Director Of ‘Boy Erased’ Regrets Not Promoting Movie In “A Streaming Situation”
In a recent interview to promote his new film “The King”, actor, writer and director Joel Edgerton talks about his movie ‘Boy Erased’, an adaptation from Gerrard Conley’s memoir about “his experience as a young man subjected to gay conversion therapy” by his parents.
Edgerton recalled the reason for accepting the Focus deal instead of “a streaming solution” as he called it.
“We had a really interesting debate about which way to go. Focus had this incredible track record with putting out these LGBTQ films like ‘Brokeback’ and ‘Milk,’ so I felt we were in the right hands. We wanted to create a face-to-face scenario where we’d have face time with audiences and have Q&As and generate discussions. To me, it felt like that was the right way to go.”
“The moment you put something on a streaming platform, everybody in every household in all these countries can see it at the exact same time,” he said. “You don’t get that chatter — and this was sad for me — of, ‘When is this film coming to my country?’ or, ‘I have to drive five hours to see it,’ or, ‘I just can’t afford the time and money.’”
Edgerton added: “I realized, ‘OK, that’s a good enough reason to put a movie as soon as you can on Netflix, especially with ‘Boy Erased.’ The pride that everybody felt with that film about the ability to help start conversations within families, change points of views, make them feel differently in their lives, made me wish we could’ve just dropped it everywhere rather than holding onto it.”
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