In this exclusive clip from Lilies Not For Me, Fionn O’Shea’s lead character reminisces on an intimate encounter with a friend.
Directed and written by Will Seefried in his feature film debut, the upcoming historical queer drama explores gay conversion therapy in 1920s England, with O’Shea and Erin Kellyman respectively playing a gay novelist and psychiatric nurse who “form an unlikely friendship over a series of doctor-prescribed ‘dates'”. “Through their conversations, he tells her the story of his relationship with an old friend which spiraled out of control when they turned to a risky procedure to cure themselves of their forbidden feelings for one another,” reads the synopsis.
Ahead of its release, GAY TIMES has an exclusive look at a scene from the film, which sees Owen (O’Shea) dance with a new friend called Charles (Hofmann) in a flashback as he remembers his past to nurse Dorothy (Kellyman), while Philip (Aramayo) looks on.
O’Shea is best-known to queer audiences for his leading role in Handsome Devil (2016), in which he starred opposite Red, White & Royal Blue star Nicholas Galitzine.