Back in the days when I had the bandwidth to review porn films every month in this magazine, I recall seeing Brent Corrigan as a big name in the Twink section of the video store.  I can’t say for certain if I ever reviewed one of his films, but I certainly remembered his name and face.

At the beginning of February, PURE Pride held their Together 2013 party at Brixx Bar in Edmonton for which they flew Corrigan out as a special guest.  Prior to the show, he sat down for an interview with GayCalgary Magazine.  We were curious if he has ever visited our part of the world prior to this trip.

"I’ve been to Winnipeg and Saskatoon.  I was actually here earlier in January.  The year is starting off pretty big.  This is actually the first time in the span of having done adult [films] for 6 or so years, now in my retirement Canada is catching on, we want Brent Corrigan.  But I’m happy to come."

He had one gripe from his first impressions of Alberta - the cold weather.  However, at the time of the party it was pretty mild outside – nothing compared to the snowstorm and biting cold a few weekends ago.

"I’d like to actually come to central Canada when it’s maybe nice out one time.  (laughs) The last two months I’ve been here it’s been [just below 0] degrees – actually it’s warmed up a bit, apparently, from what people tell me, because usually it’s like what, [-30] or something?  But I look forward to coming back during fairer weather."

To be honest, I almost didn’t recognize the actor when I first saw him.  The once skinny kid has since blossomed into a well muscled and intelligent young man.  Alongside all that personal growth, Corrigan also made the career move of retiring from the porn industry to pursue opportunities in mainstream film.

"It’s a little bit complicated.  I announced in November of 2011...that I was not intending to go back to doing adult [film].  I had avoided making announcements like that because I didn’t want to come out of retirement right away, I wanted to make sure that I had a foothold in mainstream.  Even prior to that, I hadn’t done work in 2 or 3 years, so now I’m looking at about 3 years of not having done any work in front of the camera in the adult capacity.  I’m still doing touring and still appearing, I still have my website TheNewBrentCorrigan.com, and I post on the blog regularly.  I have all my old adult material there, streaming, so you can still familiarize yourself with the best of it.  But I consider myself transitional, if you will."

Corrigan, known by his real name Sean Paul Lockhart outside of his adult film career, told us a bit about what he has been working on lately.

"I did Judas Kiss with Charlie David.  We actually shot that out of Seattle, where I’m from.  The last movie I shot was a film called Truth.  It’s not even released yet.  We shot it outside of New York City in December of 2012.  I’m producer and the star of that.  This is my first big [mainstream project], top billed, Sean Paul Lockhart is #1 there.  It’s the first one ever.  It’s a really deep dark movie, it’s very gritty and subversive.  It’ll do the festival circuits: CAN, Tribeca, and Sundance is just passed, we missed that.  Some other stuff: I’m actually directing my fist mainstream project in March, which is next month.  I’m doing 3 or 4 projects this year, and I’m just taking whatever they’re throwing at me – working as best I can, and taking it wherever it comes."

This begged the question whether he is ultimately hoping to take his career into the realm of Television.

"I’m not against [doing TV].  [But] I really love film, I really love the format and the process of telling an hour and a half long feature piece.  Because of my adult background, a lot of television networks wouldn’t consider me, or they’d probably have a problem with me.  I look at it realistic, about the mainstream acting: I’m not going to be a Disney kid – that’s cool, I never wanted to be.  ...Really what I want to do is direct.  So acting is about getting experience and being around it, and learning as I’m doing."

We asked about the model search area of his website, and whether this project would be put on hold for his other pursuits.

"I get regular people who come in and want to work.  ...I’m still paying models and doing some stuff but I’m not as active as I would have been maybe 4 or 5 years ago.  For me, specifically, where I want to aim – my genre would be like not twink, gravitating away from that toward the hunk, young, collage guys sort of area because I find the models are a little more manageable, and I find them to be a little more...widely appreciated.  (laughs)"

Finally, he had something to say to his Alberta fans and GayCalgary Magazine readers:

"I just want to say thank you for having me out here, I look forward to being back out to Edmonton and Calgary maybe sometime. ...You people are really awesome, everybody’s really friendly, and you can’t put a flame to that."

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