![]() They feel sad – they’re not jealous or anything – they’re just sad because me and Kevin, the little Kevin – aka Jaden (Piner), were leaving (to do the film). ![]() How does everyone else at school feel about your big break? It’s very weird because you have to transition from a ‘winner’ to – ‘oh, you’re going back to your boring life again!’ It depresses me because I have always wanted to act. So how does all of this fit in with school? You say you’re in drama school, but is there another school that you have to go to, or… Hibbert and Jaden Piner in ‘Moonlight’ // Alex R Hibbert interview Me and Ashton are like, practically brothers, and Trevante is like my homie. That’s weird because your performances are all so good, and so close in terms of how you all act?Īll of us on Moonlight were, and are like a big family and even though we didn t meet while filming, we just love each other. No, I didn’t meet them until we started going on tour and when the awards stuff started to happen. Is it true that you didn’t meet them at all when you were filming? I interviewed Trevante Rhodes and Ashton Sanders a little while ago, who obviously play the same character as you when he’s slightly older. I was born in New York but now I live in Miami. Once we went to the Gotham awards, the first awards ceremony where we won four awards – that was crazy. When you started filming did you have any idea as to how big this would all end up being? It’s a big, big project for your first job. That’s when I noticed that it was kind of weird and when I though, ‘I think I got it.’ The character doesn’t get excited, but he just wanted to see me that way. I remember that Barry kept telling me – ‘I wanna see you do this emotion’ – ‘I wanna see you excited’. It was with Barry (Jenkins, the film’s writer/director) and this other guy who read the script with me. I got two call-backs and that’s when I realised that it was going to be big. I didn’t know that it was going to be that big as we got the audition through school. ![]() I’m in a drama programme and all of the drama boys went for this audition for Moonlight. How did you first get involved in Moonlight?Īlex R. The Hollywood News: Alex, an absolute pleasure to meet you. Read our full Alex R Hibbert interview below. We chatted about drama school, getting the role in the Oscar-nominated film, and travelling around the world to talk about it. Hibbert, the actor who plays the youngest version of Chiron in the film. This past week, we caught up with 12-year-old Alex R. Central to the film are three key performances three actors who assume the character of Chiron. The film chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. In just a couple of weeks, Barry Jenkins’ multi award-winning Moonlightfinally rises into local theatres, and it is simply fantastic in every way you can imagine. Every weekend seems to glisten with the prospect of superb new movies releasing in cinemas, and if you think 2017 is already spent following the releases of La La Land, Manchester By The Sea etc, then you’re wrong. Pin 2 Alex R Hibbert interview: Moonlight’s youngest actor speaks to The Hollywood News about his big break into Hollywood with the multiple Oscar-nominee.Īlex R Hibbert interview conducted by Paul Heath.
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