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Breaking Baz: Ben Whishaw Reunites With Director Ira Sachs To Portray 1980s Photo Artist Peter Hujar; Star Talks Oscar-Chasing Short ‘Good Boy’ & Netflix Thriller ‘Black Doves’


EXCLUSIVE: Ben Whishaw will reunite with director Ira Sachs to shoot an “intimate” movie about photo artist Peter Hujar. Until his death from AIDS in 1987, Hujar was a leading figure in the group o…

Passages has been enjoying awards season attention with Rogowski bagging the best actor prize from the New York Film Critics Circle — in fact I just saw him the other night at an event for the picture out here in Los Angeles. Glastonbury, famous for the music festival that carries its name, is an area that’s said to lie on ancient mystic ‘ley lines.’ I swear those ‘lines’ channeled some sort of charge through the screen as I watched the film. However, Whishaw’s in no doubt about portraying Peter Hujar opposite Stella Schnabel ( Russian Doll, At Eternity’s Gate) in Ira Sach’s film once Black Dove is completed.

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