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Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler
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The film is an expansion of Anderson's mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), and stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Heather Graham.
- Garin Pirnia
- WAHLBERG INITIALLY DIDN’T WANT TO BE IN THE MOVIE, BECAUSE OF SHOWGIRLS. At this stage in Mark Wahlberg’s career, he had a hit song under the name Marky Mark, had done The Basketball Diaries—which is how Anderson discovered him—and was basically an underwear model.
- BURT REYNOLDS DISLIKED PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON AND THE MOVIE. It’s no secret the pair didn’t get along on set. Reynolds, who played porn filmmaker Jack Horner, recently told GQ why their personalities clashed.
- REYNOLDS AND ANDERSON NEARLY CAME TO PHYSICAL BLOWS. Everybody on the set knew Reynolds had a temper, and everybody knew the director and Reynolds didn’t quite get along.
- ANDERSON THINKS A GOOD PORN STAR NAME SHOULD HAVE TWO “G”S AND ONE “K” IN IT. The director told NPR he’s not sure how he came up with the name Dirk Diggler, but for some reason he wrote the name down on an index card when he was 17 years old.
Find out who played Dirk Diggler and other characters in the Paul Thomas Anderson film Boogie Nights. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
English. The Dirk Diggler Story is a 1988 mockumentary short film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It follows the rise and fall of Dirk Diggler, a well-endowed male porn star. The character was modeled on American porn actor John Holmes. The film was later expanded into Anderson's 1997 film Boogie Nights .
In the San Fernando Valley in 1977, teenage busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) gets discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who transforms him into adult-film sensation Dirk...
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A biographical drama about the rise and fall of a famous porn star in the late 1970s, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson at age 18. The film was the basis for his feature Boogie Nights and featured the song \"The Touch\".
