Chloe Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane on Conversion Therapy Film 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post'

Jennifer Ehle, John Gallagher Jr., Forrest Goodluck and Emily Skeggs also star. The film is directed by Desiree Akhavan.

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00:00I think the amazing thing about getting older, and maybe you guys will support me in that,

00:05is that you realize that all the hierarchies and all the rules that were spoon-fed to you growing up

00:09are complete bullshit, and that the one thing about being older is you kind of get to decide all your own things.

00:15You get to decide what's funny, what's cool, what's attractive, what a career is.

00:20I feel like you build a life for yourself, and what was interesting to me about making this film

00:27was telling the story of kids who were going to have to do that really young.

00:30So Chloe, tell me about taking on this role, when you read the script, what made you say,

00:40I want to do it?

00:40Even though it was dealing with such heavy subject matter, it had this kind of, this feeling to it

00:49which I feel like hasn't been seen, and we talked, and we had all the same ideas.

00:56Yeah, there was, it felt like we had both wanted to make a film about something heartbreaking and important,

01:05but that didn't feel like taking your medicine.

01:06We wanted to be more about the interpersonal relationships of these young kids,

01:10these young gay kids who are plucked out of normal society and placed in a, you know, a boarding school together,

01:17and they're, for the first time, meeting other kids like them, realizing that they're not alone.

01:22And for the rest of the actors here, did you learn something new about these,

01:27or how much did you know about sort of these gay conversion centers,

01:30and was that sort of an eye-opening experience when you read the script,

01:34or did you do any research before you got involved with this story?

01:39For me, as an Indian person of this continent, like, it's, it's a story that I didn't know that much about,

01:48but it's something that's close to me because we had a version of that,

01:51which was the residential school system, which took Indian children from their homes

01:56and tried to convert them to Western culture.

01:59What I learned that really shocked me was how well-intentioned people can be,

02:04and how they can really want to do good, and really want to help,

02:07but be so terribly misguided, and actually cause real harm.

02:12I was really just drawn to the story, and the, the really masterful way that it was told in the script

02:18was that it, it looked at a really intense subject, and it didn't cast a ton of judgment,

02:24and it really just kind of laid it all out there.

02:29So, I'll see you next time.

02:31Bye.