But in your own words, what would you say that the movie is really about?ĪS – I think that Moonlight is a radical depiction of modern day masculinity. O – Moonlight is obviously massively acclaimed, and it’s basically been analyzed to death. But he did go to a screening in Los Angeles and Trevante and Barry were there, and they got to meet him. I know that he has a lot going on,I get it.
Has it happened?Īshton Sanders – No, I have not met Brad Pitt. OFFICE – A few weeks ago, you said you hadn’t met Brad Pitt yet. We spoke over the phone about masculinity, a pivotal chair-breaking scene, and smoking with Childish Gambino. He immediately connected with the script, Jenkins connected with him, and that was it. McCraney is one of his favorite playwrights, and he auditioned right before he was set to head into his junior year at DePaul University’s prestigious theater program. Sanders, an LA native, was cast in Moonlight after appearing in Straight Outta Compton. The actors were kept separated throughout filming, and thus it’s especially shocking to see how alike their versions of Chiron are-Hibbert and Sanders even have the same posture, with their shoulders permanently shrugged all the way up to their ears. All the while, Sanders keeps his perfor mance linked with that of Hibber t and Rhodes. The cast is, notably, entirely black.Īshton Sanders is brilliant as the adolescent Chiron-he has what New Yorker cr itic Hilton Als called “a conjurer’s g ifts.” Sanders, with Jharrel Jerome’s adolescent Kevin, filmed Moonlight’s only physically intimate scene, and he portrays Chiron’s biggest shift in personality, showing the character at his lowest, most humiliated point, and also the turn when he begins to fight back. But he connects with a dealer named Juan, played by Mahershala Ali, who with his kindhearted partner Teresa casually fosters him, and most significantly with Kevin, a boy from school with whom he falls in love. His classmates beat him up and call him a faggot. Hibbert) a lonely teenager (Ashton Sanders) and as a strapping adult with assumed confidence ( Trevante Rhodes). The film follows Chiron during three stages of his life, in each of which he’s played by different actors: as a nearly wordless kid (Alex R. The film is an adaptation of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue-the play’s title pops up during a meaningful moment in the film, and the phrase embodies the sort of dreamy profundity that defines the movie.
Moonlight is about a lot of things, but simply put it’s about Chiron, a boy grappling with his sexuality in the projects of Liberty City, Miami. Director Barry Jenkins might make an excellent psychologist. Above all else, the movie is empathetic-a clear-eyed, sensitive, and unfussy examination of its characters. But that’s exactly the opposite of what Moonlight wants you to feel. I’ve seen the thing multiple times, and after each screening I look around with damp eyes, brattily judging anyone who doesn’t seem at least slightly shattered. It is both gut-wrenching and gossamer, gentle and terrifying a small-scale story of monumental ideas. The movie Moonlight is discussed in hushed, reverent tones, the way people might speak after a religious service-a funeral maybe, depending on how hard it hits you.
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