Ben Platt breaks silence on the critisim he received for the Dear Evan Hansen film
Ben Platt has opened up about the backlash he faced for starring in the Dear Evan Hansen movie adaptation. In 2021, Broadway fans flocked to cinemas to watch the highly anticipated film – which saw Platt reprise his role as the titular character.
Like its source material, the movie follows Evan, “an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social media age.” At the recommendation of his therapist, he starts writing letters to himself to cope with his anxiety.
However, the letter is stolen by his fellow classmate Connor Murphy (Colton Ryan), who is also dealing with isolation and loneliness.
When Connor dies by suicide, his mother (Amy Adams) and stepfather (Danny Pino) mistakenly believe that he wrote the letter to Evan, who ultimately inserts himself into Connor’s past in a series of “inspiring, duplicitous and confrontational events.
