Blue Film: Boots star Kieron Moore is a gay camboy in crisis in first trailer for polarising new movie
Moore plays a fin-dom sex worker crossing paths with an old high school teacher in the shocking film, rejected by multiple film festivals before landing at Edinburgh last year
Kieron Moore plays a gay sex worker facing a long, dark night of the soul in the first trailer for controversial new movie Blue Film.
The Boots actor appears in the harrowing drama – rejected by multiple film festivals before premiering at Edinburgh Film Festival last year – alongside House of Cards star Reed Birney.
As reported by Out, some audience members walked out of the Edinburgh screening, owing to the film’s uncomfortable themes and discussions about child sexual abuse.
The film has nevertheless earned very strong reviews from film critics, including in industry bibles Hollywood Reporter, Variety and IndieWire.
In it, Moore plays camboy and fin-dom Aaron, whose cocky demeanour begins to crack when it emerges his latest client is his old high school teacher Hank, played by Birney.
“I didn’t know if I could do it – but I also didn’t want anyone else doing it” – Kieron Moore on Blue Film
Speaking to i-D about the role last year, Kieron, also known for roles in Vampire Academy and Masters of the Air, said: “I didn’t know if I could do it. But I also didn’t want anyone else doing it.”
Describing screenings of the film he has attended, Kieron added: “The interesting thing is that you can hear a pin drop. No one eats popcorn when they watch it. No one sips their drink. I mean it.”
In his review for Variety, Guy Lodge said “Blue Film is an unabashed provocation, but not a hollow one,” adding: “Moore gives a lithely physical performance, fully convincing as an entitled object of mass fascination whose swagger is nonetheless a pose – crumpling easily into boyish uncertainty when no one’s gaze is on him.”
Blue Film, which is directed by Elliot Tuttle, hits US cinemas on 8 May.