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    With the gay conversion therapy drama 'Boy Erased,' Joel Edgerton hopes to stir hearts and change minds

    by Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times Nov 02, 2018 5 minutes

    TELLURIDE, Colo. - After making a splash with his 2015 directorial debut, the dark, unnerving thriller "The Gift," Joel Edgerton got sent his fair share of suspense scripts. But true to his unpredictable form, the Australian actor turned filmmaker wanted to go in a completely different direction with his next project.

    "A large part of what the film business is about is following in the footsteps of something that seems to work, but I've never had that attitude as an actor," Edgerton, 44, said back in September at the Telluride Film Festival, where his latest film, the gay conversion therapy drama "Boy Erased," made its world premiere. "For my next project after 'The Gift,' I wanted to put something positive and moving into the world."

    Based on the memoir by Garrard Conley, "Boy Erased" stars Lucas Hedges as a young man who is pressured by his deeply religious

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