“Which I know is a weird thing to hear,” he says.
But that’s also why she loved it.
It didn’t feel like a “gimmick.”
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“It’s not really a story about these two characters understanding their sexuality,” she says.
“Its not centered around that and they dont really necessarily label it.
No one else does either and no one really questions it.”
“Our moms were best friends, so our families went to the same church.
We went three times a week for a decade.
We were in the Bible Belt.
It was as red as it could get back then.”
Movies, he mentions, were his “window” into the reality of his Evangelist surroundings.
I always felt a bit like an outsider.
Hearing Boone talk about his experience made Williams want to sign up for the role.
Boone also calls himself a massive Joss Whedon fan, specifically forBuffy the Vampire Slayer.
“Its funny movies never quite caught up in a mainstream way.”
With a hope and prayer and with more efforts like this maybe they will.
