Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, a highly successful stage production tracing a young queer man’s unflinching fight against the world to make a career as a drag queen, has now been made into a film. Directed by Jonathan Butterell, who directed the stage musical and now makes his feature film debut, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is inspired by a real-life story and adapted from the BBC Three documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16. What made you want to turn your stage production Everybody’s Talking About Jamie into a film? The decision to make Everybody’s Talking About Jamie into a film came very early on. What do you make of it and how will Everybody’s Talking About Jamie make a strong case for inclusion?

Source: The Telegraph September 16, 2021 23:39 UTC