'Moonlight' trivia and fun facts
How to swim
When Juan teaches Little how to swim, Mahershala Ali is really teaching Alex R. Hibbert how to swim. When production started, Hibbert did not know how to swim.
Winner of 157 prizes
This film is winner of 157 prizes of 224 nominations. Perhaps is one of the favorite for win a Oscar 2017.
Mother
Like Chiron, director Barry Jenkins also had a mother who suffered from addiction.
Childhood
Director Barry Jenkins was inspired by his own childhood in Miami, where he was "always surrounded by this very lush green grass and these beautiful golden sunsets." He grew up in "an awesome neighborhood where some very dark things happened." He feels as though his childhood was "a beautiful struggle."
Barry Jenkins nominated as Best Director
Barry Jenkins is a fourth black filmmaker nominated in the Best Director category (Oscar nomination).
Naomie Harris
Naomie Harris shot her entire role in three days in between her promotional tour of Spectre 007 (2015).
Acclaimed by the critics
'Moonlight' has 9,9 of punctuation on Metacritic.
Based on the unproduced play
The film is based on the unproduced play "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" by MacArthur Fellow Tarell Alvin McCraney.
No influence
In an interview, Barry Jenkins said that the three actors who play Chiron never met during production. He wanted each of them to build their own persona of Chiron during their respective segments, with no influence from the other portrayals. The same technique was used with the actors who play Kevin.
Three acts
Naomie Harris is the only actor to appear in all three acts of the film.