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Lucas Hedges Says He's "Not Totally Straight" But "Not Necessarily Bisexual"
Lucas Hedges is opening up about his sexuality.
While appearing in New York Magazine's Decline Preview, the performer is more than prepared to tease his exciting unused projects. At the same time, some of his roles will likely spark conversation about his personal life.
"I owe it to this part to communicate as honestly as possible. In the early stages of my life, some of the people I was most infatuated with were my closest male friends," he common with the publication. "That was the case through lofty school, and I think I was always aware that while for the most part I was attracted to women, I existed on a spectrum."
Lucas continued, "I felt ashamed that I wasn't 100 percent, because it was clear that one side of sexuality presents issues, and the other doesn't as much. I recognize myself as existing on that spectrum: Not totally straight, but also not gay and not necessarily bisexual."
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This fall, Lucas will star in the movie Boy Erased where he plays a gay teenager who is sent
LucasHedgesis garnering early Oscar buzz for “Boy Erased,” in which he portrays a fundamentalist Christian teen who attends a “gay conversion” camp.
Now the 21-year-old actor is using the cultural discussion surrounding the hotly anticipated film to open up about his own sexuality.
Hedges, who received a supporting player Oscar nomination for 2016′s “Manchester by the Sea,” told Vulture in an interview published Wednesday that he “exists on a spectrum” but stopped brief of using terms like “straight,” “gay” or “bisexual” to label his sexuality.
“In the initial stages of my life, some of the people I was most infatuated with were my closest male friends,” he explained. “That was the case through high institution, and I ponder I was always aware that while for the most part I was attracted to women, I existed on a spectrum.”
Recalling a middle school health class discussion, he added, “I felt ashamed that I wasn’t 100 percent, because it was clear that one side of sexuality presents issues, and the other doesn’t as much. I recognize myself as existing on that spectrum: Not totally straight, but also not gay and not necessarily bisexual.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he re
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\Oscar-nominated actor Lucas Hedges knows that since he’s starring in the conversion therapy drama Boy Erased, people will ask him about his own sexuality.
“I owe it to this part to speak as honestly as possible,” he says in a fresh >Vulture interview. “In the early stages of my life, some of the people I was most infatuated with were my closest male friends. That was the case through high school, and I think I was always aware that while for the most part I was attracted to women, I existed on a spectrum.”
He remembers a sixth-grade health teacher describing sexuality as a broad range where many people may fall in some difficult-to-define space between straight and gay. “I felt ashamed that I wasn’t 100 percent, because it was clear that one side of sexuality presents issues, and the other doesn’t as much,” he says. “I recognize myself as existing on that spectrum: Not totally straight, but also not gay and not necessarily bisexual.”
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Lucas Hedges wants to be this year’s Timothee Chalamet. The thing is, Hedges was breaking through at the same time as Chalamet, and I think Chalamet got most of the attention. Hedges has already been in Manchester by the Sea (lord I hated that movie), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (hated it) and Lady Bird (loved it), and he’s got a slew of new films coming out this fall: Boy Erased (about gay conversion therapy), Ben Is Back (where he plays a drug addict recently out of rehab) and Mid90s (about skater boys). Lucas has already played several gay characters now, so obviously people are starting to wonder about the 21-year-old’s sexuality, and whether he’s a straight actor swooping up all of these gay roles, or something else. Lucas addressed the questions in New York Magazine and GQ:
In an interview with New York magazine, Lucas addressed the issue: “I recognize myself as existing on that spectrum: Not totally straight, but also not gay and not necessarily bisexual,” he said.
Lucas says now to GQ, “It feels like a relief for me to put words to something that is complex and feels like it honors my hold experience.” And in the a