How a 30-Year-Old Mastermind Fooled an Entire High School Into Thinking He Was a Teen—And What It Means for Trust in the Digital Age
In previous interviews, you’ve said that, because you were so concerned about kids finding out you were gay, you didn’t necessarily spend time trying to figure out if Brandon wasn’t who he said he was. Your sexuality isn’t mentioned in My Old School, but do you think that hiding a secret in school yourself gave you more compassion for what Brandon might have been going through?
[My sexuality] is infused through the film, but I never wanted the film to be focused on me. I would absolutely say being the gay kid at school — or just being the gay kid growing up — gives you a certain sensitivity to what it’s like to be different, to be the odd one out. And God knows it’s been an at-times painful experience for me making this film, because I’ve agonized over all of my classmates: “Am I doing the right thing? Am I telling the story in the right way — in the most faithful, sensitive way to them?” So yeah, there’s definitely connections to that.
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