A new Netflix series about ‘the godfather of rough sex’ has had furious viewers threatening to cancel their subscriptions.
Risqué topics are nothing new for the streamer, with Netflix debuting Money Shot: The Pornhub Story last year and its infamous 365 Days trilogy, but its latest miniseries has had fans accusing it of ‘making porn mainstream’.
Supersex – which boasts an 86 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes – ‘loosely’ tells the story of one of the most iconic porn stars to ever perform in front of a camera in the form of Rocco Siffredi.
The porn star shot over 1,300 films during his pretty lengthy career, gaining a name for himself as the ‘godfather of rough sex’.
So, you can kind of guess where this series is heading.
Alessandro Borghi, who plays Rocco, told Italian news outlet Today that he filmed a whopping 50 sex scenes in just 95 days.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly the drama has been rated strictly for viewers 18 and over.
However, that hasn’t stopped Netflix subscribers from sharing their disgust at the very graphic scenes in Supersex.
Many were left far from impressed after Netflix posted an excerpt of an X-rated scene to its US Instagram account, before it was mysteriously deleted.
According to the Daily Star, the scene showed Borghi shirtless in a scene with a lot of scantily clad women.
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The group were moving up and down suggestively – though it isn’t clear what was actually going on.
Screenshots obtained by the Mail Online show how furious subscribers are feeling.
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“Now we have porn on Netflix as well? Cancelling account while we speak, my kids can’t see this,” one person commented.
“Isn’t this inappropriate for a platform where KIDS FOLLOW YOU?!” a second added.
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A third said: “Are we just making porn mainstream now? It’s pretty sickening that there is no warning on explicit content like this.
“Yet women who post a picture breastfeeding are flagged. This should be a separate category on Netflix if you want to put stuff like this out.”
UNILAD has contacted Netflix for a comment.
Ahead of SuperSex’s release on Netflix, Rocco spoke to LADbible about the release.
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When asked whether viewers will be shocked by what they see in the series, Rocco said: “For sure.
“I never, ever like to tell you one part of me, I always say everything.
“You either like it or you don’t, this is who I am; I could never be who I am without showing everything about myself.
“The part shown on Netflix, which people don’t know, is the way I grew up, the way my life came up since I was a child. How did I grow up? What were the situations involved in my life?
“So this is the main Rocco, really, which people don’t know, most people know me just in front of the camera, naked.”
Supersex is streaming on Netflix right now.
Netflix has dropped a saucy first trailer for its upcoming series about one of the world’s most famous porn stars.
Warning: Do not watch this with your parents in the room or even with them in the house – it’s just not worth the risk of them walking in at the worst possible moment.
You’ll understand my warnings when you check out the trailer below:
Alessandro Borghi takes on the role of Rocco Siffredi in the new series, which is inspired by the ‘sex icon’ from Italy.
Siffredi began his career in the adult film industry in 1986, and since then has gone on to star in more than a few explicit films.
To be more specific, he’s appeared in more than 1,300 porn videos.
Over the course of the series, Netflix’s Supersex will look at how Siffredi went from being Rocco Tano, a ‘simple guy from Ortona’ in central Italy, to becoming the ‘most famous pornstar in the world’.
With drama, intimacy, moans, fights, and naked motorcycle riding all packed in to less than two minutes in the trailer, the series looks set to be filled with wild moments and shocking storylines, which draw on both real and fictional moments of Siffredi’s life.
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The series has been created and written by Italian screenwriter Francesca Manieri, and co-stars Jasmine Trinca as the character of Lucia; a fictional woman in the story who ‘represents a synthesis of most women with whom Rocco had a relationship in his life’, a synopsis explains.
Joining Borghi and Trinca are Adriano Giannini as Rocco’s half-brother Tommaso; Saul Nanni, who plays a younger Rocco, and Gaia Messerklinger as female Italian porn star, Moana Pozzi.
Enrico Borello, Vincenzo Nemolato, Jade Pedri and Linda Caridi also feature in the series, which is set to arrive on Netflix in March.
Fans already can’t wait for the series, with many responding to the trailer to share their thoughts.
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“More of these, please; we all want to watch this,” one viewer commented, while another added: “Wooooooooooooow They finally made a movie about his life. This should be interesting…”
In the trailer, a voice-over warns: “Every power is an enigma. It can give you light, or throw you into darkness. But every existence lived to its fullest always has a price to pay.”
Captions in the trailer reveal there is ‘more to the story’ behind the name that so many people know from the industry, but we’ll just have to wait to find out exactly what ‘more’ there is.
Supersex will begin streaming on Netflix on 6 March.
