There have been a few moments in his life, Tarell Alvin McCraney tells me, when he has felt like he’s hit the clock in a game of chess, and stopped the world turning. McCraney was small for his age, and bullied at school for being different, for being silent, for not being into sports. McCraney wrote the script that became the basis for Moonlight at Yale, as part of a postgraduate theatre course in 2003. He titled it: “In Moonlight, Black Boys Look Blue”. Photograph: Courtesy of Tarell Alvin McCraneyIf McCraney never resolved that relationship, he is grateful to the film for capturing the essence of his love for the murdered Blue.

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2017 08:00 UTC