Jenkins enlisted college friend and cinematographer James Laxton, who had lensed the director’s debut film Medicine for Melancholy, to give each section, and the film itself, a … We sat down with actor Ashton Sanders from the upcoming film "Moonlight" to talk about some of the film's themes and his own vulnerabilities. The 20-year-old "Moonlight" actor talks finding common ground with his character, sharing scenes with Janelle Monáe, and acting as an exercise in therapy. He won several accolades and achieved recognition in 2016 for his performance as Chiron in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight.In his youth, he was an accomplished track and field sprinter, winning a gold medal at the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in 2009. In Moonlight’s three acts, Chiron is played by three different actors with very little resemblance to one another. Chiron, now portrayed by Trevante Rhodes, looks little like the nine-year-old hiding from the world. As a teenager (Ashton Sanders), should he have fought back? Chiron, the man he plays in the shimmering Moonlight, is suspicious and reticent. Trevante Nemour Rhodes (born February 10, 1990) is an American actor. Ashton Sanders’ performance in Barry Jenkins’ revelatory triptych Moonlight is all about risk. He is literally transformed as he grows from child, to teenager, and finally to adult. When a child, Chiron lives with his single, crack addict … Moonlight traces the life and struggles of Chiron (Alex Hibbert), a lower-class child from Miami. Marion Cotillard, actress, Inception: Moon square Chiron; Johnny Depp, actor, Pirates of the Caribbean: Moon sextile Chiron; Paul Bernardo, serial rapist/murderer: Moon novile Chiron; Thelonious Monk, jazz musician: Moon biquintile Chiron; Maria Montessori, founder of the Montessori School: Moon quincunx Chiron; Later, Kevin gives Chiron a ride home and asks if that was his first time doing anything sexual. MOONLIGHT DESCRIPTION SPECIAL FEATURES-Audio commentary with Director Barry Jenkins-Ensemble of emotion: The Making of Moonlight-Poetry through collaboration: The Music of Moonlight-Cruel beauty: Filming in MiamiThree time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented. And when a grown, hardened Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) reunites with Kevin (André Holland), the only guy who ever touched him affectionately, will he drop his guard? Each act is a moment in time in the life of Chiron, the protagonist in this story, but while brief, the episode marks a defining event in his life. Nicholas Britell’s score is unique and vivacious; I would ne… Actor Trevante Rhodes is open and gregarious. The color-grading and editing are exemplary. In this Oct. 3, 2016 photo, actor Trevante Rhodes, a cast member in the film, "Moonlight," poses at A24 offices in New York. Moonlight is not one thing. Produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Adele Romanski, it focuses on the life of Chiron, an African-American homosexual man struggling with his sexuality and identity while growing up in Miami, Florida. As we saw the same actor… Rhodes, 26, Alex Hibbert, 12, and Ashton Sanders, 20, play the same character at various ages in Barry Jenkins' film about a kid growing up black, gay and confused with his drug addicted mother in Miami. It is an adaptation of Tarell Alvin McCraney's play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. Yet, how they did so remains a mystery. Stoic ambience. Ashton Sanders as Chiron in Moonlight: stalked by the specters of premature death and incarceration. Naomie Harris on the 'Emotional Journey' of Making 'Moonlight' Which brings us to Moonlight’s final conversation, a return to the question of identity. Mar 02, 2017 at 9:53 AM Alex R. Hibbert, who plays young Chiron in the Oscar-winning film "Moonlight," has been cast on the new Showtime series "The Chi," … Watching “Moonlight” and feeling those resonances in it, I have to remind myself that Chiron is a character, the film a fiction. Somehow, the three actors who depict Chiron at different ages, Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Trevante Rhodes portray internal agony so well, they leave the audience with real heartache, specifically toward the end of each act. Chiron gets out of the car, and the two try to act natural as Kevin calls Chiron "Black." Mahershala Ali deserves an Oscar for his role as Chiron’s surrogate father, Juan, and Janelle Monae is stunning as the impenetrable Teresa. (David Bornfriend/A24) The new movie Moonlight is set in Miami in the 1980s, at the height of the war on drugs. Rhodes is … Moonlight is a 2016 American drama film directed by Barry Jenkins. A different actor portrays Chiron in each chapter, observing him as a youngster, in high school and then in his 20s. Ashton Sanders was still a student at Chicago’s DePaul University when he found out that he had nabbed the role of Chiron in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight. But I cringe to call it that. one perspective of many that are reflected in the character of Chiron. Moonlight Chiron (2016) The Skinny Tyler (2016) Straight Outta Compton Kid (2015) The film is told with different actors playing Chiron at different stages of his life. Alex R. Hibbert as Chiron, a young black man growing up gay in an impoverished part of Miami in Moonlight. Did his mother’s (Naomie Harris) drug habits rob his resilience? The stoic ambience they present consummates so abundantly that when the end comes and goes it weighs … ... like Boyhood’s Mason, are considered innocent by default. 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