In rotting in the sun, Jordan firstman wants to tell the truths of modern gayness

Social media sensation Jordan Firstman tells PinkNews about letting it all hang out in his X-rated film Rotting in the Sun.

It strikes me as somewhat ironic that Jordan Firstman, the actor, writer and comedian who earned the title of “the funniest man on the internet” in 2020, should be regaling me with an anecdote of how supremely dislikable some people find him in real life.

“On my birthday last year in Berlin, I was at this bar with a bunch of friends, and this guy was there,” he tells me over Zoom. “And a person came up and started saying how much he loved me, and the guy was so visibly angry”. After a couple of minutes, Firstman decided to confront him. “I was like, okay, so, you hate me, obviously, do you want to talk about it? And me giving him permission, he just went the f**k off. He was like, you represent everything I hate in this world,” he grins.

Still, he wasn’t deterred. “I’ve always been the kind of person that, I know I can be polarising, but I make people say it to me”.

It’s just as well that Firstman remains unbothered about his detractors, because his latest film, Rotting in the Sun, is one big provocation.

Directed by Sebastián Silva, the Chilean filmmaker best known for his cringe comedy Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus and Golden Globe-nominated breakthrough The Maid, the indie comedy-thriller made waves in January at Sundance after headlines declared Rotting in the Sun as “the movie with 30 d**ks”, instantly putting it on the radar of millennial Instagram gays.

Read the full interview here.