The Imitation Game (Photo : Twitter/ Graham Moore)
When he accepted his Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 2015 Oscars, "The Imitation Game" writer Graham Moore talked about committing suicide and being weird and different.
In his speech, Moore revealed that he tried to commit suicide when he was 16. He said he reminded kids out there who feel they do not fit in anywhere that they do.
"Stay weird. Stay different," Moore said. "And then when it's your turn and you are standing on this stage, please pass the same message along."
After the 2015 Oscars night, Moore talked to reporters and made it clear that he is straight.
"I'm not gay," Moore told BuzzFeed. "But I've never talked publicly about depression before or any of that and that was so much of what the movie was about and it was one of the things that drew me to Alan Turing so much."
According to Moore, "we all feel like weirdos for different reasons," of which he and Turing had their share, and that is what always moved him so much about Turing's story.
Moreover, Moore admitted that he had his 2015 Oscars speech planned out loosely. Considering himself "incredibly superstitious," he said he had it loosely in his head.
Moore said he felt weird getting on the stage and saying the things that he has been imagining in the shower and in front of mirrors when he was a teenager.
Previously, "The Imitation Game" director Morten Tyldum explained why the movie lacked gay sex scenes. He told The Guardian he does not have to have a sex scene in a movie to prove that a character is gay.
