When I was growing up, you were taught it’s not masculine to express your emotions.” Just talking about your emotions doesn’t have that stigma for them – though I am not sure that’s the same in the rest of the world. “My nephews are 12 and nine and they are more encouraged to be emotionally expressive than I was. “In LA and New York it’s now far more liberal and progressive,” he says. The coming generation have got better at that. There was more evasion, more suppression, more sublimation. He remembers that, 25 years ago, kids were, in his world, less able to talk about their troubles. Hill was keen to root the film in a particular era. Some of these things were what I imagined was happening to friends of mine.” Suppression I was very affected by skateboarding and the people I met along the way. But a lot of these things did happen to me. “Again, you can read on a sheet what my background is, but we don’t really know one another’s background,” he says. His younger sister, Beanie Feldstein, is currently receiving raves for Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart.

Dad was an accountant for Guns N’ Roses (really).

But I’m looking at Jonah’s background and he seems to have lived a more comfortable life than that of his protagonist.

We tend to assume such things are autobiographical.

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