Trevante Rhos isn't gay but his character the new drama Moonlight is. Still, the 26-year-old knows thgs uld have easily been different. 'I was
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- TREVANTE RHOS USED HIS GAY BT FRIEND FOR INSPIRATN ‘MOONLIGHT’
- ‘IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE VULNERABLE’: HOW MOONLIGHT REFLECTS BEG A BLACK GAY MAN THE US
- TREVANTE RHOS GAY, WIFE, GIRLIEND, MARRIED
TREVANTE RHOS USED HIS GAY BT FRIEND FOR INSPIRATN ‘MOONLIGHT’
For his breakthrough role 'Moonlight,' Trevante Rhos once explaed how he found spiratn for the role his gay iend. * trevante rhodes gay *
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.
One of those plac saw the young actor g his gay iend as spiratn.
‘IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE VULNERABLE’: HOW MOONLIGHT REFLECTS BEG A BLACK GAY MAN THE US
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. “One of my bt iends is homosexual, so I knew his stggle, but wasn’t about pullg om that, ” Rhos told People.
What turned Rhos misty was the rellectn of the journey to self-acceptance of a gay iend he’s known sce he was young.
TREVANTE RHOS GAY, WIFE, GIRLIEND, MARRIED
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.