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As Aaron Eagle, a cocky fetish camboy adored by a devoted, paying legion of cash-pigs – or, as he calls them, his “fa**ots” – Kieron Moore couldn't have asked for a more challenging feature-film debut. “He’s an actor’s dream,” the British star, who memorably rose to queer fame on Netflix's BOOTS, tells Gay Times. “He has such a complexity to him that it’s really hard to find that in other characters when auditions and scripts come through. Not to say that the writing’s bad in any way, it’s just that I got a real luxury with playing him.”

But beneath Aaron’s hunky, sexually charged exterior is a character whose carefully constructed persona begins to shatter when he encounters a masked, older follower in Blue Film – one who is eventually revealed to be his former middle school teacher, played by the legendary Reed Birney. We’ll refrain from spoilers but take it this way: earlier this year, i-D described Elliot Tuttle’s directorial debut as “scarier than any straight horror this year”. Letterboxd reviews have also branded Blue Film as “truly audacious” and “highly provocative and uncomfortable”, while one viewer said it “made Pillion feel like Love, Simon.” And, if you’re into it: “Some of the best cock and balls sound effects I’ve ever heard.” 

All of that is touched upon in the following interview with Kieron Moore – bar the latter, sorry – as he discusses delving into Aaron’s psyche, his own connection to the character’s love of the camera, and, simply, why the story of Blue Film is important to tell.

Kieron, you are incredible in this film. I saw Blue Film described somewhere as “the scariest non-horror film of the year” and, as a horror fan, I was skeptical that it would live up to that description… 

You’ll like my next film, potentially! Yeah, it’s a real-life horror isn’t it? I’m a big fan of all kinds of art – I think we should have every kind of genre movie. This film is deeply challenging; it’s so human that it’s scary. It’s not the monsters under the bed, it’s the monsters in the house. That is, ultimately, terrifying and deeply uncomfortable. Elliot and Ryan, our DLP, have done such a good job at trapping you within the frame of the characters.