I've always thought this is about an actress who started off in porn movies but eventually becomes a star. She has hidden her origins and denied her past but it comes back to haunt her. The leading actor/director from her previous films feels rejected and betrayed by her as he feels he gave her everything and made her a star but she just wiped him from her memory ‘like a greasepaint mask’. I think he may have been her lover but she moved on and left him with only her films (thus the masturbation/darkroom scene). He plans his revenge, rehearses his scene and exposes her past in a public setting (perhaps a film premier) to she shock of her 'courtiers', rendering her speechless, panicked and with a wrecked career.
I've always thought this is about an actress who started off in porn movies but eventually becomes a star. She has hidden her origins and denied her past but it comes back to haunt her. The leading actor/director from her previous films feels rejected and betrayed by her as he feels he gave her everything and made her a star but she just wiped him from her memory ‘like a greasepaint mask’. I think he may have been her lover but she moved on and left him with only her films (thus the masturbation/darkroom scene). He plans his revenge, rehearses his scene and exposes her past in a public setting (perhaps a film premier) to she shock of her 'courtiers', rendering her speechless, panicked and with a wrecked career.