Lucas Hedges Interview Boy Erased
284Boy Erased Interview Lucas Hedges
With Boy Erased, writer/director Joel Edgerton has crafted something essential. Based on Garrard Conley's harrowing memoir of the same name, the film follows Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges), a 19-year-old forced to attend a conversion therapy camp after coming out to his Baptist preacher father (Russell Crowe) and religiously doting mother (Nicole Kidman). It's a quietly devastating film led by a subtle, internal performance from Hedges, who makes the absolute most of his first leading role after earning a Best Supporting Oscar nomination for Manchester By the Sea. The film also stars Troye Sivan as a sympathetic fellow attendee of the camp and Edgerton himself as the program's harsh, authoritarian leader.
Before Boy Erased's premiere, I sat down with Hedges to discuss the film. During the interview, we talked about the key to delivering an internal, under-the-surface performance, being intimidated when Russell Crowe walked on to set, how he immersed himself in the film's southern world after being born and raised in Brooklyn, how feeling like an outsider has helped him as an actor, and how being a "very weird person" helped him land the role.
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