At Focus Features’ CinemaCon presentation, Joel Edgerton revealed that “salacious reasons” led him to flip through Garrard Conley’s memoir, “Boy Erased,” which Edgerton (“The Gift”) adapted into his second directed feature. Out September 28, the film casts Lucas Hedges as Jared, a Southern teen who is sent to gay conversion therapy by his religious mom and dad (Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe). Edgerton plays the program’s head therapist.
“I’m obsessed with cults and prisons, and I felt like I was going to get this glimpse into a world I’d heard about,” Edgerton told moderator Dave Karger during a luncheon at Casears Palace in Las Vegas. Then he introduced the first footage of the film shared with the public.
In opening scene shown, Jared stands in his kitchen, apologizing to his distressed parents for breaking up with his girlfriend and being attracted to men. Jared seems...
“I’m obsessed with cults and prisons, and I felt like I was going to get this glimpse into a world I’d heard about,” Edgerton told moderator Dave Karger during a luncheon at Casears Palace in Las Vegas. Then he introduced the first footage of the film shared with the public.
In opening scene shown, Jared stands in his kitchen, apologizing to his distressed parents for breaking up with his girlfriend and being attracted to men. Jared seems...
- 4/25/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
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