The HIV comedy starring Troye Sivan that Hollywood refused to touch is finally here
Three Months, which lands on Paramount+ today.Related: What to Watch: Troye Sivan in love, a dance club for the deaf and a Queerty exclusiveThe movie tells the story of Caleb (Troye Sivan), a South Florida teenager exposed to HIV on the eve of his high school graduation.
So begins three months of HIV tests to see if he’s contracted the virus. To wait out the interval, he joins an HIV support group and immediately falls for Estha (Viveik Kalra), a handsome Indian immigrant going through a similar scare.
Over the course of the summer, Caleb must face his own childishness and confront family trauma concerning his grandparents (Ellen Burstyn and Louis Gossett, Jr.) and estranged mother (Amy Landecker).Related: Troye Sivan just teamed up with Beyoncé and fans are obsessedThe script for Three Months first made headlines in 2015 when it landed on the Hollywood Blacklist, a catalog of the 10 best un-optioned scripts in town.
Seven years later, the completed film is finally here. We caught up with Frieder to chat about the project. Here’s what he had to say…So there’s one question I’m dying to ask.
