Eli Roth Reveals He Funded Early Films by Catfishing as an Online Call Girl

Director Eli Roth revealed that he once took an interesting approach to raise money for his early films. “This can’t be true, dude. Get this: To fund his films in college, Roth worked as an online cybersex operator for Penthouse, posing as a woman,” Rob Lowe said to Roth, 53, on the Thursday, August 21, episode of SiriusXM’s “Literally! With Rob Lowe” podcast. Roth admitted to Lowe, 61, that it was true. “I did. Now you would call that catfishing,” the Hostel director quipped before getting into the details. “But back in 1992, I walked into my friend’s room and I was like, ‘What is that?’ And