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Leslie Jordan and Mink Stole in Eating Out 3
world and didn’t even know how to answer e-mails. But he quickly changed his Lives—seem to come down to the almighty dollar, as Jordan explained.
point-of-view. “Its [Sissies] is on the back burner, and at one point we had the money raised,
“I slowly began to navigate the Internet,” he explained. “Of course when I found sets built, actors hired and the money fell through. It was heartbreaking,” he
all that free porn was when I really thought, ‘Wow! This is something I really need confessed. “The whole debacle of Sordid Lives: The Series has dampened our
to learn how to do!’ I’m just amazed at myself at how I find these sites. It’s a whole enthusiasm. Not to point fingers—why were we surprised when [LOGO] couldn’t
new frontier out there.” pony up for another season?”
One way the Emmy Award-winner also keeps busy in his acting life is by not be- But, this is one man who is not deterred and remains steadfast in his conquest
ing too selective, because of the lifestyle he has grown accustom to. Might want of all areas of the entertainment world. He cited the fact that he is really acting out
to stay off the video-on-demand sites, there, Leslie! his dream role as himself.
“People think that we are just offered stuff left and right,” he said, “Maybe for “I know this is going to sound so conceited, I have never found a part to play
the Tom Cruises and Angelina Jolies of the world. But, honestly, I supplement my that was more interesting than me in real life,” he answered laughingly. “I’m a
income with a lot of stand-up work and I’m on the road eight months out of the good actor, but I ain’t no Meryl Streep or Robert De Niro. I’m never going to lose
year. I’m such a whore to laughter.” myself in a role; I just do little different aspects of me when I act.
Seeing as the 54-year-old has been busier than a whore on dollar day lately “I don’t want to be an actor-for-hire,” he stated. “My manager wanted me to go
promoting his autobiography My Trip Down The Pink Carpet, while subsequently audition for this one scene with some upcoming movie with Meryl Streep and
performing a one-man show of the same name in the past year—you’d think he’d Alec Baldwin. And I was the straight man, just a boring little part playing a doctor.
be ready for a vacation. “If I’m in a scene with Meryl Streep, I’ll just be sitting there serving her. I don’t
Well, as the saying goes, there’s no rest for the wicked, as he was prepping to go have any interest in that. And my manager said, ‘It’s Meryl Streep!’ And I said, ‘I
on an Alaskan cruise. Albeit, it’s a working vacation, naturally. don’t give a shit if it’s Jesus Christ!’
“I’m the featured entertainment doing my stand-up,” Jordan professed. “I’m I was thinking the other day what dream role could drop into my lap, and that’s
taking my 75-year-old mother and identical twin sisters on a gay cruise! 2,000 gay yet-to- be-determined.” While the 2006 Academy Award-winning song illustrated
men and my mother—there gonna have a blast.” that “It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp,” Jordan definitely personifies that one doesn’t
Another family that Jordan has always counted on is the one he made through have to sell himself out in order to be a self-proclaimed laugh whore.
working with writer/director Shores. Unfortunately, two of their collaborations
—a film version of Sissies and a second season of the television version of Sordid Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat opens in Los Angeles on October 16.
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