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Lucas Hedges (born December 12, 1996) is an American actor. A son of filmmaker Peter Hedges, he studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Hedges began his acting career with a supporting role in Wes Anderson's comedy-drama Moonrise Kingdom (2012). He had his breakthrough in 2016 playing a sardonic teenager in Kenneth Lonergan's drama Manchester by the Sea, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hedges then starred as an aggressive youth in an off-Broadway production of Yen and had supporting roles in the coming-of-age film Lady Bird and the drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in 2017. In 2018, Hedges played the lead role of a teenager forced into a gay conversion therapy program in Boy Erased, which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama. He also made his Broadway debut in a revival of Lonergan's drama The Waverly Gallery in the same year. In 2023, he starred in a West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lucas Hedges, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Lucas Hedges
John Densmore
for John Densmore in The Doors: Break On Through (Biopic)
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The film, "The Doors: Break On Through," is a non-linear, impressionistic journey through the brief, incandescent career and chaotic life of Jim Morrison and The Doors. Beginning with the band's formation in the mid-1960s at UCLA Film School—where the poet Jim Morrison met the jazz-influenced keyboardist Ray Manzarek—the story explores their shared vision to merge rock music with high art, poetry, and shamanistic performance. The narrative focuses intensely on the band's creative core: Manzarek's classically trained arrangements, Robby Krieger's flamenco-infused guitar, and John Densmore's jazz-rock rhythms providing the perfect, dark canvas for Morrison’s volatile, charismatic genius. The central conflict is the rapid, devastating deterioration of Jim Morrison. The film follows the band's ascent to global fame through electric hits like "Light My Fire," while simultaneously documenting Morrison’s descent into alcoholism, drug use, and an increasingly destructive stage persona fueled by his obsession with being a "Lizard King" and a cultural icon. It delves into the infamous controversies—the stage arrests, the obscenity trial—that defined the era. The story culminates in Morrison's self-imposed exile to Paris and his untimely death at 27, leaving behind a legacy of revolutionary music and a profound, cautionary tale about the price of mythic artistic freedom.
