Last week the first clip from King Cobra debuted, giving us a brief taste of the James Franco produced (and starring), based on a true story of murder in the gay porn industry. Now director Justin Kelly has been talking about the film, which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival, and has suggested his actors weren’t shy when it came to the sex scene.

He told TheWrap, “We wanted to make it as unapologetic as possible. I didn’t have a desire to shock – it’s a part of the story. Myself and the actors discussed from day one that you can’t shy away.”

It appears the performers took that to heart, as Kelly adds, ‘“A few times, the actors took things further than the script.”

‘He referenced an early scene in which Slater’s middle-aged character wants to sample the goods of his barely legal young star, played by Clayton. “Please, make me feel wanted,” he says as he half begs and half forces himself on the young man.

‘In the script, the encounter “was far more mild, just kissing on the couch,” Kelly said. “But they decided it had to go further. Christian takes him up against the closet. That is what would have happened.”’

The film is about how porn actors Harlow Raymond Cuadra and Joseph Manuel Kerekes (Keegan Allen and James Franco) savagely killed porn producer and head of Cobra Video, Bryan Kocis (Christian SLater). They thought by doing so they’d be able to make it big behind-the-scenes of the porn world, and lure breakout porn star Brent Corrigan (Garrett Clayton) to work for them in order to make a massively successful movie.

Kelly was well aware that the subject matter could make it difficult to get a fair rating from the MPAA, saying, especially if he did want to be unapologetic about gay sex, saying,“It’s a complete fact that graphic gay male sex will get you an NC-17 rating. Straight men can [appear] completely naked and be choking a woman, and that’s PG-13. There are crazy rape scenes that get by, it’s mind-blowing.”

A new clip from the movie has also debuted, featuring Franco and Allen working up a sweat, which you can take a look at below. [Read more…]