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Joel Edgerton on how he made the rape scene in 'Boy Erased' a safe space (exclusive)
The actor-director tells Yahoo Movies UK why it was important to create a safe space for his stars in the gay conversion therapy drama.
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Joel Edgerton To Direct, Lucas Hedges To Star In Gay Deprogram Drama ‘Boy Erased’
<strong>EXCLUSIVE</strong>: Multiple distributors are bidding for <em>Boy Erased,</em> a provocative drama Joel Edgerton has scripted and will direct based on the memoir by Garrard Conley. Edgerton will star with <em>Manchester By The Sea</em>‘s Lucas Hedges, and Edgerton is courting Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman for supporting roles, I’m told. Edgerton is producing with Anonymous Content’s Kerry Roberts and Steve Golin. Tony Lipp, Kim Hodgert Rebecca Yeldham and Ann Ruark are the exec prod
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Oscar Nominee Lucas Hedges on Nailing His Boston Accent for 'Manchester by the Sea'
At 20, Lucas Hedges is 2017’s youngest Oscar nominee. The Manchester by the Sea breakout brings some much-needed laughs to the devastating drama as Patrick, the confident, hockey- and basketball-playing, boat-working, wannabe rocker with two girlfriends who falls under the care of his disgruntled uncle (Casey Affleck). The actor told Yahoo Movies he auditioned for the role five times before finally getting the green light from writer-director Kenneth Lonergan.
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Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams on the Emotionally 'Painful' Experience of Making 'Manchester by the Sea'
Kenneth Lonergan’s new drama, Manchester by the Sea, is an emotionally devastating and powerful film about family, loss, and forgiveness. Imagine then how the subject matter affected the cast, which spent weeks filming Manchester. “It was painful,” Casey Affleck told Yahoo Movies (watch above).
