The actor-director talks about beg unr scty as a straight man tellg and appearg a story about gay-nversn therapy
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TARON EGERTON CLARIFI HIS SEXUALY THE WAKE OF SPECULATN THAT HE’S GAY
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Are straight directors qualified to tell gay stori on screen? At least, not when first readg Boy Erased: A Memoir, Garrard Conley’s acunt of his childhood experienc gay nversn therapy.
The film is largely set Memphis at the real-life Love Actn, an “ex-gay” Christian mistry, n on screen by Edgerton as chief therapist Victor Syk (a portrayal of the mistry’s former director, John Smid) is not Edgerton’s first film behd and ont of mera (four years ago, he ma a psychologil thriller lled The Gift). ”Instead, he swung the other way, wrg Troye Sivan’s character, Gary: a posed, seemgly well-adjted young gay man, savvy enough to tell the nversn therapists what they want to hear. Although you wonr how a gay director would have tackled the same issu, the fact that Edgerton is some ways sanisg Conley’s memoir – rather than sensatnalisg – perhaps monstrat the creasg sensivi straight directors have about how they tell queer stori.
The actor-director tells Yahoo Movi UK why was important to create a safe space for his stars the gay nversn therapy drama. * joel edgerton gay *
But by Edgerton’s own admissn, his eagerns to avoid feedg to gay trop or g offence limed his wrg.
”Born New South Wal, Edgerton was raised a vout Catholic – a “Ned Flanrs kid” – a town he scrib as homophobic.