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Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor, director, writer, and producer. He has appeared in the films Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Black Mass (2015), Loving (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), and Red Sparrow (2018) and The King (2019). In 2015, Edgerton received a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film for The Gift, a psychological horror-thriller film Edgerton wrote, directed, co-produced, and in which he co-starred. Edgerton garnered further critical acclaim for his performance as Richard Loving in the 2016 historical drama Loving, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 2018, he wrote, directed and starred in the drama Boy Erased, about gay conversion therapy. In 2019, he starred and co-wrote The King.
The movie starts with a violent shooting at an Orlando gay club, and it's told through a long flashback. Shakir Hassan, nicknamed "Chuck", is a young Florida-based police cadet of Muslim faith and Afghan origin with a strained relationship with his conservative parents. He develops an unrequited crush for a male academy mate. He marries a woman and becomes a security guard,, but keeps going to the same Orlando gay club several nights. At the end, we find out Chuck made the shooting to happen, and, after killing several patrons, he's gunned down by police officers.
