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Think The Deuce Is Too Crazy to Be Based on Real Life? Think Again

Is The Deuce a True Story?

Think The Deuce Is Too Crazy to Be Based on Real Life? Think Again

September 28, 2018 by Sabienna Bowman

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Is Candy a real person?

Gyllenhaal's Candy is the show's focal point. A sex worker turned porn director, she's driven by ambition and a desire to make a better life for herself and her son. But is she based on a real person? Unlike Franco's twin characters, there's no single person who inspired Candy, but Simon told Paste that there are two women the character is based on. Simon told the outlet, "She's a mixture of about two people in specific, but other people mixed in. There was a Candy who was a part-time bartender at Vincent's bar who actually started as a prostitute/street walker and was a little bit actualized, a little bit, by the politics she heard in the bar from Vincent's girlfriend, but also had some preliminary involvement in the early days of porn."
The second inspiration for the character is Candida Royalle, a porn actress turned director whose career path mirrored Candy's trajectory so far. By the '80s, she had founded her own production company, Femme Productions, and she made adult films aimed at women and couples instead of satisfying the male gaze. She also had multiple magazine columns, much like Candy does at the start of season two.

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