'Love, Victor' uses the success of 'Love, Simon' to tell a very different coming out story. PRIDE2020
) had privilege many don't, that his liberal, very supportive parents made his coming out the exception, not the norm. But directly acknowledging those critiques is whywriters Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger wanted to return to this world.and the response to it really exceeded all of our wildest dreams. The one common refrain we did hear from people after the movie was that Simon's story was incredibly specific," Aptaker tells ET.
", to create a glossy rom-com that made history as the first major studio film about a gay kid coming out."But there are a number of ways that a kid coming out can look," Aptaker says."Why not use the success of the movie to tell a very, very different version of a coming out story and increase representation for kids who don't have an experience all that similar to Simon?"Enter Victor Salazar.
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