'Boy Erased' Star Lucas Hedges: I'm 'Not Totally Straight' but 'Not Gay...Not Bisexual'

In a new profile piece for New York Magazine, actor Lucas Hedges discusses his upcoming gay conversion therapy drama "Boy Erased," in which he stars, and opens up about his own sexuality.

In the story, written by Kyle Buchanan, Hedges, 21, acknowledges that because he will play a young man struggling with his gay identity in the film, he will be asked to discuss his own sexuality.

"I owe it to this part to speak as honestly as possible," he told the publication. "In the early stages of my life, some of the people I was most infatuated with were my closest male friends. That was the case through high school, and I think I was always aware that while for the most part I was attracted to women, I existed on a spectrum."

He then reflects on his sixth-grade health teacher calling sexuality a broad range where many people fall in hard to define categories between straight and gay.

"I felt ashamed that I wasn't 100 percent because it was clear that one side of sexuality presents issues, and the other doesn't as much," Hedges said. "I recognize myself as existing on that spectrum: Not totally straight, but also not gay and not necessarily bisexual."

Hedges added to New York Magazine: "People expect you as an actor to have a voice that's set in some way, and that's really not what I am. I'm very much within the conflict and confusion of my own life, still, and I definitely feel a pressure to step up in a way. I prefer to step up in my art, and I don't entirely know how to in my life."

Hedges, who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Manchester by the Sea," also played a closeted gay high schooler in "Lady Bird" last year.

Based on Garrard Conley's memoir of the same name, "Boy Erased" is directed by Joel Edgerton, who also stars in the film alongside Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, pop star Troye Sivan, Cherry Jones, director Xavier Dolan, Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea, Joe Alwyn and more.

It had its debut on Sept. 1 at the Telluride Film Festival and hits theaters on Nov. 2.

Click here to read the full New York Magazine profile on Hedges and revisit the "Boy Erased" trailer by clicking here.