!”
That plus all those pics. He’s still got it.
Juanjo
I have seen his efforts in non-porn movies. He has some talent. He isn’t likely to pick up in Oscars but he does know his way around the stage and is able to turn in a decent performance, not all that easy to do.
Bob LaBlah
“As the popular performer transitions, quite nicely, from twink to twank, Corrigan is all about a different kind of spread, the one he’s got near the Rio Grande in New Mexico with his bf and their dogs.”
Wow! I wonder how much soul searching did it take for the author to not follow his first mind and say skank instead of twank (whatever the hell thats suppose to mean beats the shit out of me). This poor “twank” went from $25k per scene down to literally shoveling horse shit on a property he probably isn’t the registered owner of? So much for the resale value of his now aged and well used butt hole. As they say, all that “glitters” many times proves not to be gold.
Josh447
He’s got the “it boy” markers. I like watching him grow up. It’s very cool he’s found love. I think he will always be relevant if he wants to be.
Josh447
Bob Lablah,
Bitter much?
Bob LaBlah
@Josh447: Not bitter at all. Once again I find his post-porn off-screen antics just as entertaining as his EARLIER onscreen antics.
I think it was back in January or February he made an attempt at a porn comeback in a video that went strait to the free gaytube sites. After thirty seconds or so it simply looked to pathetic, regardless of the fact that it was bareback, something he vowed to never do again. His situation is pretty pathetic. I hope he saved his money because I just can’t see him feeling and accepting the reality of a 9-5 job. That would make girl feel more like a peasant than the relevant queen HE seems to think he is.
Stache
@Bob LaBlah: His “shoveling horse shit” is only a hobby. If his BF has a ranch it’s my guess he has himself a sugar daddy.
Stache
Ah the golden days of porn when you could still talk about a million or even $25,000. If only this happened today Kocis would still be alive!
Bob LaBlah
@Stache: You might want to read the book Cobra Killer. What I found interesting (and sad) was this: the two guys who killed Kochis already had a thriving porn website themselves. There was no other reason other than just outright greed as to why they did what they did. Greed and drugs do warp the mind after so long and they proved no exception. They are never going to to WALK out of prison. In the state of Pennsylvania, life means just that, the rest of your LIFE behind bars.
I noticed absent from that list in this article was how Lucas went of of him at that award show in SF a few years back. He reduced the poor little skank to tears. There are many people out there who know and have seen this “kids” darker side. By the way, those of you who are ready to take the side of this “victim”, have you noticed what (types) he has never performed or even been photographed with? Not even at a GVN awards show.
Stache
@Bob LaBlah: I’ll have to read it. I love stories with happy endings. One dead Pedo and two Killers in Prison.
Terrycloth
I don’t know .the older he gets the less I’m liking him.
dean089
I followed him on Twitter for a couple years and, besides all the horse pics, there was lots of “Me, me, me!” with an added dash of “Why me?” whining. I can get that from the fading beauties at the bar, no need to read it in my daily Twitter feed.
Lazycrockett
He has been active lately on chaturbate.
martinbakman
Was he smoking a doobie in the horseback vid?
lykeitiz
Say what you will, but after what could have been a life-ending trauma for a weaker twink, this one went on to become the youngest porn producer in history due to his internet savvy. Combine that with his indie films, regardless of their varying degrees of success, and you have a survivor. What other porn twink, or hunk, has had his level of success…….on their own?
We’re still talking about him, and so is James Franco. Do you think Molly Ringwald will be in the Ryan Rose story?
billjones
Who?
Sluggo2007
People think he’s good looking? I’ve seen better faces on poison bottles!
bottom250
Thank you for allowing me to enjoy myself my times.
JessPH
I like him and his videos more now than when he was a twink.
Bob LaBlah
@lykeitiz: “What other porn twink, or hunk, has had his level of success…….on their own?”
His name is Brent Everett. He was in several scenes with Corrigan. He went back home to Canada and started a very successful porn site and is VERY well off. He even married his screen lover.