Review J.T. LeRoy (2018)

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A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.



 
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J.T. LeRoy
Director: Justin Kelly (“King Cobra,” “I Am Michael “)
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Diane Kruger, Jim Sturgess, Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Details: One of the most interesting literary scandals of the current century was that of J.T. LeRoy, the fictional male nom-de-plume of thirty-something single mother and “Deadwood” writer Laura Albert. Albert created a fictitious man, a heroin-addicted HIV+ teenage hustler from West Virginia, and got an ‘autobiographical’ book published to great sensation. Albert enlisted the help of her fashion designer sister-in-law Savannah Koop to help her pull off the ruse – Koop turning up at various public events in wigs and sunglasses as JT.

In 2005 the hoax was exposed and led to a recent and fascinating documentary about the level of deceit that was required and executed by the unapologetic and no holds barred writer. That led to this narrative feature adaptation of the story with Laura Dern as Albert and Kristen Stewart as Knoop and hails from filmmaker Justin Kelly who is coming off the Brent Corrigan gay porn murder scandal film “King Cobra”. Should be an interesting take in this age where people have multiple online personas.
 
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One of the most interesting literary scandals of the current century was that of J.T. LeRoy, a heroin-addicted HIV+ teenage hustler that was actually the male nom-de-plume of thirty-something single mother and “Deadwood” writer Laura Albert. Albert enlisted the help of her fashion designer sister-in-law Savannah Koop to help her pull off the ruse – Koop turning up at various public events in wigs and sunglasses as JT. In 2005 the hoax was exposed and here comes the narrative feature adaptation of the story with Laura Dern as Albert and Kristen Stewart as Knoop with filmmaker Justin Kelly directing. Screened at Toronto to decent reviews, Universal is shuffling it out in late March.
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