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Contents:

• TREVANTE RHOS USED HIS GAY BT FRIEND FOR INSPIRATN ‘MOONLIGHT’
• TREVANTE RHOS GAY, WIFE, GIRLIEND, MARRIED
• ‘IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE VULNERABLE’: HOW MOONLIGHT REFLECTS BEG A BLACK GAY MAN THE US
• TREVANTE RHOS USED HIS GAY BT FRIEND FOR INSPIRATN ‘MOONLIGHT’

TREVANTE RHOS USED HIS GAY BT FRIEND FOR INSPIRATN ‘MOONLIGHT’

It tells the story of Chiron, a gay, black boy growg up poor Miami, and follows him through his teenage years to adulthood.

“Beg a black man Amerin is relatively difficult right now, beg a gay man Ameri is credibly difficult and so beg a black, gay man, like I’ve said before, n be perceived as the worst possible thg right now. They key to playg Chiron, he says, was not to assume a difference between beg gay and beg straight. “One of my bt iends is homosexual so I knew his stggle, but wasn’t about pullg om that.

CelebryTrevante Rhos once explaed how he found spiratn for his breakthrough 'Moonlight' role om his childhood gay iend. Directed by Barry Jenks, the film was a g-of-age movie about Chiron: a young gay black male growg up poverty.

TREVANTE RHOS GAY, WIFE, GIRLIEND, MARRIED

One of those plac saw the young actor g his gay iend as spiratn. How Trevante Rhos ed his gay iend as spiratn for ‘Moonlight’. But Rhos also related to the character bee of a gay iend he ed to have his childhood.

“And then growg up wh a bt iend who is a homosexual and seeg what he had to go through wh his fay, wh other people, and not beg able to intify wh anyone bee he felt like no one would be able to relate, and all the thgs. Although Rhos’ gay iend was an spiratn, the Bird Box actor sisted that wasn’t his primary spiratnal source.

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‘IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE VULNERABLE’: HOW MOONLIGHT REFLECTS BEG A BLACK GAY MAN THE US

What turned Rhos misty was the rellectn of the journey to self-acceptance of a gay iend he’s known sce he was young. Rhos, who is “pletely” straight, ed his iend’s experience for the gay material, but elements of his own life prepared him for the role, cludg beg tranged om his father and havg experienced bullyg. As for those who will rpond to one of the few reprentatns of black queer masculy our diversy-starved culture, perhaps anotg straight Rhos a gay in, the actor says brg on.

JUZWIAK: It strik me as odd that people are referrg to Moonlight as a gay movie, when your character Chiron never explicly intifi as gay. The qutn people ask me all the time is, “How was playg a gay character?

And then growg up wh a bt iend who is a homosexual and seeg what he had to go through wh his fay, wh other people, and not beg able to intify wh anyone bee he felt like no one would be able to relate, and all the thgs.

TREVANTE RHOS USED HIS GAY BT FRIEND FOR INSPIRATN ‘MOONLIGHT’

Dpe renewed lls for people to judge the film on s own importance, the distrsg accatns of rape agast Parker – s star, as well as wrer and director – have meant s red-rpet-to-awards glory is lookg nsirably ls no movie was perhaps ever more sorely required to prevent another #OsrsSoWhe than Moonlight: Barry Jenks’s drama trackg a black gay man at three stag over his film has had an extraordary embrace on the tumn ftival circu; s brilliance has left few stumblg out of the cema unmoved. It is a sentiment that, oddly, echo that of Parker, who claimed he would never play a gay character bee of the need to “prerve black masculy”. ”In the film, Chiron regulat his behavur orr to prevent people om knowg he’s gay, but the bulli at school and his cel mother are aware of his sexualy and persecute him as a rult.