First Look: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe In 'Ex-Gay' Drama 'Boy Erased'
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | July 19, 2018
Producers behind the upcoming “ex-gay” drama Boy Erased released the film's first trailer on Tuesday.
Based on Garrard Conley's 2016 memoir Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family, Boy Erased stars Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Troye Sivan.
In the film, Jared (played by Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small town, is outed at 19, while attending college, to his conservative parents (Kidman, Crowe), who send him to a camp that promises to alter their son's sexuality.
In one scene included in the trailer, Jared is told by a camp counselor that God will not love him the way that he is.
The film, set to open on November 2, is directed by Joel Edgerton. Out singer-songwriter Troye Sivan plays Gary, who is also attending the camp. Sivan co-wrote with Jonsi an original song for the film, titled Revelation.
Conley currently lives in New York with his husband.
(Related: Garrard Conley: You don't have to be in conversion therapy to be in conversion therapy.)