Julian's backstory


AG was on Sundance recently, and I watched it again for the first time in a long time. I've come up with Julian's past...

His real name is Bobby Bob Johnson, and he's from Pigkisser, Iowa. He was always gorgeous, but not too bright, and everyone said he should go to Hollywood and get in the movies. So, he did. He had no class, only good looks, and couldn't get a break in the movies so he became a street hustler to get money to live. He worked for Leon for awhile turning tricks - gay and straight. He met Ann - maybe she seeks out men for high-end "escort" services, and she took him under her wing and taught him to become Julian Kaye. How to talk, how to walk (in that wonderful crotch-forward way he has), how to dress, how to "bleep". (Anne mentioned to him in the film "I made you what you are".)

If Joe Buck had found an "Anne", he would have wound up the same way.

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As I recall, the movie didn't suffer from a lack of a backstory. We learned what we needed to know about Julian Kaye as we went along.

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