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God’s Promise, run by conservative brother sister duo Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.) and Dr. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle), specializes in therapy that aims to “cure” teens of “same sex attraction.” There, Canada Goose Jackets Cameron grapples not only with her own desires, but the dilemmas of those around her, including commune raised Jane Fonda (“American Honey” star Sasha Lane), native Lakota teen Adam Red Eagle (Forrest Goodluck of “The Revenant”), and football fanatic Erin (Emily Skeggs of “Fun Home” fame). Through a surprising mix of comedy and drama, Akhavan’s film unravels the pressures young people face to conform to the unfathomable ideals of misguided adults.
“Cameron Post”is based on a2012 young adult novel by Emily M. Danforth, which centers on a 12 year canada goose coats old Cameron in the 1990s trying to come to terms with the realization that she’s gay. Although the film adaptation focuses on Cameron as a 17 year old, the message of the movie and the novel is the same: Yes, conversion therapy is buy canada goose jacket cheap real, and it’s still happening today.
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On set, did you have a feeling it would be as impactful as it turned out?
SL:I kind of knew, because especially as we’re filming around election time, you got the sense that, oh shit, we’re really making this movie and it’s very relevant. So, we did get that hunch. But I think I was even still like, wow, this really is something, watching it again.
CM: We all really became the characters and the characters became us. We shot it in 23 days. It was this whirlwind of a movie. We just jumped in and gave our all to every piece of it.
How did it feel,as young actresses in Hollywood,to find roles as dynamic as Cameron and Jane?
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CM: It was a real departure for me from the other things I’ve done in my career, and that was important to me because it was the first movie I did after taking a break for a year. I really wanted to do something that, in a lot of ways, hit close to home [Editor’s note:Moretz has two gay brothers] and was able to show a side of myself that I hadn’t been able to depict on screen. And, in turn, through depicting it on screen, I think I opened my mind buy canada goose jacket up into different areas of my emotionality, and my own depth and perspective on things.
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CM: It was shocking for all of us. Even after reading the script, we probably Googled it, too. Like, “Is this real?”
SL: Yeah. Knowing a little bit about it, you’re still like, wait, this is like legit and actually happening?It’s a lot of emotions, man. You feel a lot Canada Goose Outlet of empathy. It’s shit. But what this film does is there’s also this kind of other perspective where these newmediadoc people [the counselors] truly feel canadian goose jacket like what they’re doing is something. Like they’re really helping these people by converting them. You start to think about that, too. It’s kind of a bit of a mind fuck.
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Do you feel like now is a good time to release Canada Goose online this film because of that reality?
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CM: I think a headline on one of the reviews was “This Movie Is Mike Pence’s Biggest Nightmare.” And it’s like, yeah, it should be. It should be the administration’s biggest nightmare.
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