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- After a fight with his mother, Eddie moves in with Jack at his San Fernando Valley home. He gives himself the screen name "Dirk Diggler" and becomes a star because of his good looks, youthful charisma, and abnormally large penis.
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Boogie Nights is based on a mockumentary short film that Paul Thomas Anderson wrote and directed while he was still in high school called The Dirk Diggler Story. [4] The short itself was based on the 1981 documentary Exhausted: John C. Holmes, The Real Story , a documentary about the life of legendary porn actor John Holmes , on whom Dirk ...
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Nov 8, 2021 · Though Wahlberg's Dirk Diggler quickly ascends to the upper echelons of adult stardom, he is first introduced to the viewer as Eddie Adams, a young high school dropout working as a busboy in an...
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- 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.
Oct 7, 2022 · Like Holmes, Wahlberg’s Dirk Diggler was a star adult film performer in the late 1970s. Like Holmes, he was known for being well-endowed. Like Holmes, he did gay sex work after his mainstream career hit lean times. And like Holmes, Dirk Diggler had a run-in with a flamboyant drug dealer.
Dec 12, 2021 · Conceived nearly a decade before the 1997 release of Boogie Nights, when Anderson was a senior in high school, The Dirk Diggler Story is a half-hour mockumentary lampooning the life of an adult entertainer.
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.
