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Chloe Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane on Conversion Therapy Film 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' | Sundance 2018
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Jennifer Ehle, John Gallagher Jr., Forrest Goodluck and Emily Skeggs also star. The film is directed by Desiree Akhavan.
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I think the amazing thing about getting older, and maybe you guys will support me in that,
00:05
is that you realize that all the hierarchies and all the rules that were spoon-fed to you growing up
00:09
are complete bullshit, and that the one thing about being older is you kind of get to decide all your own things.
00:15
You get to decide what's funny, what's cool, what's attractive, what a career is.
00:20
I feel like you build a life for yourself, and what was interesting to me about making this film
00:27
was telling the story of kids who were going to have to do that really young.
00:30
So Chloe, tell me about taking on this role, when you read the script, what made you say,
00:40
I want to do it?
00:40
Even though it was dealing with such heavy subject matter, it had this kind of, this feeling to it
00:49
which I feel like hasn't been seen, and we talked, and we had all the same ideas.
00:56
Yeah, there was, it felt like we had both wanted to make a film about something heartbreaking and important,
01:05
but that didn't feel like taking your medicine.
01:06
We wanted to be more about the interpersonal relationships of these young kids,
01:10
these young gay kids who are plucked out of normal society and placed in a, you know, a boarding school together,
01:17
and they're, for the first time, meeting other kids like them, realizing that they're not alone.
01:22
And for the rest of the actors here, did you learn something new about these,
01:27
or how much did you know about sort of these gay conversion centers,
01:30
and was that sort of an eye-opening experience when you read the script,
01:34
or did you do any research before you got involved with this story?
01:39
For me, as an Indian person of this continent, like, it's, it's a story that I didn't know that much about,
01:48
but it's something that's close to me because we had a version of that,
01:51
which was the residential school system, which took Indian children from their homes
01:56
and tried to convert them to Western culture.
01:59
What I learned that really shocked me was how well-intentioned people can be,
02:04
and how they can really want to do good, and really want to help,
02:07
but be so terribly misguided, and actually cause real harm.
02:12
I was really just drawn to the story, and the, the really masterful way that it was told in the script
02:18
was that it, it looked at a really intense subject, and it didn't cast a ton of judgment,
02:24
and it really just kind of laid it all out there.
02:29
So, I'll see you next time.
02:31
Bye.
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