![]() ![]() “Shut up, Bill, you’re embarrassing me,” she barks at him for daring to interrupt her while she’s having sex with another man on a towel in a driveway as a group of onlookers surrounds them. Played by real-life pornstar Nina Hartley, Little Bill’s wife (as she’s officially credited) constantly, and blatantly, cheats on him. Macy plays hangdog assistant director Little Bill, a man who is nothing if not dedicated to his craft - unfortunately, his wife doesn’t feel the same way about their marriage. The naïve youngster experiences the highs of his new fame and lifestyle followed by a string of drug-fueled lows. Set in the late ’70s and early ’80s, the second feature from the then-27-year-old filmmaker explored the “golden age” of porn through the eyes of rising star Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg). ![]() “I thought I was being punked by my agents,” Macy, a now 14-time Emmy nominee, recalls of reading Paul Thomas Anderson’s modern classic, Boogie Nights. ![]() With his stock on the rise, the search for the next meaty gig was underway, and he couldn’t believe the script and character that his representation was suggesting. Macy had fought for the role, and it paid off with an Oscar nomination. After a decade-plus of TV guest spots and supporting film roles, his career-changing moment had arrived in the form of sad-sack Jerry Lundegaard, the struggling car salesman who proved to be an even more inept criminal in Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo. Macy assumed he was the victim of a racy prank. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo: New Line/Kobal/Shutterstock On his visit to a porn set, Burt Reynolds’s “clueless” attitude, and making Paul Thomas Anderson laugh - and smell - during that killer shot. ![]()
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