It's the 12-year-old actor's big screen debut. And he's judged a lot about his sexuality and who he likes and what he likes.' 'He's a not an understood boy,' says Alex R. Chiron ends up cowering inside a boarded-up crack house.
We first meet Chiron as a 10-year-old boy, getting chased by bullies through the streets of the city's impoverished Liberty City neighborhood. It's an authentic, intimate portrait of a young, gay black man whose mother is a crack addict. The new movie Moonlight is set in Miami in the 1980s, at the height of the war on drugs. The film is told with different actors playing Chiron at different stages of his life. Hibbert as Chiron, a young black man growing up gay in an impoverished part of Miami in Moonlight.
