"I found that addiction is just a way of coping with pain. Harris says she had to let go of her judgment about the character and offer a three-dimensional view of her. And I hadn't really seen it sort of done in a movie or a TV show, carrying the warmth that I think it carries for the characters in this film.īritish actress Naomie Harris says that at first, she had been nervous about portraying Paula - a type of person often depicted as a stereotype. I thought back on growing up in the village, there were these men who would every now and then just go out of their way to be like, naw, naw, naw, don't do that. "But, inside they care and they have a heart." "In my community, there's people there that care for you, even though they do bad stuff, like, they sell drugs and stuff," he says. Hibbert himself grew up in another Miami neighborhood, "not as bad as Liberty City was, but it's, like, bad-ish." Hibbert agrees that the movie offers a very authentic view of the complex relationships formed in the 'hood. It's the 12-year-old actor's big screen debut. And he's judged a lot about his sexuality and who he likes and what he likes." "He's a not an understood boy," says Alex R. Chiron ends up cowering inside a boarded-up crack house. We first meet Chiron as a 10-year-old boy, getting chased by bullies through the streets of the city's impoverished Liberty City neighborhood. It's an authentic, intimate portrait of a young, gay black man whose mother is a crack addict. The new movie Moonlight is set in Miami in the 1980s, at the height of the war on drugs. The film is told with different actors playing Chiron at different stages of his life. Hibbert as Chiron, a young black man growing up gay in an impoverished part of Miami in Moonlight.
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