When Teenage Kicks director Craig Boreham set about casting his latest feature Lonesome, which enjoys its Australian premiere as part of this year’s Sydney Film Festival (SFF) he hit on an unusual approach to ensure it was appropriately queer.
No, this isn’t a gross casting couch scenario, though you can’t blame star Daniel Gabriel for being unsure at first. ‘I convinced them that I was legit, that I had a film on Netflix, and they checked it out,’ Boreham chuckles. ‘We went and had a coffee, and they had a lot of insights into the character.’
