Ponyboi
Summary
Few movies have fare out of 2024 ’s Sundance Film Festival with as much ground - base buzz asPonyboi , a project that has been geezerhood in the making for author and star River Gallo . What began life as a short in 2019 has finally become a feature - length film directed by Esteban Arango . Gallo play the titular Ponyboi , an hermaphrodite sex worker whose job at a launderette is a front for pimp Vinny ( Dylan O’Brien ) to deal drug as well as love .
take billet around Valentine ’s Day , the movie kicks into gamey power train when a dead customer threatens to destroy Ponyboi ’s livelihood — and life . Knowing that Vinny will have his revenge , Ponyboi prepares to run for away and potentially even reach home before the dying of an alienated parent . Amidst the pile of gangsters and dissatisfied business , the cast does include a few friendly faces : Victoria Pedretti ( perhaps best known asLove Quinn inYou ) , Indya Moore ( Pose ) , and Murray Bartlett ( The White Lotus ) .
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Screen RantinterviewedPonyboicast members Pedretti , Moore , and Kevin Matthew McDonald while atSundance Film Festival . The trio praised Gallo ’s screenwriting talent and passionateness in front of and behind the cameras , as well as shared a small brainstorm into the New Jersey pack backdrop of the motion picture .
Ponyboi Cast Celebrates Film At Sundance
Victoria Pedretti
Screen Rant : What speak to you most aboutPonyboi ?
Victoria Pedretti : I was activated to do a Mob story . I was obsess with the Godfather movies as a fry , which is a unlike worldly concern , for sure . But I love New Jersey so much . Then the story , and then the characters , and then River ! There was so much to fall in honey with .
River is not only your scene partner in this but also a producer and author . How did you feel their involvement elevated the experience ?
Victoria Pedretti : I hope to God that when you write , sensation in , and produce a picture , it ’s very important to you . I intend , it ’s unbelievable to act with people who are passionate about stories that they want to tell and have vision .
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Indya Moore
Screen Rant : Ponyboihas a fascinating premise , but what support out to you most when you first scan the screenplay ?
Indya Moore : One of the things that really connected me to Ponyboi was that Ponyboi ’s desire to be loved was so powerful , so strong , and so necessary that they were vulnerable to mass who wanted to take reward of them , and then hurt other people . I think sometimes , when you ’re in a place where you ’ve been so deprive of love , you will take it anywhere you could get it — even if it ’s not really have it away , and it just feels like it . You want to state yourself it is because really , really require it .
That is what I assemble from Ponyboi , and that is what I ’ve experienced so much of in my life and have had to heal out of . I ’ve had to heal out of that use and that harm and that round . I love that Ponyboi brings that tale to life , and also that it ’s so clearly an experience that trans and gynandromorph citizenry all share — and a lot of the great unwashed do . It ’s an experience we know we have in vulgar , but I know that a lot of a sight of other multitude know what that feels like . I hope that ’s something they can empathize with in this picture show , and I trust that something about this film can heal the part of them that just wants to be loved — and also the part of them that want multitude to be loved .
Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.
You were spotted onthe lot ofThe Sandmanand my sprightliness has not been the same since . Is there anything you could bring out about your character or experience ?
Indya Moore : I ’m grateful , and I hope people like the tale that we ’re telling .
Kevin Matthew McDonald
Screen Rant : River is not only a scene partner in this but also a producer and author . How did you feel their involvement elevated the experience ?
Kevin Matthew McDonald : It was vast . Because when I first got messaged to be a part of this movie , I did n’t know a lot of the multitude involved . I did n’t know Esteban , and I did n’t know River , so I did my inquiry . I looked it up , and then I came across Ponyboi the brusk . I determine that , and I was like , " Whoa , okay . It ’s 18 minutes . They ’re run to make this into a feature article film ? " I said , " Okay , I do n’t know where I fit in , " but I know I was gon na be this big , shuddery goon guy . I was like , " I ’m very curious . "
Then I got institutionalise the book . Normally , when I get bring on , I get little bits and pieces , or stunt study here and there . I ’m just separate what to do . But I get this vast book , so I was like , " You know what ? I ’ve never read this sort of script . Let me interpret the script , top to bottom . " I read the whole thing . I ’ll be honest , I ’m more of a movie guy than a book guy , and I like to seat back and mind rather than read . But I start read , and it became almost like binge - see a show . " What ’s next ? This is crazy . And then what befall ? " I ’m just realize I ’m in this , and then it occur up to my part . I was mess up off and so thrilled to be asked to be a part of this . Initially , I come in thinking it was just some tiny one - off . Then I just keep reading more , and I was like , " Oh , I ’m in this scenery too . I ’m in this damn movie ! "
I ’ve done a hatful of TV , and I ’ve never had the joy of doing a characteristic film . This is my first one , and my first time at Sundance . It ’s a mickle of firsts for me , so it ’s very , very limited to me . Working with River , seeing River ’s idea from the forgetful to the whole script , and then to be on determine and see the sight fare to lifespan ? It ’s beyond inspirational . I told River multiple times , " You are a brilliance . A actual genius . I ’m not just saying that to congratulate you . " It ’s truly motivating and inspirational for someone to have this idea , and then go through the footmark , and we ’re here justly now . I ’m here right now , looking and talk to you , all because of someone ’s thought . It ’s incredible .
About Ponyboi
unfold over the class of Valentine ’s Day in New Jersey , a young intersex sex doer must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways , pull him to face his past .
Ponyboi bust off the screen in this bombastic , edgy , and campy roller - coaster ride of a film . flip over the playscript on the LGBTQIA+ return home tale and the classical Jersey mobster saga , this neon - soaked story is not only full of action but also pure moments of tenderness . Complicated and uproarious , Ponyboi ’s journey exposes a kaleidoscope of ways world is sugary sweet under hard surfaces . background of laundromats , diners , and the Jersey Shore create a heightened sense of place and fourth dimension that is at once precisely transportative and fabulously fanciful .
Ponyboipremiered on January 20 at Sundance Film Festival and is currently seeking dispersion .
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